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Danziger, Nick
Danziger's Travels Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
Publisher: New York: Vintage Departures, 1988 reprint.
426pp. paperback 8vo: near Fine [a smudge top edge; else nrF] The author traveled from London to Peking with minimal equipment, mostly clandestinely, without visas and in disguise as an itinerant Muslim. His 18-month journey cost him only $1,500 because he went native all the way. The reviewer in "The Literary Review" said: "this book contains some of the most exciting travel writing I have ever read."
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AUD 14.71 | CAD 15.46 | EUR 11.63 | GBP 9.93 | JPY 1,363.64 | MXN 166.67 | ZAR 150.00 |
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Item number: 5369.
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Garstin, Crosbie
The Dragon and the Lotus
Publisher: New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1927 1st ed.
343pp. illus. red cloth 8vo: near Very Good/no dj. A Pacific and southeast Asian travelogue with line drawings by the author.
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AUD 14.71 | CAD 15.46 | EUR 11.63 | GBP 9.93 | JPY 1,363.64 | MXN 166.67 | ZAR 150.00 |
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Item number: 18122.
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Glazebrook, Philip
Journey to Kars
Publisher: New York: Atheneum, 1984 1st Am. ed.
246pp. hardback 8vo: ex lib.copy; a clean complete & tight copy in dj w/a minimum of markings from a deletion. Jacket praise for this journey through former lands of the Ottoman Empire from Paul Theroux: "a rare travel book that combines the personal and the scholarly with a good rough trip."
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AUD 2.93 | CAD 3.08 | EUR 2.32 | GBP 1.98 | JPY 271.82 | MXN 33.22 | ZAR 29.90 |
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Item number: 12361.
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Hanbury-Tenison, Robin
A Ride Along the Great Wall
Publisher: Topsfield, MA: Salem House, 1988 1st Am. ed.
215pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj. The account of a thousand-mile journey along the Great Wall of China on horseback.
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AUD 4.89 | CAD 5.14 | EUR 3.87 | GBP 3.30 | JPY 453.64 | MXN 55.44 | ZAR 49.90 |
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Item number: 9015.
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Hansen, Eric
Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea
Publisher: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991 1st ed.
240pp. hardback 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [some tiny age spotting to top & fore edges; else nrF] Travel writing by the acclaimed author of “Stranger in the Forest.”
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AUD 4.89 | CAD 5.14 | EUR 3.87 | GBP 3.30 | JPY 453.64 | MXN 55.44 | ZAR 49.90 |
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Item number: 15222.
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Hodson, Peregrine
Under a Sickle Moon: A Journey Through Afghanistan
Publisher: New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987 1st Am. ed.
226pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good [text is age browned; a page mid-text is slightly torn @ fore edge margin; else VG]
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AUD 1.95 | CAD 2.05 | EUR 1.54 | GBP 1.32 | JPY 180.91 | MXN 22.11 | ZAR 19.90 |
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Item number: 8444.
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Holt, Peter
In Clive's Footsteps
Publisher: London: Hutchinson, 1990 1st ed.
211pp. hardback sm 4to: Fine in a Fine dj.
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AUD 4.89 | CAD 5.14 | EUR 3.87 | GBP 3.30 | JPY 453.64 | MXN 55.44 | ZAR 49.90 |
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Item number: 10895.
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Iyer, Pico
Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East
Publisher: New York: Vintage Departures, 1989 1st ed. thus.
376pp. paperback 8vo: near Fine [text is lightly age browned; else nrF] A much praised travelogue, written before the explosion of the Asian "Tiger."
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AUD 2.93 | CAD 3.08 | EUR 2.32 | GBP 1.98 | JPY 271.82 | MXN 33.22 | ZAR 29.90 |
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Item number: 18715.
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King, Victor T., ed.
The Best of Borneo Travel
Publisher: Singapore: Oxford Univ. Press, 1992.
315pp. illus. paperback: Fine. A wonderful anthology of travel writing about Borneo over four centuries.
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AUD 24.51 | CAD 25.77 | EUR 19.38 | GBP 16.56 | JPY 2,272.73 | MXN 277.78 | ZAR 250.00 |
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Item number: 16850.
