Search Results: Travel & Exploration from Lawrence Jones

Guildford: Globe Pequot Press, 2004. xix, 227 pages, illustrated throughout with full colour photos, double-page map. There is a line in yellow highlighter towards the centre of the lower page edges. Illustrated light card cover. The book explores the planet's premier surfing playgrounds. It contains first-hand descriptions of the areas with detailed analysis of the breaks; information on hazards, skill level required, and which boards to bring; quick-reference charts with the average swell size, air and water temperature, wetsuit requirements, and the average number of days per month you can charge the waves; and suggestions for where to stay, how to find each break, and avoiding the crowd.. First Edition/First Printing. Soft Cover. Fine. 4to.

Woodhill, NSW.: Windward Publications, 2016. 256pp, index,maps/charts, col ills.Or pictorial card covers. As new in publisher's original plastic cover. The Great Barrier Reef from Scawfell Island, the southern gateway, through over 100 islands to Bowen through the heart of the marine park by the shortest course.. Eleventh Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Illus. by Colfelt, Carolyn.. 4to.

Woodhill, NSW.: Windward Publications, 1993. 256pp, index,maps/charts, col ills.Or pictorial card covers with integral flaps. Near new. The Great Barrier Reef from Scawfell Island, the southern gateway, through over 100 islands to Bowen through the heart of the marine park by the shortest course.. Fourth Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Colfelt, Carolyn.. 4to.

Auckland: Reed Methuen, 1988. 240pp, bw ills, maps. Or card covers. Prev owners name on half title, rear cover rubbed. 101 bush walks in New Zealand.. Revised & Expanded Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Salt Lake City: Big Moon Traders, 1997. 263pp, index, line drawings, maps. Or pictorial card covers. Very light edge wear to covers. The Day-by-Day trek of the Mormon pioneers from Nauvoo, IL to Utah.. First Thus. Paperback. Fine. Illus. by Noyce, Robert R.; Carter, Richard F. (maps). Oblong 8vo.

New York: Harper Perennial, 2006. 650pp, index, notes, appendices, col plates, line drawings,maps. Or card covers. Front cover creased with slight edge wear, light toning to page edges. Evidence that the Chinese voyaged to America in 1421seventy years before Columbus, and also that they circumnavigated the world acentury before Magellan. Originally presented in a series by PBS.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Perth: Rio Bay Enterprises, 1999. x, 142pp + 4pp maps at rear, index, bibliography, mapsbw ills, adendum. Or card covers. Very light edge wear. The first discovery of Australia in 1606 and life of its discoverer, Willem Janszoon. Also explores the possible Dutch exploration of the East Coast of Australia, and of the Batavia being part of a fleet sent to take possession of the continent.. Revised Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Perth: Rio Bay Enterprises, 1997. 111, 139pp + epilogue at rear, index, bibliography, maps, bw ills, adendum. Or card covers. Heavily foxed at bottom edge extending to lower portion of pages, underlining in foreword. The first discovery of Australia in 1606 and life of its discoverer, Willem Janszoon. Also explores the possible Dutch exploration of the East Coast of Australia, and of the Batavia being part of a fleet sent to take possession of the continent.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo.

London: Richard Bentley, 1834. 2 volumes-complete. xv, 440; vii, 428pp, engraved frontis to each volume, errata slip. Contemporary half red morocco on marbled boards, marbled endpaper and edges. Ex Queensland Geological Survey library with their bookplate over an earlier personal bookplate both partially covered by card pocket, minimal handwritten cataloguing information inside, and paper label to spine of each volume. Heavy toning to frontispieces and margins of many pages. A very attractive set.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society., 1968. HEAVY. 3 VOLUME SET (complete). xvi, 423pp, appendices; v, pp425-819, appendices, folding map; v, pp821-1175, index ,supplement, family tree, appendices, bibliography, annotated calendar, table of events. Blue cloth in jackets. All jackets are price clipped with some foxing. The pages have minor foxing to page edges.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Hogarth Press, 1935. Preface by Ethel Smyth. 219pp, frontispiece and 27 b/w plates plus 12 full-page portraits of monks, seven appendices, glossary, two maps of Mount Athos on the front end-papers. Prelims, endpages and page edges toned and foxed. Decorative green cloth boards, gilt, stained and worn with tears to the cloth at the lower front corner and at the head and foot of the toned and stained spine. The author's pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain, Mount Athos and its monasteries.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo.

Secaucus: Chartwell Books Inc, 1990. 127 pages, illustrated throughout with color photos, glossary, index, end-paper maps. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. 'A broad spectrum of places have been abaondoned over the centuries for different reasons, such as natural disaster, social strife, and the abandonment of emptied gold mines.The authors give a description of what each site was like in its heyday, with examples from all over the world, the reasons its original inhabitants abandoned it, and what the site is like today [1990s].. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press., 2006. xxx, 150pp, index, bibliography, num bw & col ills. Or pictorial card covers. Small corner crease to front cover, several pages with very small corner creases. Contemporary and historical sites in DAarwin that reveal the economic, cultural, social and historical contributions of the Aboriginal people to the city.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Small 4to.

London: Longmans, 1969. xi, 208 pages, b/w photo plates, map. Papered boards in price-clipped, rubbed and lightly edge-worn dust-jacket which has lost a section of its upper edge (1 x 5 cm) by the spine head. The 476-day first surface crossing of the frozen Arctic Ocean, achieved by the author and his three companions, and 34 huskies, on their journey from Alasaka to Spitzburgen.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good Plus. 8vo.

Oyster Bay, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1915. 202pp, , pictorial endpapers. Or mid blue cloth decorated in gold and white. Volume in the Outing Adventure Library dealing with travels in Mexico in the days of the Mexican War (1846). Ruxton travelled from Vera Cruz to Chihuahua and the account of his travels makes a fascinating window into old Mexico.. Edition Not Stated.. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo.

New York: Garden City Publishing, 1931. xx, 338pp, bw ills, appendix. Or black cloth lacking jacket. Slight edge wear, light wear to corners, some toning and foxing to page edges. Account of the travels and adventures of the author in both polar regions, Africa, Pitcairn Island, Pacific, the Americas and Malaya. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. vii, 292pp, end-paper maps. Prev owner's name at the centre of the front flyleaf (map affected). Fore-edge uncut. Blue cloth boards, silver titles on the front board and on the spine. The author gives an 'airplane-view of the republics and most of the colonies which fringe and dot the Caribbean'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

London: Allen Lane, 1982. 336 pages, 24 pages of b/w illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. Spine slightly cocked. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. Based upon 'the explorers' letters and diaries and the printed records of their journeys, the book provides an illuminating impression of the continent and its inhabitants as they appeared to Europeans before the age of colonialism changed both for ever'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1983. 336pp, index, bibliography, maps, bw ills. Or blue boards with blue cloth spine in jacket. Front flap creased, spine slightly faded. An excellent overview of early African exploration. Using letter. diaries and printed records of Mungo Park, James Bruce, Richard Burton, John Speke, Livingstone, Stanley and others the author gives a gripping account of the search for the sources of the Nile, NIger, Congo and other rivers of Africa. Also presents a fascinating picture of the slave trade, desert nomads, canibals, pygmies and wild animals. An illuminating view of pre-colonial Africa.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Random House, 1991. 225pp, endpaper maps. Or white papered boards with olive cloth spine, in jacket. Jacket price clipped with very slight edge weat and slightest of fading to spine. Matthiessen shares his journeys in Africa over many years, and shows us vanishing worlds. Along the way we are made aware of the human lives oppressed by bankrupt political regimes and threatened by the ravaging of land and wildlife.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo.