Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1865. Hardcover - According to the preface, this is "a plain and faithful account of the cruises, rambles and adventures of the writer during 8 years of his early life "..1809 to 1817. Illustrated with steel engravings. 452 pp.

Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica Press, (1961) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the American naval officer, aviator and polar explorer Richard Byrd which focuses on his life of constant adventure, starting at a young age, and his bravery in trying to survive at the Advance Base during his second expedition. A title in the Great Lives for Young Americans Series. Map. Illustrated with drawings by Robert Boehmer. 190 pp.

Guileford, Connecticut: Lyons Press, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by this Pulitzer Prize winning author on nature, travel and adventure, from Alaska to Cuba, from the Khyber Pass to Kenya in Africa, originally published in 2004. This is a special reprinted edition, SIGNED by the author on the front free-end paper. 317 pp. ISBN: 978-0762796519.

New York: Random House, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - An attractive large format book illustrated with many photographs, focusing primarily on the parks in North America and Africa.

London: Thornton Butterworth, Limited, (1928). Hardcover first edition - Accounts based on the diaries she kept (to win a bit with her sister) on three journeys to East Africa, including Zanzibar and Uganda in 1901, to South Africa in 1919 and to Canada and America in 1920. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 17 internal plates. Index. xv, 286 pp.

New York: Summit Books, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Chatwin's first book, one which redefined travel writing, a record of a six month stay in Patagonia in 1974 but much more, including reflections on his childhood and the stories of other travellers to the area. Chatwin himself called it a "Quest or Wonder Voyage. It is about wandering and exile and its structure is as old as literature itself." Sources. 203 pp. ISBN: 0-671-400452.

Edmonton: M.G.Hurtig, (1971). Hardcover first edition - A title in the Canadiana Reprint Series. Originally published in Canada in 1931, this edition has a new introduction by Lewis H. Thomas and the oriignal notes by A. G. Doughty and Gustave Lanctot. Illustrated. 311 pp. Fold-out map bound at rear. ISBN: 0-888300352.

New York: Stuart Wright, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of a trip by camel into the Sahara to climb the Hoggar mountains of southern Algeria, joining a caravan to Tamanrasset, where the Touareg nomads gave her the name of Tamrart Ð meaning dominant female. Illustrated with drawings by Lily Hamlin. Although Clark's career as a writer was eclipsed by that of her husband, Robert Penn Warren, her writing, and especially her evocative travel accounts, have been highly praised. Clark and Warren were the only couple where both were awarded the National Book Award for separate works. Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page "with lots of love, good wishes, admiration" and dated in the year of publication. 106 pp. ISBN: 0-913773-158.

London: T. Whitingham & Co, Ltd, (1929). Hardcover first edition - A study of the resorts of Brighton, Bournemouth, Eastbourne, Hastings, Torquay, Folkestone and Worthing. Illustrated with many photographs. Index xxiii, 404 pp.

New York: Broadway Books, (2000). First edition - An American writer and his wife find a new home in the 16th century hill town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. 264 pp.

[Anchorage, Alaska:] By the author, (1979.). First edition - INSCRIBED by Conn on the title page "For Bill, a loyal fan and true Alaskan." Selections from the author's column in the Anchorage Daily News - the author is a professor of justice at the University of Alaska who had lived in Anchorage and Fairbanks for 7 years at the time this was published. 152 pp.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1979) dj. Hardcover - Essays on men, women and children who have that "unappeasable desire" to go beyond what is known and familiar - including seekers after Altlantis, the seven cities of Cibola, the northwest passage, legendary figures like Prester John, and more. Bibliography. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-030461618.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays on men, women and children who have that "unappeasable desire" to go beyond what is known and familiar - including seekers after Altlantis, the seven cities of Cibola, the northwest passage, legendary figures like Prester John, and more. Bibliography. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-030461618.

New York: Walker, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Armchair adventure for the reader with a keen interest in both natural history and exotic culture... Here is an 'on the road'tale that combines a naturist's observations, misadventures, encounters with birds and people - and discoveries about himself - during several months in backcountry Mexico." Accounts of life among the Nahuat Indians, and several sections describing the birds. Illustrated with drawings by Kelli Glancey.Index. xi, 196 pp. ISBN: 0-802711529.

New York: Picador, 1997. First edition - Subtitled: a man, a family and a vintage wooden boat.

