Search Results: Adventure Travel from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

New York: William Morrow/Sweet Springs Press, 1986 1st ed. 351pp. illus. orange cloth tall 8vo: Very Good in a Fine dj [fore edge shows a few tiny spots; else a crisp copy]

Birmingham, AL: Menasha Ridge Press, 1994 2nd ed. 200pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Very Good. A revised edition originally published in 1991 as "The Appalachian Trail Backpacker’s Planning Guide." The authors hiked the AT end-to-end in 1988.

Boston: Little, Brown/Sports Illustrated Books, 1971 1st ed. SIGNED on both title and half-title pages by author. 283pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Fine in a near Very Good dj in poly cover. An account of adventure on the Colorado and Green Rivers.

Washington, DC: National Geographic Adventure Press, 2000 1st ed. 283pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj [ink gift inscription on colophon page; else nrF' dj = p-c; else F] An American traveler's account of a 10,000-mile bicycle ride around Australia.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009 1st ed. 305pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: near Fine in a near Fine dj [some top edge foxing; rem. line top edge; else a nice crisp copy]; dj = small tear @ spine head; else nrF] A biologist’s adventure in search of the histories behind the mysterious and extinct labrador duck.

New York: Vintage Departures, 1988 reprint. 426pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Very Good [age browning; else a clean, complete & tight copy] The author traveled from London to Peking with minimal equipment, mostly clandestinely, without visas and in disguise as an itinerant Muslim. His 18-month journey cost him only $1,500 because he went native all the way. The reviewer in "The Literary Review" said: "this book contains some of the most exciting travel writing I have ever read."

New York: Little, Brown, 2007 1st ed. 273pp. hardback 8vo: Very Good in a Very Good dj [some roughing of endpp. edges owing to a production flaw; a front cover smudge; else a nice clean, tight and crisp copy] A young woman’s remarkable solo adventure. Jacket praise from William Trevor, Paul Theroux, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, et al.

Calgary: Azimuth, 2000 1st ed. 327pp. illus. paperback 8vo in French flaps: near Fine. Cover praise for this personal account from none other than Sir Edmund Hillary and Sir Wilfred Thesiger.

Topsfield, MA: Salem House, 1989 1st Am. ed. 224pp. illus. hardback small 4to: Fine in a Fine dj [gift stamp on rear pastedown; else F] Another expedition by horseback.

Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1999 1st ed. thus. 224pp. illus. paperback tall 8vo: near Fine [hint of edge foxing; else a nice crisp copy] The story of the search for the missing British mountaineers George Mallory (1886-1924) and Andrew Irvine (1902-24), lost on Mount Everest in 1924.

Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1989 1st ed. 252pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good [edges show foxing; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] Classic vignettes of mountaineering from writers as diverse as Italian POW Felice Beuzzi, photographer Galen Rowell, writer Joe McGinniss, naturalist John Muir, travel writer Eric Newby and Himalayan climbers Tenzing Norgay and Maurice Herzog, among many others.

Da Capo Press, 2003 1st ed. 253pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj [rem. line bottom edge; light top edge foxing; else a nice clean and crisp copy Advance jacket praise from Billie Jean King, Will Steger, et al. for this heavy duty adventure.

London: Scribners, 1990 1st ed. 211pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Fine in a Fine dj.

New York: Penguin, 2019 1st ed. 476pp. hardback tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover.

New York: Knopf, 2005 2nd ptg. 339pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a near Fine dj [top edge foxing; else a nice crisp copy] Front cover praise from Jon Krakauer for this modern day adventure.