Travel And Exploration from Glynn's Books

St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1997. Pb, xi + 215pp, colour photos. Good, slight corner wear, clean contents. Combines travelogue and history. The author, a journalist who worked in Indochina, examines the fate of one of Asia's oldest monarchies and the upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s in Laos.. Soft Cover. Good.

London: Hutchinson, 1991. Hb, 304pp, b/w illustrations. Good in a Good dj which has light crease. Endpapers have a few speckles, contents clean. Retraces the steps of the novelist Joseph Conrad, travelling through Southeast Asia by sea, land and river, while switching impressions between the 19th century and modern day.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by Salim.

Gartmore: Kiscadale, 1994. Hb, horizontal format, 114pp, numerpus colour photos. Good+ in a Good+ dj which has sunned spine. Previous owner's inscription on fep. Photographic portrait of Burma, organized into : Rangoon, Mandalay, Land and water, Pagan.. Hard Cover. Good/Good.

Manager Smolan Millet/Against All Odds Productions, 1994. Hb, 224pp, colour photos. VG with clean contents in VG dj. In Spring 1994 the Vietnamese government granted access to a team of 70 world-class photojournalists who travelled throughout the country. Their photographs are accompanied by text by various writers.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Viking/Penguin, 2002. Hb, xii + 308pp, b/w photos. Appears to be signed by author on title page. Good with tanned pages in a Good dj. Combination of history and modern travelogue as the author retraces the footsteps of the Victorian adventurer and photographer, George Scott, who helped establish British colonial rule in Burma, documented the tribes living in the… Read more about this item

Bangkok: Post Publishing Co.Ltd, 1991. Hb, 232pp, colour photos. VG with clean contents in a Good+ dj which has marginal wear. Photographic travelogue of the landscapes and people along the Mekong river. Flowing 4,200 kilometres from the Tibetan plateau, through China's Yunnan province and Laos, along the borders of Burma and Thailand, and through Cambodia before arriving at the Nine… Read more about this item

Hodder & Stoughton, 2003. Hb, xiii + 508pp, colour and b/w plates. VG with clean contents in VG dj. Biography of the great explorer, which also traces the way Scott's reputation has been attacked and his achievements distorted.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Hb, vi + 267pp. Good+ with clean contents in VG dj. Guide for business travellers and tourists, describing Indian social, political and religious life as well as providing useful practical information.. Hard Cover. Good/Good.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1998. Hb, x + 246pp, b/w illustrations, maps. Ex-library copy (from the Reference section) with usual stamps and catalogue number on spine but in Good condition. Comprehensive survey of all the United Kingdom and Ireland's military sites, with maps. Includes over 750 sites e.g. 100 battlefields; 390 fortifications, castles, bastions and airfields; over 250 museums; 45 graveyards… Read more about this item

London: Folio Society, 1979. Introduction by Christopher Hibbert. Hb, patterned boards, 276pp, b/w illustrations, cream slipcase. VG+, clean copy in Good slipcase which is a little sunned/darkened at edges and has light wear. First published in 1766, this is Smollett's account, in the form of letters to various friends, of his two-year sojourn on the Continent. Covering numerous subjects (the… Read more about this item

Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley in Association with the National Portriat Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1976. Hb, xix + 347pp, b/w illustrations.Good+ in Fair dj which has chips and edgewear. Price stamped onto front endpaper but otherwise contents very good and clean. Stories, impressions and observations of around 30 illustrious visitors to America from 1776 to 1915, including Charles Dickens, Antonin Dvorak, the… Read more about this item

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1980. Hb, 512pp, b/w illustrations. VG in G+ price-clipped dj. Includes thematic chapters which cover every aspect of British castles, from how they were built to weaponry, defence systems, social life and the castles' changing role, plus a Gazeteer of over 1,000 castles in the United Kingdom, with basic facts past and present, and many… Read more about this item

Moscow: Planeta, 1989. English translation by Alex Miller. Hb, 190pp, numerous colour plates, plus slipcover. Front endpaper has been rather crudely removed although the book, dj (and slipcover) are otherwise in VG clean condition. Large coffee-table photo-guide to Moscow, with lovely shots of the city and its various tourist attractions. (Heavy book requiring additional postage for overseas shipping).. Hard… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson, 1952. Cloth covers (brownish-pink), no dj, 252pp, 60 two-colour plates + frontispiece of author. Foxing to page edges, light wear to cover corners/spine. Previous owner's name on fep. Travelogue by the Italian ethnologist and photographer, Fosco Maraini (1912-2004) who accompanied the explorer, Guiseppe Tucci, on two expeditions to Tibet.. Hard Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12"… Read more about this item

London: Hermes House/Arness, 2004. Pb, large format, 23cm x 30 cm, 256 pgs, colour illustrations. Unread, as new copy. Includes planning/preparation, clothing and equipment for different climates, navigation (maps, compass, nature), different forms of travel (walking, riding, canoeing etc), campcraft (layout, erecting tents, useful knots etc), Nutrition and Cooking, Natural Hazards and the environment, Emergency First Aid in different climates..… Read more about this item

London: The Studio Publications, 1948. Hb, green cloth covers, no dj, 272 pgs, b/w illustrations. G. , spine and cover corners scuffed. Travelogue and sketches by the British artist, portraying the south of England. His illustrations include historical buildings and landmarks, architectural notes and views of the countryside, from Kent to Cornwall.. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"… Read more about this item

Toronto: Boulton Hb, VG/G with scuff mark on back cover of dj. Coffee table book and portrait of Bermuda, 192 pgs with 185 colour plates, by the Bermudean photographer, Scott Stallard. Follow up to his equally successful Bermuda I. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Guild Publishing, 1985. Hb book club edition, 152 pp, colour and b/w plates. VG in G+ dj which has slight edgewear only. A survey of 50 English market towns, with historical and architectural notes. The author also describes the character of each market and discusses the individual features and local stories of the towns. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to… Read more about this item

London: Bloomsbury Books, 1993. Hb, 144 pgs with colour plates. VG in G+ dj which has a small closed tear on the back and light scuffing to edges. Fascinating guide to natural and man-made underground places throughout the British isles, including caves, caverns, mines, grottoes and tunnels. Organized by region with full directions and conditions for each site.. Hard Cover.… Read more about this item

London: Harvill, 1999. Hb, 590 pp, VG in G+ dj with light scuffs. Well-regarded biography of the writer, Bruce Chatwin, whose cult travel book, "In Patagonia" set a new standard for travel writing. A Director at Sotheby's, a newspaper journalist, an art collector, photographer, traveller and literary author, he was most of all a great storyteller. Following Chatwin's death… Read more about this item