Search Results: Travel from Elk Creek Heritage Books

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2003. Soft cover. Very Good. Softcover with wraps in very good condition showing only light shelf & edge wear. Spine not cracked. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Black & white photos and maps throughout. 974 pages.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2007. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition per complete number line including number one. Hardcover with glossy pictorial boards measuring approximately 6 5/8"" tall x 9 5/8"" wide x 2 1/4"" thick. Boards in very good condition with only light shelf & edge wear but has a ""wrinkle"" in the laminated coating on the front running vertically from top to bottom. (See photo) Boards are not bent. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Six pages of text at beginning for Introduction but then every turn of the page contains either a double spread of a large photograph or a single side with text narrative on facing page. * From the Introduction, ""On November 17, 2006, during ABC's Good Morning America, a panel of experts selected the Great Migration as one of the Seven New Wonders of the World....the uniqueness of the area and the preservation it provides to so many species… Read More

New York: Random House, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition. Complete number line including the number one. Hard cover in very good condition with black boards & gold gilt spine lettering. Three numbers in red ink on back paste down which are not visible when dust jacket is on. Interior text block clean & tight; papers show beginning of mellow age toning; no writing, no markings to note. Contains a section of 8 leaves / 16 pages of glossy colored photographs. 322 numbered pages. Concludes with a Select Bibliography and an extensive Index. Dust jacket in very good condition with just ghost of shelf & edge wear; crease from top to bottom of back jacket flap. Not price clipped. * From the front jacket flap, ""In this utterly surprising, deeply personal book, acclaimed NPR reporter Rob Gifford, a fluent Mandarin speaker, takes the dramatic journey along Route 312 from its start in the boomtown of Shanghai to its end on the border… Read More

Dobbs Ferry NY: Sheridan House Inc, 1986. Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. Three volume set of soft cover titles by sailing and cruising enthusiast, Eric Hiscock. Titles: COME ABOARD, WANDERING UNDER SAIL, SOU'WEST IN WANDERER IV. All are in fine condition; appear unread. Slipcase is made of card stock paper; very good condition. * Note: In the photos you will see an ISBN on the back of the slipcase; research shows this the ISBN for another book, not the one described here.

New York: Fawcett Books, 1997. Soft cover. Very Good. Softcover in very good condition. Interior text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Very light beginning of age toning to the papers. Pictorial wraps in very good condition with only ghost of shelf wear. * From the book, ""For centuries Italy has been many things to many people. In this brilliant anthology and traveler's companion, twenty-eight first-rate women writers reveal why the land that is the heart and soul of European civilization is so Seductive to women."" Writers include Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, George Eliot, Edith Warton, Mary McCarthy, Shirley Hazzard, Patricia Hampl, and many others.

Ballantine Books, 2013. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition in addition to complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with tan boards, blue spine cloth, and gold gilt spine lettering. End papers depict a map of the World in 1890 and show Elizabeth Bisland's Westbound Route and Nellie Bly's Eastbound Route. Text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket very good with just a ghost of shelf & edge wear; has been price clipped. * From the book, ""On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around. Also departing from New York that day - and heading in the opposite direction by train - was a young journalist from The Cosmopolitan magazine, Elizabeth Bisland. Each woman was determined to outdo Jules Verne's fictional hero… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Penguin Group, 2000. Soft cover. Good. Soft cover in very good condition with wraps bright & crisp; gentle shelf & edge wear; a 1/2"" tear at bottom of spine has been repaired with tape. Contains two sections of glossy photographs, one section black & white, other section colored; 30 photographs in total. * From the covers, ""One woman's moving story of personal tragedy, indomitable courage, and undying love for Africa, its wildlife, and its people."" ""Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Kim Basinger

Whitehorse Press, 1997. Soft cover. Very Good. 3rd Printing Soft cover in very good condition with wraps shiny and uncreased; book appears unread. Interior text block clean & tight. Contains many black & white photos and maps. * From the book, ""From Tijuana to Cabo, Salvadori knows Baja, having been a regular explorer of this grand peninsula for more than 20 years. The popular tourist destinations get their nod, but like the true motorcyclists he writes for, Salvadori's taste for the open road leans more toward the Real Thing: the memorable, unspoiled places you'd love to discover for yourself... ""

San Diego, California: Thunder Bay Press, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. OVERSIZE. 1st Printing First edition per number line. Hard cover in fine condition with glossy pictorial boards. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition and photographs and lettering mirror the glossy boards. * Front cover and back cover both show a photo of the Port of New York from the air : front photo taken 1933 and back photo taken 1995. Every glossy page of the volume contains black & white, sepia toned, or colored photographs. Includes color photographs of the NYC skyline showing the World Trade Center; opposite a photograph of the same view taken a week after the September 11th Terrorists attacks with a fog from the still burning debris where the towers had stood. From the jacket, "". . . a celebration of New York City's great past and a captivating look at the way in which the city has changed and evolved over the years… Read More

Roosevelt, New York: James B. Adler, Inc., 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Photographs by A. E. Woolley. Introduction by Steward L. Udall, Secretary of the Interior. Hardcover in very good condition with beige boards. Red lettering on front board and spine. Red endpapers. Text block clean & tight with no markings or writings noted. Top of text block stained red and showing age spotting. Heavy papers show mellow age toning. Dust jacket in very good condition; light shelf & edge wear with a few tiny chips at top & bottom of spine and bottom of front. See photos. Not price clipped. Contains black & white photographs and line drawing maps throughout. Concludes with an Index.

Narni - Terni: Plurigraf, 1978. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Soft cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Contains beautiful art, paintings, photographs on almost every page with detail descriptions. Also contains several pages of maps. Wraps have been encased in a protective cover. * Published over 40 years ago. From the book, ""This Guide has been compiled by the Publishers with the idea of giving the reader a great deal of brief information which will enable him above all to find his way about among the manifold beauties of the City of Rome.""

U.S.A.: Travelers' Tales Inc, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Printing. Hardcover in very good condition with white boards and black spine cloth containing silver lettering. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Dark blue endpapers. Dust jacket in very good condition with only ghost of shelf & edge wear.* From the book, ""A powerful combination of travel and spiritual adventure in which the healing of the world and the healing of one man appear to be inextricably linked.""

South Royalton, Vermont: Steerforth Italia, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated First Edition; no additional printings noted. Hardcover in very good condition with dust jacket likewise; not price clipped. Interior text block clean & tight with no markings to note. * From the book, ""Enveloping the ancient city of Rome is a lively modern city of markets, shops, and restaurants; of parks, cafes, and hidden gardens;of grand public spaces and hidden fountains; of people going about their lives .......Readers, mouths watering, will likely be left with a profound desire to head Romeward.""

New York: Pantheon Books, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated First American Edition. Originally published in Denmark as ""Revolution"" with copyright 1979. Tiny red stamp of a house on top text block. Hard cover in very good condition with yellow boards and off-white spine cloth with gold gilt lettering on spine and front board. Boards show light shelf wear with dust dulling; about 5 vertical inches of light foxing to the spine cloth on front; light warp to front board. Gift inscription at top of front free end paper, no other writing in text. Text block otherwise clean & tight; no markings to note. Includes a section of 8 leaves / 16 pages glossy black & white photographs. 207 numbered pages. Dust jacket in very good condition with only ghost of shelf & edge wear; has been price clipped. * From the jacket flap, ""Jan Bredsdorff is a young Danish author who has written five books on China, having lived there on and off… Read More

University of North Carolina Press, 1993. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Printing First Edition per same date on Title Page and Copyright page. No other printings noted. Softcover in very good condition with glossy pictorial wraps showing only ghost of shelf wear. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Black & white photographs throughout. * From a caption under photos of Orville and Wilbur Wright, ""Orville and Wilbur Wright, Dayton bicycle makers, first became intrigued with the possibility of powered flight in 1899. By 1900 they were searching for an appropriate place to conduct tests of 'scientific kite flying.' The Outer Banks of North Carolina proved to be a hospitable site."" This is their story.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated: First Edition: December 2006. Hard cover in very good condition. Navy boards with copper gilt spine lettering. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Frontispiece consists of line drawing detail of the 1995 vessel. Contains a section of black & white photographs. Dust jacket very good with only slightest shelf and edge wear except for ripples on the front. Not sure if it rippled from a splash of water or if intentional to emphasis the story of the sea expedition. 313 pages.

Wisconsin: Willow Creek Press, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. Soft cover in fine condition. Glossy wraps in crisp-as-new condition. Over 40 beautiful full-page color photographs and valuable information. * From the book, ""Wild Encounters highlights the most spectacular wildlife-watching opportunities in the United States. Lively and practical, this guidebook reveals the best trips to take, when and where to go, how to go it alone.""