Search Results: Authors starting with C from Barking Mad Books

SPORT ON THE PAMIRS AND TURKESTAN STEPPES - Major C Cumberland, Blackwood and sons, London, 1895, - a modern facsimile edition, 278 page hardback VG with gilt titles and decoration, large fold-out map of Turkestan in rear, The book describes Cumberland's journey from India via Kashmir, Chinese Turkestan, the Pamirs and Central Asia -highlighting the game he encountered - wild camel, jeran antelope, ibex, red-deer and more. One the earliest westerners to reach Yarkand - Uncommon, THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THE UNVEILING OF LHASA - Edmund Candler, Edward Arnold, London, 1st edn., 1905 Original green cloth with gilt titles and front decoration, B&W plates, some ex-lib stamps, none on exterior of book, Candler was a journalist who accompanied the 1904 Younghusband mission to Lhasa - map in facsimile, new endpapers, worn corners, a much better copy than it sounds. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

BEYOND THE CASPIAN - A naturalist in Central Asia, Douglas Carruthers, Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1949 1st edn., original red cloth, bright gilt titles, VG+ hardback, no jacket, B&W and colour plates, fold-out colour map, previous owner's signature on fep - exciting travel-adventure & natural history through high Tartary - scarce THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

WILD SWANS - Three daughters of China, signed by author Jung Chang on title page, harper collins, London, VG+ 1991 1st edn., 522 pages hardback with VG+ jacket - truly remarkable story of a family during the most turbulent era in recent Chinese history. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THE SUB-ANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND - CHILTON, 2 vols, Govt Printer, Wellington, 1909 - original dk green cloth with gilt titles and decoration, Profusely illustrated, with colour fold-out map of Antarctica and all subantarctic islands in rear pocket of Vol 2. Vols VG+ some pages have been stuck together as is common with this title due to gloss paper used...hence minor loss to some pages when teased apart, Still, the definitive survey of these magnificent islands. A beautiful set.
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OUR JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD, As seen through a woman's eyes, Harriet & Francis Clark, Worthington & Co.,Hartord Conn. USA, 1895, 1st edn, original boards, highly decorated in gilt, fold-out colour map of the voyage around the globe, profusely illustrated, Fascinating glimpse of bygone era. sailing around the world USA, New Zealand, China, Japan, India and on to Middle East and Europe. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

ETERNAL ANTARCTIQUE - Voyage au pays des glaces - signed by authors Colin Monteath, Tui De Roy, Mark Jones and Ron Naveen, Solar, Paris, 1992 - French edition of WILD ICE - ANTARCTIC JOURNEYS - mainly a wildlife and landscape book with 4 personalessays. Colin Monteath's section covers his ten years with NZARP...with huskies, on Mt Erebus, in the Dry Valleys and with Prince Edward etc No other copies of the French edition were ever signed by all four co-authors THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

CLIMBS AND EXPLORATIONS IN THE BOLIVIAN ANDES - Sir William Martin Conway, Harper, New York & London, 1901, 1st edition, original blue cloth, gilt titles, worn at spine ends, bumped corners, previous owner's name fep, some light pencil underlining, profusely illustrated B&W plates - a pioneering work on the Bolivian Andes during an extensive South American tour that also took him to Tierra del Fuego. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

LOGBOOK FOR GRACE, Robert Cushman Murphy, Robert Hale, London, 1948, 1st edn., 290 page VG hardback, sl chipped but scarce jacket , some browning to pages - Murphy joined the whaling brig Daisy for an 1912-13 voyage to South Georgia - a diary account to his later wife Grace. Cushman Murphy went on to be a famous naturalist, writing the highly prized two volume Oceanic Birds of South America. Scarce in New Zealand, THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED