Search Results: Travel and Adventure from W. Fraser Sandercombe

London: Warner Books, 1992. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 224 pp. Trade paperback format. Edge and corner wear with some faint creasing on the upper corner of the front cover and faint creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with maps and with black and white plates. The Chapters are: THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS: The Cobbler; Ben Lomond; Ben Venue; Ben Lui; The Glen Falloch Group; Cruach Ardrain; Ben More and Stob Binnein; Ben Vorlich and Stuc a Chroin; Beinn Dorian and Beinn an Dothaidh; The Tarmachan Ridge; Ben Lawers; and Schiehallion. THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: Ben Cruachan; Ben Starav; Stob Ghabhar; Beinn a Bheithir; Bidean nam Bian; Buachaille Etive Beag; Buachaille Etive Mor; Aonach Eagach; Mullach nan Coriean and Sto Ban; The Ring of Steall; Binnein Mor and Na Gruagaichean; Ben Nevis and the CMD Arete; The Aonachs; The Grey Corries; The Easains; The Geal Charn Group; Ben Alder; and Creag Meagaidh. THE WESTERN HIGHLANDS: Garbh Bheinn; The Rois Bheinn… Read More

Guelph, Ontario: Private Printing, 2000. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. Later Printing. 8vo. 104 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with maps, including a fold-out map. The Contents are: Major Trail Links: Trans Canada Trail; Bruce Trail; Grand Valley Trail; Waterfront Trail; Niagara Parks Recreation Trail. Grand River Conservation Authority: Apps' Mill Nature Trail - Brantford; Cambridge to Paris Rail Trail; Elora Gorge Trail; Elora Cataract Trailway; F.W.R. Dickson Trail - Cambridge; Luther Marsh Trail - Orangeville; Pinehurst Lake Trail - Cambridge; Rockwood Trail; Shade's Mills Trail - Cambridge. Halton Region Conservation Authority: Crawford Lake Trails - Milton; Iroquoian Village Trail - Milton; Hilton Falls Trails - Milton; Kelso/Glen Eden Trails - Milton; Mountsberg Trails - Campbellville; Raptor Centre Trail - Campbellville; Mount Nemo Trails - Burlington; Rattlesnake Point Trails - Milton.… Read More

New York: Broadway Books - Random House, 2000. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 229 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. This spans six continents and four decades of hard-core living, from the Taliban in Afghanistan, to hitmen in the Philippines, from a plane crash in Borneo to a terrorist bombing in Africa, from dancing with headhunters in Sarawak to pirates on the Sulu Sea... The Chapters are: Part One: Genesis; Part Two: Evolution; Part Three: Dark Passage; and Part Four: The Passionate Pilgrim..

London: Penguin Books, 1995. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 12mo. 142 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Profusely illustrated with black and white plates. The Chapters are: Full Moon Island; Emanuele's Chameleons; The Brigadier's Cheetah; A Maasai Woman; Mwtua; The Bull Shark of Vuma; Langat; The Story of Nungu Nungu; The Tale of Two Bushbabies; The Pendulum; A Bed Like a Vessel; The Rhino that Ran Fast Enough; Fifty Guineas' Pike; The Cobra Who Came from the Dark; Elephant Ballad; Aidan's Return; Upon the Wings of the Wind; The Ring and the Lake; The Rain Stick; Birthday in Turkana; and The Magic Cove..

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1974. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xiii) 226 pp. Blue boards lettered in black and white on the spine; illustrated with diagrams and line drawings; the dustjacket is also a folding nautical chart of Massachusetts Bay. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; previous owner's name inside. The Contents are: Foreword by A. C. Wagner, Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard; Cruising the Dining Room Table; Information on Charts; Ship's Compass; Plotting Courses; Speed and Distance Indicators; Ranges; Bearings; Danger Bearings; Fix; Running Fix; Circle of Distance; DR (Dead Reckoning) Track; Plotting Tracks - Power and Sail; Depth Sounding; RDF - Radio Direction Finder; Radar, Loran, Omega and Omni; Current; Leeway; Tides; Fog; and Night Cruising; followed by Appendices: Quick Reference Lists: Chart Language; Plotting Prodcedures; Nautical and Statute Mileage Equivalents; Lights Carried on Boats Under Way; Fog Signals from… Read More

