Search Results: Authors starting with L from Barking Mad Books

TRAVELS IN CHINA - A PLANTSMAN'S PARADISE, Roy Lancaster, Antique Collector's Club, Suffolk, 1993 with new addendum (first published 1989) - B&W and colour plates + maps throughout this weighty tome 500+ page VG+ hardback, VG+ jacket. A combination of the author's own plant collecting in SW China but descriptions of the journeys of pioneers such as Joseph Rock.
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SIKKIM HIMALAYA - TRAVELS IN THE CLOUD KINGDOM, David Lang, Pomegranate Press, UK 2003, As new VG+ 200 page large-format hardback, VG+ jacket, Super: multiple trekking routes through Sikkim in word and colour image, maps - A passionate lover of Sikkim - a must to study of planning a trip. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THE SHARP END OF A SHORT-ROPE, Graham Langton, privately published by the New Zealand Mountain Guides Association, 2016, 206 page softbound, profusely illustrated in colour and B&W, a 50 year history of NZMGA - very hard to find/small print run. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THE DESERT ROAD TO TURKESTAN - Owen Lattimore - Methuen, London, 1928, 1st UK edn., 330 pages, hardback in original brown/orange cloth, ex-lib with usual lib markings & one end paper map torn - numerous B&W plates - An exciting overland journey with camel caravans from Peking to India through desolate Mongolia and on into Central Asia. Lattimore was America's foremost expert & prolific author on China, Mongolia and Central Asia who was persecuted in USA during the McCarthy era....a scarce book in any condition . Priced accordingly THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

FACE TO FACE - OCEAN PORTRAITS - historic images from the world's finest maritime collections - Huw Lewis-Jones - Foreword by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston The Call of the Sea + essays on early photography at sea - 1st edn., 285 page large-format hardback, as new with VG jacket - hauntingly beautiful / powerful portraits in B&W and colour...with succinctly written mini bios. A truly remarkable book that, akin to Polar Portraits, will see you coming back to it year after year.
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THOSE GREENLAND DAYS, Martin Lindsay, Blackwood & sons, London, 1932, 1st edn., 2nd imp, B&W plates, maps, This copy beautifully/professionally rebound in green leather on spine with red panel and gilt titles, green cloth on boards. My Bookplate from Colin Monteath polar library fep. - A collector's item A famous British Greenland expedition winters in Angmagssalik on east coast, dog sledging on sea ice and across the icecap to West Coast by two routes, small aircraft used for support, use Shackleton's ship Quest. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

GREAT PEAKS OF NEW ZEALAND - signed by author Hugh Logan, McIndoe, Dunedin, 1990, 1st edn., large 178 page softbound, B&W and colour plates, route diagrams, previous owner's signature on fep, Climbing history of 16 major peaks in Southern Alps, THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THE CALL OF THE WILD - Jack London, The Macmillan company, New York & London, 1905 edn., - same gorgeous cover design as 1903 1st edn., previous owner's signature on fep dated 1908, Front board bright and fine, some marks /worn/ dulling to spine, front and rear hinges weak, colour plates, London's famous novel of life in the wilds of North America - scarce - priced accordingly. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

A PILGRIMAGE OF PASSION, The life of Wilfrid Blunt, Elizabeth Longford, Weidenfeld & Nicholson , London, 1979, 1st edn., 466 page VG+ hardback, VG jacket, B&W plates, Desert explorer - a great English eccentric. Lawrence and Philby always called in on Blunt before setting out for the desert - a most thorough biography, rich with passion and politics across the face of the middle East. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THE LAST OF THE WINDJAMMERS - Basil Lubbock, Brown Son & Ferguson, Glasgow, 1969 Edn: (First printed 1927), Two volumes with original blue cloth and VG+ dustjackets, - Profusely illustrated with black & white photos and meticulously drawn fold-out line plans of square-riggers, Lubbock covers the history of the Windjammers, including life of the personnel, history of Cape Horn, the vessels of the big Sailing Ship Trades, the Small Fry, and the period 1888-1928, "forty hard years for the Windjammer". A classic...a cornerstone set for any serious collector of nautical material - about as fine a set as you'll find.
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THE ARCTIC WHALERS - Basil Lubbock, Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd., Nautical publishers, Glasgow, 1978 Edn (originally published 1937): Hardback, 350 pages, VG, almost mint with VG+ dustjacket, numerous B&W illustrations, fold-out plans for square-riggers, bookplate of Colin Monteath - Lubbock's detailed history of whaling, its ships and seamen from the earliest times to WWI, British whaling in the Arctic, Svalbard, wintering in the Arctic, Greenland, Baffin Bay & David Straits One of the classics in Lubbock's series on sail-powered vessels. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

UTTERMOST PART OF THE EARTH, E Lucas Bridges, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1948 first edn., 558 page hardback in original green cloth with gilt tiles, map as endpapers plus fold-out map, two bumped corners, profusely illustrated with charming sepia plates, previous owner's signature on fep, a timeless classic of life at Estancia Harberton on the Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego - a lovely 1st edn. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED