Search Results: Authors starting with P from Barking Mad Books

THE NORTH POLE - Robert Peary, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1st Uk edn., 1910, large format 310 page hardback with original green cloth, gilt title and gold sticker on front cover, fold-out map at rear, spine v small split, 116 B&W plates, Peary's official account of his journey with dogs that got very close to the Geographic North Pole - he claimed priority.
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AMONG THE WILD TRIBES OF THE AFGHAN FRONTIER - Dr Pennell, Seeley Service & co., London, 1922 edn., bright fine original green cloth with decorations, B&W plates, internally VG, no foxing " A record of 16 years close intercourse with the natives of the Indian marches" THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

ANTARCTICA, The extraordinary history of man's Conquest of the Frozen Continent. Revised / updated with extra chapters on tourism & Trans-antarctic dog sledging expedition written by Colin Monteath - Signed Colin Monteath principal photographer, Reader's Digest, Sydney, 1990, VG+ with VG+ jacket, large format. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

TIBET, Pietro Mele (text & B&W plates), Intro by Giotto Dainelli, Allen & Unwin, London, 1957, 100 page hardback with VG jacket. Mele travelled with Tucci to Lhasa in 1948. Excellent photographs of an older Tibet and its people between Tsangpo, Bhutan and Sikkim. Very uncommon, especially in this condition THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

IN LOTUS LAND JAPAN - Herbert Ponting, Dent & sons, London, 1911, 2nd impression, original red boards, gilt titles and embossed design on front board, minor shelf wear. A lovely travelogue through Japan with very carefully set-up B&W images - technically brilliant, eight hand-tinted colour plates with tissue guards.
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HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF PERU & HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO, Two vols, William Prescott, Bickers & sons, London, 1889, maps - classic accounts of the Spanish invasion of Mexico and Peru, about as fine a set as you'll find. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED