Search Results: Travel and Adventure from The Owl at the Bridge

New York, Oxford University Press, 1980.. Hard Cover. viii, 246 p., illus., index, 23.5 cm. Bibliography: p. 229-239. English authors during te years 1919-1939 found travel literature a way to support themselves while lining abroad. Fussell discusses such authors as D.H. Lawrence, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Norman Douglas, and numerous others. Stock# 40,144. Vg/ dj vg.

London, Travel Book club, 1958. Hard Cover. 224 p. illus., map, 22 cm. "In the early months of 1957 Hugo Charteris and myslf went by car through West Africa from Dakar to Lagos. Our purpose was to see as many different aspects of the land as possible." Stock #29,710. Vg/ dj good, worn

Brescia, Stab. Tip. Luzzago, 1911. Hard Cover. Guida dei Monti d'Italia. Parte I. Luigi Brasca, Regione Spluga-Bregaglia; II, Guido Silvestri, Regione Codera-Ratti; III, Romano Balabio, Regione Albigna-Disgrazia; IV, Alfredo Corti, Regione Bernina. (155 illustrazioni, 9 cartine a colori). xxxvi, 550 p., 155 photos (some folding), 9 folding color maps; 17.5 cm. Details the central Alps north of Valtellina between Como and Val di Poschiavo. Includes information on geography, topography, bibliography. Olive cloth over flexible boards, stamped in golf & green, grey floral endpapers, red marker ribbon; minor wear, top edge spotted; VG. 37822.

Hardcover. 121 pages, illus.; 21 cm. The Mandalay edition of the works of Rudyard Kipling. Contains Around the World with Kipling; Kipling at Home by Irwin S. Cobb; Rudyard Kipling, a Biographical Sketch by A. P. Cooper; Rudyard Kipling's Place in Literature by R. Le Gallienne; Rudyard Kipling by William Lyon Phelps; Rudyard Kipling as a Frenchman sees him by A. Chevrillon; The Kipling Index. Very Good/ no dust jacket. stock#Lopes016/h.

Harper & Bros. ['Published September, 1915']. . Hard Cover. 'Crown 8vo.' 294 p., 9 color and 8 black & white plates; green cloth covers stamped in gold, top edge gilt; spine faded, front cover spotted, ink inscription inside front cover; VG. Contents include All the Way to Freemantle; To the Jarrah Bush; A Billy of Tea; The Romance of Ol' Dan Dougherty; Coolgardie Forsaken; Neighbors of the Golden Mile; A Day or Two in the Drylands; The Swagman's Story; A Parable of Two Camels; Black Trackers; Lore of the Desert Places; Sydney to Queensland; The King's Highway; A Butcher's Philosophy; A Skeleton Bush; Forty Mile Inn; The Musical Stockman; Troopers of the Outlands; A Nigger in a Hurricane; Across the Coral Sea; Papua; Cannibal Country; Sorcerers' Work; The Invisible Snake; A Spiritualist of Ferguson Island; Thursday Island; Tiger-Shark; Pearl-Shell and Piracy. Stock# 25,257. Travel; antipodes; Australian gold rush; lumbering; Papua New Guinea; South Pacific.

Paris, Editions Alpina [1932]. First Edition. Soft Cover. 155, [5] p. illus. (six from water color), 25 cm. Printed on heavy, deluxe paper. Illustrations in sepia which make this view of Avignon 70 years ago very appealing. Stock #29,108. Good, detached from wrappers/ in illustrated wrappers.

N.Y., Prentice Hall, [1983]. Soft Cover. 304 p. 25.5 cm. Folding map. 'More than 200 color photographs and detailed maps.' Gift inscription on title-page. Stock #100,618. Vg/paperback. Austria Travel

Hamilton, Bermuda Book Stores [1974].. Hard Cover. xxiii, 426 p., index, folding maps; 21.5 cm. Illustrations by Scott White. Maps by Will Onions & Val Bouchard. Stock #29,214. Vg/ dj slightly worn.

London, Collins, 1959. Hard Cover. 384 p., illus., 18.5 cm. "The humour, the poetry, the charm, the picturesque idiom--all the traditional characteristics of the Irish are represented." Stock #29,715. Vg/ dj vg.

Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, 2003. Hard Cover. 271 p., color illus., color maps; 31 cm. Language: Portuguese. Consists of an overall section on the Cape Verde islands and special studies of ten of the islands. ISBN (10): 9722115448. Stock#L207.

