Geographical discovery & exploration
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Geographical discovery & exploration
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: BG; RGR; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571313553
- ISBN
- 9781571313553
€ 17.10
€ 17.10
Paperback. On 8 June 1924, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine were last seen climbing towards the summit of Everest. In 1999, Conrad Anker found the body of Mallory on Mount Everest. This title assesses the clues provided by the body, its position, and the possibility that Mallory had successfully climbed the Second Step, a 90-foot sheer cliff. Num Pages: 208 pages, b&w plates. BIC Classification: 1FKN; BGH; RGR; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Robinson Publishing
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841192116
- ISBN
- 9781841192116
€ 13.99€ 11.41
€ 13.99
€ 11.41
Paperback. Containing chapters that deal with travel narratives, cosmography, commerce, and medical botany, this book examines how ideas and methods are deployed to make German commentators experts in the overseas world, and how this incorporation established the discoveries as important intellectual, commercial, and scientific developments. Series: Studies in Early Modern German History. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- F First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927343
- ISBN
- 9780813927343
€ 31.97
€ 31.97
Paperback. Explores the physical and organic phenomena of the Antarctic continent as well as its history. With chapters on the geography and formation of the continent, its exploration, its depiction in the arts and sciences, and its geopolitical treatment, the author places the remote land as central to the Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books. Num Pages: Maps & photographs. BIC Classification: 1MTS; RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 29. Weight in Grams: 699.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295976785
- ISBN
- 9780295976785
€ 30.99€ 27.75
€ 30.99
€ 27.75
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Tempus
- Number of pages
- 382
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752442075
- ISBN
- 9780752442075
€ 28.40
€ 28.40
Paperback. The great Russian explorer Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839-1888) made an indelible contribution to the world's atlases, and its store of zoological and botanical knowledge, as a consequence of his four arduous and dangerous expeditions through the Central Asia of Western Mongolia, Eastern Turkestan and Northern Tibet. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 242 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FC; 3JH; BGH; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571278077
- ISBN
- 9780571278077
€ 27.67
€ 27.67
Paperback. Born into a wealthy London family in late-eighteenth-century England, Jane Griffin enjoyed nothing like the opportunities available to men of her class. And yet she became a world traveller, ranging far off the beaten path of Grand-Tour Europe to explore Russia, Greece, the Holy Land and northern Africa. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 37. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553816433
- ISBN
- 9780553816433
€ 19.99€ 14.60
€ 19.99
€ 14.60
Paperback. This revised pictorial biography celebrates the life of Tom Crean, a great Irish hero of Antarctic exploration in an age of epics of endurance and survival against the odds. Supported by complementary text, diary extracts and maps plus new information on Tom Crean's life, this is a lasting celebration of a true hero. Num Pages: 224 pages, b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1MTS; BGH; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 406. 167pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The Collins Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781848891197
- ISBN
- 9781848891197
€ 21.95
€ 21.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages, 149 illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; DNF; RGR; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc. United States
- Edition
- New ed of 1899 ed
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486256689
- ISBN
- 9780486256689
€ 24.99€ 19.12
€ 24.99
€ 19.12
Paperback. In this book, John Humphries questions whether John Petherick was a slave trader or a victim of conspiracy on the Nile. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20 black and white. BIC Classification: 1HBEN; 3JH; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Wales Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780708326732
- ISBN
- 9780708326732
€ 11.72
€ 11.72
Paperback. Adventure, shipwreck, storms and survival on the high seas. Series: Voyages Promotion. Num Pages: 304 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1MTS; BTP; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 286. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicholson
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0001329
- ISBN
- 9780753809877
€ 4.64
€ 4.64
Paperback. In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was described by the two men in Sea of Cortez, published in 1941. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages, map. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; PSPM; RBKC; RGR; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141186078
- ISBN
- 9780141186078
€ 20.99€ 14.26
€ 20.99
€ 14.26
Paperback. Beginning with Prince Henry the Navigator's worldly vision of finding a direct sea route to India and ending with Ferdinand Magellan's quest to be the first man to sail round the world, this is the story of the numerous explorers who sought to find a path to the exotic treasures of the Far East. Num Pages: 292 pages, photographs, maps, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 3H; 3JB; HBTM; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- McFarland & Company
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780786415656
- ISBN
- 9780786415656
€ 47.85
€ 47.85
Paperback. Bestselling author Giles Milton takes us on an extraordinary journey and uncovers the answer to one of greatest historical riddles Num Pages: 304 pages, b/w/ integrated. BIC Classification: 3H; HBG; RGR; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 206. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0004379
- ISBN
- 9780340819456
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardcover. Profiles forty of the worlds greatest explorers, from Europe, America, Asia and Australia. Num Pages: 304 pages, 200 illustrations, 150 in colour. BIC Classification: RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 199 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1198. Good copy with some minor shelf wear, dustwrapper has some minor edge wear but remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0007598
- ISBN
- 9780500251690
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardcover. Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world's largest body of water, and - in matters economic, political and military - the ocean of the future. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1QRP; 1QSP; RGC; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 164 x 45. Weight in Grams: 810. Fine copy in dustwrapper
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- William Collins London
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KKD0009037
- ISBN
- 9780007550753
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. The dramatic story of the largest voyage of discovery in the history of the world, this is an astounding tale of courage, arrogance and adventure on the high seas from the author of 'In the Heart of the Sea'. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1QSP; HBG; HBLL; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 123 x 33. Weight in Grams: 366. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0007740
- ISBN
- 9780007121168
€ 4.64
€ 4.64
Hardcover. 8vo.Slightly worn copy in original cloth
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1928
- SKU
- KEX0254751
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardcover. Hardback, in good condition. With dustjacket.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & World
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1968
- Edition
- 1st
- SKU
- KRF0040203
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardcover. Illustrated 8vo.Good copy..Artic Travel
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- The Bobbs- Merrill Co. Inc.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1950
- SKU
- KEX0254772
€ 12.40
€ 12.40