Search Results: Geography from Lems Bookshop

An engrossing and comprehensive history in four parts; overview, regional variations, politics of specific regions around 1850, and broad look at the transition Africa underwent with the arrival of the colonial powers. 483 pages and an index with 10 maps. Book in very good+ condition with previous owners name crossed out on front endpaper and light tanning. Dust jacket in good condition with small pieces missing top and bottom spine, small tear top back and top edge, some minor knocks and chips, and some rubbing (see photo).

The author's stories of his great rivers: Nile, Zambezi, Yangtze Kiang, Ganges, Murray, Volga, Danube, Mississippi, St Lawrence, Amazon. 159 pages with 22 black and white photographs. Book in near fine condition, Dust jacket in very good condition with yellow dot on front and minor knocks and wear (see photo).

Antarctica, a cold, white wonderland of ice fields, glaciers, and bare mountain peaks, its land surface a dry desert with meagre flora of mosses, lichens and algae but it is surrounded by the world's richest ocean - the feeding ground for petrels, skuas, gulls, terns, cormorants, penguins, seals and whales. 171 pages with over 200 colour photographs and artwork. Book in good+ condition with small split top section inside front and back cover, otherwise fine. Dust jacket in good condition with some pieces missing and tears front and back and wear to edges (see photo).

The main facts about the Atlantic Ocean, how it was discovered and used, how did trade develop and what conflicts arose, what societies and nations have arisen and what are the present prospects and future hopes. 479 pages with 10 illustrations and endpaper maps. Book in very good+ condition with light tanning. No dust jacket.

The author presents the first rigorously explored Atlantis theory - a site that matches Plato's description of the fabled land but is in the Bolivian Andes, South America. 208 pages with numerous illustrations throughout mostly in colour. Book in as new condition.

For the first time Egyptian culture presented in the form of an atlas with substantial text, photographs and drawings - taking the reader on a journey down the Nile calling at some 90 sites. 240 pages with 36 maps, 530 illustrations, 380 in colour. Book in very good+ condition with some foxing on first page. Dust jacket in very good+ condition with minor wear. This is a large book (30.5x24x2.5 cm) but no increase in postage in Australia

Some of the most stunning and important maps from five centuries of atlases accompanied by insightful commentary. 160 pages with colour illustrations on nearly all pages. Book in near fine condition with small knock bottom spine, otherwise as new. Dust jacket in very good condition with small tear and knock top spine and small tear back bottom. This is a large book but no increase in postage in Australia.

First thirteen years of publication 1986 - 1998, quarterly magazine each year bound in blue boards except 1998 in special folder. All in fine condition with numerous colour photographs in each magazine. A separate special folder has maps/supplements. These are heavy items per year - two years per post bag so will need 7 bags at $12.70/bag = $89 but I will pay $29, you pay $60. However if you are in Adelaide I will deliver to you. Contact me.

The story of the Middle East, from the remote past to the immediate present, and speculates on its future. 376 pages with 16 pages of illustrations and 7 maps and map on end papers. Book in very good+ condition with previous owners name and address on first blank page. Dust jacket in good condition with some chips, dents, tears and wear (see photo).

Details the World's 193 nations in over 60 maps of astonishing clarity using unique landscape modelling - key global statistics, time zones, geographical comparisons. 192 pages. Book in very good+ condition with top corner of title page cut out, otherwise fine.

Starting with the Earth's early history when the planet was bombarded by asteroids and comets the author details historic impacts and their geologic aftereffects, examines the formation of caves and major basins, and explains erosion's part in the creation of canyons, and looks at unusual depressions. 200 pages with over 100 photographs, maps and line drawings. Book in very good+ condition ex library with stamps on front and back endpaper and sticker inside back cover. Dust jacket in good+ condition in clear wrapper with sticker on spine and back and minor ?water damage to front (see photo).

The World's Great Explorers Their Triumps and Tragedies. 384 pages with numerous colour and black and white photos throughout and many drawings and maps. Book in very good condition.

How the distinctive features of Australia's landscape were fashioned by nature. Revised edition of the original to incorporate new information and correct statements found wrong in detail with new photographs and maps. 205 pages with 24 pages of black and white photographs and 31 text figures. Book in very good+ condition with some underlining on about twenty pages. Dust jacket in good+ condition with some knocks and wear to edges and booksellers sticker inside front cover.

The Dramatic Tale of how India was Mapped and Everest Named. Rightly hailed as "one of the most stupendous works in the history of science". 182 pages with 31 illustrations including black and white photos and 3 maps. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition.

Why did history unfold so differently on different continents - the author contends that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans and aboriginal Australians. 480 pages 32 pages of black and white photographs and maps in the text. Book in very good+ condition with light tanning.

Subjects range from immediate practical concerns - using maps, coping with changing weather, understanding cities - to broader issues such as the functions of political boundaries, and the scramble for control of the oceans. 336 pages. Book in very good+ condition ex library with stamps om endpapers and title page and sticker on back endpaper. Dust jacket in very good+ condition in clear wrapper with sticker on spine and back.

A survey of a century of the progress of geographers with short biographies of the leading geographers and explorers of the period. 335 pages. Book in very good condition with previous owners stamp and signature on first page and fading. Dust jacket in good condition with some chips and tears (see photo).

The environments and the processes that occur along the world's coastline which provide natural laboratories for investigating the physical, chemical and biological processes that produce the rich diversity of coastal landforms. 354 pages with 200 figures throughout the text. Book in very good condition ex library with a stamp and reference inside back cover. Cover has sticker on spine and back and minor wear to edges.

The scenery, history, buildings and culture of the Lowlands of Scotland. 120 pages with 115 black and white photographs and endpaper maps (first map, North East Lowlands, has half missing). Book in very good condition despite missing page.

Explains the difficulties faced by map-makers and how by stages they achieved proficiency. The mapping of the Earth followed successive discoveries by sea and land and has depended greatly on the work of mathematicians and instrument makers. 64 pages with illustrations on most pages. Book in as new condition.