West Vancouver and Seattle: Gordon Soules Book Publishers, 1992. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. Signed by Authors. First Printing. 8vo. 246 pp. Trade paperback format. Signed by Ian and Sally Wilson on the half-title page. Light rubbing on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; as well as the authors' signatures, there is a previous owner's name inside; no other interior markings. Illustrated with colour plates, black and white photographs, maps and drawings. For one action-packed year, Ian and Sally Wilson travelled over 2,000 miles by canoe and dog team across Canada's vast Arctic. They also lived with an Inuit family and learned how to build igloos and run a team of seven boisterous Huskies. The Chapters are: Canoeing North; Whitewater; Life on the Tundra; Lake Country; Baker Lake Stopever; The North Wind; To the Sea and Back; Tiguaq; Ice Fishing; Caribou Clothing; Igloo Building; December in Baker Lake; Finding a Dog Team; Working as a Team; Dog Trails; Pulling Hard; Storm… Read More

Vancouver, British Columbia: Open Road Publishers, 2005. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 8vo. 288 pp. Personalized inscription by both authors on the half-title page. Light edge and corner wear with a faint crease in the lower right of the front cover and a flat uncreased spine; aside from the authors' inscription, no interior markings. Illustrated with maps. From Doctor Dako the witch-doctor to Pauline the Psychic, from the White Nile, the Amazon and Togo, the Jennings travelled widely and wrote all about it....

Burlington, Ontario: Apogee Books, 2008. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 238 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings. Phileas Fogg was the protagonist in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, originally published in 1873. The Contents are: George Griffith - Prophet and Adventurer; How I Broke the Record Round the World by George Griffith; Across Europe and 45 Hours; Life on an Eastbound Liner; Eastward Ho; Through the Desert Lands; From Aden to Eden; A Glimpse at the Pearl of the Sea; The City of the Lions; The Heathen at Sea; The Town of Three Names; The Skipper's Yarn; A Glimpse of Lilliput; Eastward to the Far West; A Week on Wheels; The End of the Run; A Railway Beyond the Clouds; A Ride to the City of the Sun; A Paradise of Tomorrow; The Most Majestic Mountain; Los Medanos; The Snake Dancers of Arizona; To France by Air; and When Will the 20th Century Begin..

London: William Kimber, 1980. Book. Illus. by Donald S. Swan;. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 188 pp. Green boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact. Wraparound dj art by Donald S. Swan. The Contents are: Life Is Just a Motor Car; A Home for Demelza; The Day of the Caravan; Of Printers and Psychologists; A New Year at Rosie's; Springtime Fancies; Uppers and Downers; Memories of Cornwall; And Even Longer Ago; Summer Days; Sanu Sails Again; and Around the Balearic Islands..

New York: Pyramid Books, 1959. Book. Illus. by Lou Marchetti;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Printing. 158 pp. Pyramid Book PG26. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; previous owner's name inside. Illustrated with a map. Cover art by Lou Marchetti..

London: Adlard Coles, 1987. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 159 pp. Trade paperback format. Light wear on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs and charts. Hiscock and his wife had sailed twice around the world in their thirty-foot yacht but they had never been to the United States. So they decided to sail there, via the Caribbean, spending two years on the round voyage. And this is what happened. The Chapters are: Biscay; Iberia; In the North-east Trade Wind; Charter Fleet Waters; Bahamas; Fog; Maine to Chesapeake; The Inland Waterway; and North Atlantic; followed by an index..

Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Hydrographic Service - Department of Fisheries and Oceans, 1987. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to. A fold-out chart and map, listing all the available Canadian coastal charts, in English and in French..

Toronto: Deneau Publishers, 1988. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 326 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Subtitled Canadian Writers in Exotic Places, this anthology contains: Fiji by Sir Edward Belcher; Siberia by Sir George Simpson; P and O Liner by Sara Jeannette Duncan; Rome by James de Mille; Sinai by C. T. Currelly; London by Stephen Leacock; Paris by Morley Callaghan; Paris by John Glassco; New York by Hugh MacLennan; Egypt by Ethel Wilson; London by Charles Ritchie; Casablanca by A. M. Klein; Tanganyika by J. C. Cairns; Mexico by Malcolm Lowry; Leningrad by Diana Goldsborough; Rio De Janeiro by Garry Marchant; Cornwall by Norman Levine; Morocco by Kildare Dobbs; Greece by Gwendolyn MacEwen; South Seas by George Woodcock; Calcutta by Clark Blaise; Calcutta by Bharati Mukherjee; Santa Barbara by Brian Moore; Portugal by Harry Bruce; Greenland by Jim Christy; Japan by Loral Dean; and… Read More

