Exploration from Black Sheep Books

Wheeler, Oregon: Ekahni Publishing, 2008. Advance Reading Copy. . Pictorial Cover. Very Good-. First U.S. Edition: 150 copies: 50 hard cover and 100 soft cover. Book is an Advance Reading Copy; Advance Reading Copy label has been affixed to the copyright page. Colourfully illustrated glossy hard cover with white titling on front, black titling on white spine, black… Read more about this item

Oslo, Norway: Gyldendal, 1959. Hardcover. Good+ to Very Good-/-. Book is written in Norwegian by Helge Ingstad, noted Norwegian explorer. Brown and tan decorated boards, red cloth spine with gilt titling, illustrated with black and white drawings, plates, maps, and a fold-out two-colour map at back, 592 pages. Wear to edges and corners of boards, spine is sunned… Read more about this item

Salt Spring Island, B.C.: Sir Francis Drake Publications, 2001. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Drawing on newly uncovered evidence, geographer and maritime historian Samuel Bawlf masterfully reconstructs Francis Drakes historic round-the-world expedition, exploring the drama surrounding the voyage and offering intriguing insights into life at sea in the sixteenth century. Red hard cover with gilt titling… Read more about this item

Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good/-. Repertorium Columbianum, Volume XI, Las Casas on Columbus: The Third Voyage. The Repertorium Columbianum is a collection of contemporary sources relationg to Columbus's four voyages. This edition covers Columbus's third voyage in 1498-1500, to Trinidad and the Gulf of Paria, then on to Hispaniola. The writer Bartholome de Las Casas… Read more about this item

London: Andre Deutsch Ltd., 1982. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Charles Allen traces back a legend about a great mountain at the centre of the worldwhere four rivers take their source. He tells the extraordinary story of how a remarkable succession of men took up the challenge to penetrate the hostile, frozen wastelands beyond the Western… Read more about this item

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932. First Edition. . A Hard Cover. Jordan, Charlotte Brewster. An unusual travel book: the story of an American boy accompanying his uncle traveling on business through Spain, tracing Christopher Columbus, exploring the ancient places, seeing documents and relics, watching Columbus coming alive. Grey cloth with black titling and coat of arms on front,… Read more about this item

Bremen: H.M. Hauschild GmbH, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Written in German. Subtitled: Bearbeitung, Kommentierung, begleitende Texte und Fotoauswahl von Anne E. Dunzelmann, mit Beitragen von Viola Konig und Andreas Luderwaldt. Blue boards with silver titling on spine, black and white frontispiece, illustrated throughout with black and white plates. 368 pages. Very light edge wear, previous owner's name… Read more about this item