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Kwan, Michael David
Broken Portraits: Personal Encounters with Chinese Students
Publisher: San Francisco: China Books & Periodicals, 1990
xvii, 198pp. + ads. paperback 8vo: near Fine [several pp. mid-text have top corner creases; else nrF] Chinese-Canadian Michael Kwan's account of his time as a visiting English teacher in China in 1988, 54 years after his birth in Peking. His frank conversations with his students reveal the depth of their discontent and foreshadow the events in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
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AUD 1.95 | CAD 2.05 | EUR 1.54 | GBP 1.32 | JPY 180.91 | MXN 22.11 | ZAR 19.90 |
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Item number: 6852.
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Munro, Eleanor
On Glory Roads: A Pilgrim's Book about Pilgrimage
Publisher: New York: Thames & Hudson, 1988 reprint.
297pp. paperback tall 8vo: near Fine [ink name; bit of age darkening to top & fore edges; else nrF]
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AUD 3.43 | CAD 3.61 | EUR 2.71 | GBP 2.32 | JPY 318.18 | MXN 38.89 | ZAR 35.00 |
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Item number: 10048.
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Powell, E. Alexander
The Last Home of Mystery: Adventures in Nepal, etc.
Publisher: Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., reissue of c1929 ed.
332pp. illus. orange cloth 8vo w/pictorial device: Very Good+ in a Good dj in poly cover. Travels to Nepal and accounts of Ceylon, British India, the Native States, the Persian Gulf, the Overland Desert Mail and the Baghdad Railway, by the American journalist and traveler Powell (1879-1958).
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AUD 9.75 | CAD 10.26 | EUR 7.71 | GBP 6.59 | JPY 904.55 | MXN 110.56 | ZAR 99.50 |
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Item number: 17914.
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Schiffer, Michael
Lessons of the Road: An Overland Journey to the East
Publisher: New York: Kenan Press, 1980 1st ed.
252pp. hardback 8vo: near Very Good in a near Very Good dj [ink name on ffep; some age spotting of top & fore edges; small rem. dot bottom edge; else nrVG; dj = few creases; else nrVG] An entertaining period piece that evokes a late sixties, early seventies travel style experienced by many a Baby Boomer.
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AUD 4.89 | CAD 5.14 | EUR 3.87 | GBP 3.30 | JPY 453.64 | MXN 55.44 | ZAR 49.90 |
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Item number: 18947.
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Seth, Vikram
From Heaven Lake: Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet
Publisher: New York: Vintage Books, 1987 1st ed. thus.
178pp. paperback 8vo: near Very Good [some wear @ spine strip; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A youthful rough travel adventure to the back of beyond. Vikram Seth (b. 1952) won the 1983 Thomas Cook Award for travel writing for this first book.
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Item number: 17763.
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Seth, Vikram
From Heaven Lake: Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet (signed)
Publisher: New York: Vintage Books, 1987 1st ed. thus.
SIGNED on title p. by author. 178pp. paperback 8vo: near Fine [previous owner's name and brief details of the NYC book signing at which this book was signed is noted in ink on half-title p.; else nrF] A very nice signed copy of this youthful rough travel adventure to the back of beyond. Vikram Seth (b. 1952) won the 1983 Thomas Cook Award for travel writing for this first book.
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AUD 73.53 | CAD 77.32 | EUR 58.14 | GBP 49.67 | JPY 6,818.18 | MXN 833.33 | ZAR 750.00 |
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Item number: 10899.
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Williams, Hugo
All the Time in the World
Publisher: New York: Chilton Book Co., 1966 1st Am. ed.
279pp. grey cloth 8vo: ex lib. copy; dj = tipped down in mylar cover school lib. style w/usual markings from a deletion; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy. The English poet Hugo Williams's (b. 1942) youthful travel memoir is a classic of the hippies-through-Asia genre of the 1960s and '70s.
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Item number: 15441.
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Williams, Hugo
All the Time in the World
Publisher: New York: Chilton Book Co., 1966 1st Am. ed.
279pp. cloth 8vo: Very Good in a Good dj [small spot on fore edge; else VG; dj = torn with loss @ spine ends; chipped @ corners; sticker ghost on front cover panel; spine is sunned; else G] The English poet Hugo Williams’s (b. 1942) youthful travel memoir is a classic of the hippies-through-Asia genre of the 1960s and '70s.
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AUD 24.51 | CAD 25.77 | EUR 19.38 | GBP 16.56 | JPY 2,272.73 | MXN 277.78 | ZAR 250.00 |
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Item number: 3080.
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