Toronto: Vintage Books - Canada, 2003. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 269 pp. (xvii) Trade paperback format. Some wear on the upper left corner of the front cover and a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs. This anthology contains: Monks on Mopeds by Laurie Gough; Incident at Rankin Inlet by Peter Unwin; Chickens Girls and Ruins by Simona Close; Two Days in Dallas by Charles Wilkins; Her Eyes Follow by Camilla Gibb; On the Road to San Rocco a Pilli by Michael Redhill; Looking for Demetrius by Myrna Kostash; Bus Ride to Big Jesus by Rick Maddocks; Exit Permit by Grant Buday; Penetrating Europe-land by Mark Anthony Jarman; The Drunken Boat by Steven Heighton; Local Rules by Brad Smith; A Brazilian Notebook by Andrew Pyper; Up the Holy Mountain and Down by the Cable Car by David Manicom; Off Season in Puerto Vallarta by Warren Dunford; Close Encounters of the Euro Trash Kind by Deirdre Kelly; We Turned Some Sharp Corners: A Marriage… Read More

Cobalt, Ontario: The Highway Bookshop, 1975. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Later Printing. 8vo. 39 pp. Staple-bound in pictorial card covers. Light wear on the corners; previous owner's name inside. Profusely illustrated with line drawings by Muriel E. Newton-White..

Edmonton, Alberta: Hurtig Publishers, 1984. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 271 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; some darkening around the edges of the text block. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. The Contents are: Erie Road; Grand River Road; Farm Country; Bruce Peninsula Road; Cuestas and Valleys; Simcoe County Highlands; Ridge Road West; Ridge Road East; Rice Lake Road; Quinte Shore Road; Napanee River Road; Island Roads; Perth Road; Rideau Road; Ottawa River Road; Opeongo Road; Highlands of Hastings; Buckhorn Road; Nipissing Road; Haweater Trail; Cobalt Circle; Far North Road; Silver Mountain Road; and Sibley Road; followed by Key Roads to the Backroads and an index..

Toronto: Coles Canadiana Collection - Coles Publishing, 1971. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 351 pp. Trade paperback format. This was originally published in London in 1836 by Charles Knight. Illustrated with engravings. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a small scuff mark on the upper right of the front cover and a flat uncreased spine; previous owner's name inside. Catherine Parr Traill was the sister of Susanna Moodie and Samuel Strickland. The Contents are: Letter One: Departure from Greenock in the Brig Laurel. Letter Two: Arrival off Newfoundland; Gulf of St. Laurence; Difficult Navigation of the River; French Fisherman engaged as a Pilot; Gros Isle; Quarantine Regulations; Arrival off Quebec. Letter Three: Departure from Quebec; Towed by a Steam Vessel; Arrival off Montreal; The Rapids. Letter Four: Landing at Montreal; Ravages of the Cholera; Departure from Montreal in a Stage Coach; Embark at Lachine on board a Steam Vessel; Arrival at Cornwall;… Read More

Banff, Alberta: Summerthought, 1975. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (ix) 157 pp. Burgundy boards lettered in gilt on the spine; endpaper maps; illustrated with black and white photographs. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Contents are: Foreword by Dr Lewis H. Thomas; Preface; The Sound of Silence; The First of All Things; Climate and Vegetation; Wildlife in Rocky Montains Park; The First Mountain People; Traders Travellers and Missionaries; New Light on the Rockies; The Coming of the Rails; The Old and the New; A Park and a Man; A New Century; Park Policy; The Park and Industry; Change in the Park; Banff and the Visitor; Sidelights; and The Future; followed by an epilogue, an appendix (the Pablo Buffalo Herd) and an index..

Shawnee, Kansas: Bon A Tirer Publishing, 1991. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 255 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings. The history of each team, as well as the town's baseball heritage, for the casual fan as well as the baseball addict....

Toronto: Tutor Press, 1978. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. (viii) 184 pp. Trade paperback format. Edge and corner wear with a crease on the upper right of the front cover and a crease on the spine; previous owner's name inside. Illustrated with drawings, diagrams, charts and black and white photographs. The Contents are: Introduction to Navigation; The Compass; Navigational Instruments; Charts and Publications; Tides and Currents; Dead Reckoning; Piloting; Basic Electronic Navigation Systems; Advanced Electronic Navigation Systems; Nautical Astronomy; Time; Sight Reduction; Other Celestial Computations; and Duties of the Navigator; followed by appendices and an index..