London, Hutchinson ['First published 1956']. First Edition. Hard Cover. 'In this book Commander Erroll Bruce gives authentic accounts of many notable oceanic voyages made in small craft-- stories of almost legendary courage and endurance.' Across the Atlantic before Columbus; Over the Uncharted Pacific; Alone Round the World; A Voyage without Skipper or Crew; South of Cape Horn; Escape from the Indian Ocean; An Angry & a Jealous God; Ocean Wanderers; Flaunting the High Seas; Rescue from a Wreck; Courtiers Supreme; Challenge to Poseidon. xi, 164 p., index, photos; 23 cm.; color pictorial dj price-clipped, part of title torn away, bottom of spine torn but present, bookplate; good. 30506.

Yokohama [1965?]. Soft Cover. 69 p., illus., maps, 24.5 cm. Color photos in ring binder. Guide book. Text in English and Japanese. Stock# 34,583.Vg/ stiff paper boeards

Innsbruck/ Wien/Munchen, Verlagsanstalt Tyrolia, 1932. Hard Cover. 199 p. B/w photographs of the Tyrol/Tirol region of the eastern Alps in Germany and, mostly, Austria. Stock #100,800. Good, bound in linen stamped in red; top of spine starting to tear/ no dj. Austria

Krak, Copenhagen [c1970]. 14th edition. Hard Cover. 806 p., index, illus. (mostly photos) incl. color, diagrams; 24.5 cm. In English. Contents include The Monarchy, Symbols, National Anthems; Land & People; Prehistory, History, Language; The Constitution; Government & Administration; Foreign Affairs; Domestic Affairs; The Law; Religion; Defence; Education; Public Finance; Social Security; Family Planning; Health & Hospital Services; Housing & Planning; Transport & Communications; Mass Communications; Currency, Weights, Measures, Thermometers; Trade & Industry; Manpower & Employment; Living Standards; Science, Research, Technology; The Arts; Sport & Games; Bibliography, p. 766-785. Color dj torn; VG. stock#45053.

1945, NY, Viking Press. 'Fifth Printing April 1945'. Hard Cover. 224 p., 4 color double-page plates; 22 cm. "His trips to a jungle hacienda, to the headhunters of the Amazon, to André Roosevelt's newly painted blue ranch house… give Bemelmans a chance to pass in review the high-life of Quito and the home-life of the provinces, before a spectacular background dominated by three volcanoes." Color pictorial dj slightly worn, spine ends chipped; VG. stock#44634.

Lippincott, MCMXXX [1930]. 'First Edition'. First Edition. Hard Cover. With Frontispiece in Colour and 12 Illustrations from Drawings by Frank A. Wallis. 'To see any country, or any part of a country, from its natural waterways is to have its inmost character revealed without reservations... To pursue the course of the Tiber from source to mouth, and to make by canoe as much of that journey as physical conditions would permit, had long been a cherished ambition.' Contents include Ducks and Duck-Boards; The Uppermost Tiber Valley; Pieve San Stefano and the Mountain Towns; Borgo San Sepolcro and the Towns of the Valley; Perugia and Etruscan Remains; Torgiano; Todi; From the Paglia to the Nera; The Campagna. 207 p., index, plates, 23 cm.; tan cloth boards stamped in black & blue; ex library, minor wear, covers spotted; good+. 32984.

London, Methuen [1956]. The English Donald Hall explored Montecassino, Abruzzi, Molise, and the Marche. Hard Cover. 235 pages, index, plates, endpaper map; 22 cm. Good+/ dj worn. Stock#34823.

N.Y., Simon & Schuster, 1956. Hard Cover. xi, 296 p.; 21.5 cm. Memoir of an American writer who lived on the island for a year. Stock #27,944. Vg/ dj worn. .

Inverness : Highlands and Islands Development Board, c1977. Soft Cover. 63 p : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 30 cm Cover title. The beauty of the Highlands and islands of northern and western Scotland is captured in this promotioonal book. Stock# 40,963, Vg/ paper.

London, Methuen [1927]. Hard Cover. xii, 221, 8 p., index, 48 plates; 22.5 cm. "To me Florence is not a city, but a beloved being; I think of her as a person." Stock #27,698. Good+, corners worn/no dj.