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London: Lodestar Books, 2014. First edition. paperback with french flaps. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 239 p. w/ color and b&w illus., kit list and stowage lan, further reading. The adventure memoir of two Royal Marines who followed the Northwest passage across the top of Canada, battling old, ice, and storms in an open boat. Uncommon.
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Blokes Up North : Through the Heart of the Northwest Passage by Sail and Oar
by Oliver, Ken and Tony Lancashire. forword by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston
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Crazy Journey
by Hess, Alan
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London: G. T. Foulis & Co., ca. 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit more so to dust jacket, with a 1 inch tear near spine. 124 p. w/ illustrations. The travel narrative of three Englishmen in a standard A40 Austin, driving from Entebbe Uganda near the equator to Cairo, then from Marseilles to Jokkmokk, Sweden in the Arctic Circle.
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Explorations of Kamchatka: North Pacific Scimitar. Report of a Journey Made to Explore Eastern Siberia in 1735-1741, by Order of the Russian Imperial Government.
by Krasheninnikov, Stephen Petrovich. trans;lated and with an introduction by E. A. P. Crownhart-Vaughan
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Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society, 1972. 1st edition by this publisher. Hardcover in full cloth. Very Good. No dust jacket issued. Quarto ( oversized ). Slight wear to edges and coerns of boards. Name of former owner stamped opposite title page, with some ink bleed across to title page. 374 p. w/ illustrations, maps, illustrated endpapers, notes, select bibliography, index. An attractive, complete, and unabridged English translation of this important work of Russian exploration. The expedition successfully made a good many observations and comments on the native peoples, flora and fauna, , geography and geology, and even linguistics.
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Journal of a Voyage into the Mediterranean by Sir Kenelm Digby, A.D. 1628. Camden Society Old Series, 96, 1868
by Digby, Sir Kenelm. Edited by John Bruce
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New York, NY: AMS Press, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover in blue cloth binding. Very Good without dust jacket. Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards. Slight bumping to heel of spine. 106 pages with footnotes and index. A memoir of Digby's adventures as an English privateer in the Mediterranean.
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The Life of Matthew Flinders
by Estensen, Miriam
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Crows Nest, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thick octavo ( standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. 538 p. w/ illustrations, endnoites, bibliography, index. The life of the naval officer and circumnavigator of Australia Matthew Flinders, who died at the age of 41. He made three exploration voyages to the southern Pacific area and was a good cartographer. He was imprisoned by the French at Mauritius from 1803 - 1809, and his health never recovered. He died before his seminal work A VOYAGE TO TERRA AUSTRALIS was published.
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The Log of the Maryland
by Frazar, Douglas
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Boston: Lee & Shepard, Publishers, 1891. 2nd printing. Hardcover with illustrated spine & front board. Good. Octavo (standard size). Some wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. Corners bumped. Some soiling and spotting to covers. 386 p. w/ illus. An engaging memoir, with some embellishments, of a trading voyage in the bark MARYLAND from Boston (it seems) around the Cape of Good Hope to the Wusong (Woosung) District of Shanghao China in the 1850s, just before the Civil War.
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Memorable Description of the East indian Voyage 1618 - 1625
by Bontekoe, Willem Ysbrantsz [ Ysbrandtszoon ]. Sir E. Denison Ross and Eileen Power, editors. Mrs C. B. Bodde-Hodgkinson and Pieter Geyl, translators. Introduction and notes by Pieter Geyl
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London: George Routledge & Sons, 1929. First thus. Hardcover in full cloth. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Printed in red and black. vii, 168 p. w/ b&w illus. from the original edition, endnotes, index. An attractive modern reprinting of this Dutch voyage to the East Indies, the only one made by this captain. The work details shipwreck, attacks by natives, and various adventures in service. The original manuscript was edited into a better work by the orginal printer, Jan Deutel of Hoorn.
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The Travels of Friedrich Fischer : a Travel Account of a German Wanderbursche from Wiesbaden Germany, by Way of Constantinople and Alexandria to the Holy Land 1839 - 188, Prior to His Settlement in Evansville, Indiana 1849: First edition, first printing
by Fischer, Friedrich (1820 - 1898). translated from the original by Louise Schneider (Louise Caroline Brigitta Fiswcher)
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Webster Groves, MO: Privately Printed, 1962. First edition. Plastic Comb Bound. Very Good. Thin quarto. Some wear to edges and corners of covers. 47 p. w/ additional unnumbered pages that include a 4 page glossary ( primarily geographical), a hand drawn geneology chart, and a well done by amateur large fold out map of southern Euope and the Near East highlighting Fischer's travels, with color added by hand to his outgoing and return routes. An uncommon bit of 19th century travel history, localy produced by the family of the traveler. Fischer, a cabinet maker, traveled to Alexandria via Istanbul, then to Jaffa and on to Jerusalem and elsewhere.
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