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Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Explanatory insert included. Contains maps and illustrations. Facsimile of the 1810 edition, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.

Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leather binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Facsimile of the 1842 edition, complete with fold-out illustrations, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.

Life and death are never far apart in Egyptian culture and society, and Bridget McDermott's book looks beyond funerary rites and mummification to explore the beliefs and customs of ordinary people.

Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Explanatory insert included. Contains fold-out illustration. Facsimile of the 1853 edition, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.

The desire for knowledge, resources, and fame as well as a sense of duty and adventurousness has driven intrepid explorers away from their homes and into the unknown since the time of the first people. Human beings are naturally curious, and their ability to imagine what lies just beyond the horizon has helped them populate the globe, driven their technological advancements, and allowed them to discover new ways of surviving in even the most inhospitable of environments. Encyclopedia of Exploration is a two-volume reference to the history of human exploration over land, across and under seas, and into space. This must-have set - a fascinating, comprehensive reference covering core topics in the school curriculum for world history and geography - details various aspects of exploration, many of the great expeditions, and numerous explorers. Bridging the curiosity of today's students and general readers with the experiences of explorers of the past, the encyclopedia provides easy access to a wide range… Read More

Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Explanatory insert included. Facsimile of the 1861 edition, lavishly illustrated, complete with fold-out illustration and map, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.

TWO VOLUME SET. Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Explanatory insert included. Facsimile of the 1894 edition. Memorial edition, illustrated by his wife Isabel Burton. Facsimile, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.

Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leather binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Facsimile of the 1881 edition, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.

Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Facsimile of the 1872 edition, complete with fold-out map, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.

In Two Volumes - both volumes are in one book. Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Facsimile of the 1898 edition, complete with fold-out map, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.

In Two Volumes - both volumes are in one book. Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Facsimile of the 1898 edition, complete with fold-out map, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.

Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Explanatory insert included. Contains large fold-out map inside back cover. Facsimile of the 1863 edition, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers and reproduction of the author's signature.

Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Facsimile of the 1852 edition, preserving the historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.

Brian Moynahan was an award-winning foreign correspondent and European editor with the Sunday Times. His many books include The Faith: A History of Christianity, The Russian Century, Comrades, The Claws of the Bear, Rasputin. Forgotten Soldiers, his first book for Quercus, was published in 2007 with Jungle Soldier following in 2009.

Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leather binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Facsimile of the 1857 edition, complete with fold-out map and illustration, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.

Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Explanatory insert included. Facsimile of the 1910 edition, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.

Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Facsimile of the 1876 edition, complete with fold-out maps, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.

"Excerpt from Three-Foot Stool It is still at the present day in the United States of Mexico that the model of the ranch is found, where the area is measured by scores of miles and the increase by tens of thousands of calves, and where owners live in paternal simplicity and state. AS it is in the State of Chihuahua to-day, SO it was in Texas, then undetached from Mexico, when the Southerners began to filter into it. They immediately adopted the system, and an etymologist could detect its origin by an examination of the cowpuncher's vocabulary, which is studded with Spanish words. It is especially the characteristic and peculiar words of his trade that come from that source. Their mere recital is a rough picture of Mexican life: the ranch-house with its circus-shaped yard, the corral; the remuda." (Goodreads) Very rare. First Edition, first impression. Subject - cattle ranching in the Americas. Format: Hardback. Navy cloth covered boards. Gilt lettering to front and spine. 256pp. + 8pp ads at back.… Read More

Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Explanatory insert included. Contains several maps and illustrations. Facsimile of the 1893 edition, lavishly illustrated, complete with fold-out map, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers and reproduction of the author's signature.

Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Explanatory insert included. Facsimile of the 1893 edition, lavishly illustrated, complete with fold-out map, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.