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836. Hardcover first edition - Only one volume of 4 published anonymously by Cooper (the first two volumes were published as Part I and the second two were published as Part 2.) Written in the form of letters and describing Switzerland in 1828, although the final letter is a description of a visit to Milan. Cloth with a paper label on the spine. 236 pages. Very uncommon.

Minneapolis: New Rivers Press, (1997). First edition - The second in a series of New Rivers Press anthologies of women's travel writing, issued in a first edition of only 3000 copies. The 47 contributors range in occupation from writers to teachers to mountain climbers, writing from locations as diverse as Ireland, China, and the Sahara Desert. Among the contributors are Faith Adiele, Anita Feng, Theodosia Greene, Rachel Hall, Lynn Hugo and many more. Notes on contributors. xvii, 435 pp. ISBN: 0-898231795.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin - Mariner, 2011. First edition - Selected and with an introduction by Sloane Crosley. Contributors include Andre Aciman, Christopher Buckley, Maureen Dowd, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Ariel Levy, Ta Obreht, Annie Proulx, Gary Shteyngart, William T. Vollmann, Emily Witt, and more. Notes on contributors. 255 pp. ISBN: 978-0547333366.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first nonfiction book by the author of the Dirk Pitt series. An account of the discovery of 12 shipwrecks by Cussler and his NUMA volunteers (National Underwater and Marine Agency foundation.), including the Union frigate 'Cumberland' sunk during the Civil War, the World War I American troop transport, the 'Leopoldville' and others. Photographs.List of shipwrecks surveyed, index. 364 pp. ISBN: 0-684-830272.

New York: Putnam, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - More true adventures with famous shipwrecks by the author of the Dirk Pitt series. Stories of the 'ghost ship' the Mary Celeste found floating off the Azores; the Carpathia which rescued Titanic survivors only to be sunk by U-boats ; L'oiseau Blanc, the plane that disappeared in the Maine woods on a transatlantic crossing 6 years before Lindbergh, and much more. Photographs. Current list of NUMA searches and discoveries. 446 pp. ISBN: 0-399-149252.

New York: Viking, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of nineteen stories which "chronicles voyages and visits, trips and travels." Includes stories by Paul Theroux, James Salter, Elizabeth Jolley, John Updike, Sue Miller, Alice Munro, William Trevor, Lorrie Moore, Kate Braverman, Steve Millhauser and others. Edited and with an introduction by Larry Dark. Biographical notes. xiii, 354 pp. ISBN: 0-670845787.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Lone Pine Publishing (1992). First edition - The author, a Harvard ethnobotanist, writes with empathy and understanding and personal experience about indigenous tribes from the tropics to the Arctic circle. Included are chapters on shamanic healing, the plants of the gods - and on the end of the wild. Photographs. 156 pp. ISBN: 1551050269.

New York: Stonehill Publishing, (1973.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Attractive new edition of a book set in the 1920's and originally published in 1930 - a classic tale of "man and the sea" - a mixture of adventure story set in Egypt and Somalia and other places in the Arab world, and of mysticism and self-discovery and closeness with nature. Includes a new afterword by the author in which he discusses the good that hashish and opiates can do when used in their natural state versus the use of them as an escape from reality. Translated from the French by Helen Buchanan Bell (the afterword was translated by Helen Weaver.) 287 pp. Dust jacket art by Ted Bernstein. ISBN: 0-88373-0065.

New York Bloomsbury, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Story of the adventures of an intrepid young woman and her 19 year old cat who take a road trip accross the US. Color photographs. Map endpapers. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-58234-0544.

New York: Norton, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - New York born author's idiosyncratic look at his adopted homeland - illustrated with double page, black and white photographs by Patrick Prendergast. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-393027600.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - A state-by-state listing of significant sites in African American history. Index. 247 pages.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - A state-by-state listing of significant sites in African American history. Preface by Senator Edward W. Brooke. Index. xiv, 247 pp.

New York: Harper & Brothers, nd (ca 1928) dj. Hardcover - One of five books on Central Africa by this French explorer reissued and rewritten with illustrations by Erick Berry (both full page black and white drawings and many smaller entexte pictures) for younger readers (1216 years indicated on dust jacket.) New introduction by Du Chaillu. Includes accounts of elephant hunting, village life, even cannibals, witch doctors, the barracoons in which slaves were kept before being shipped overseas and much more. 290 pp.

New York: A Studio Book / The Viking Press, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - As a writer, Durrell's work is "steeped in the living experience of the Mediterranean and especially the islands of Greece. This text weaves together evocative descriptions, history and myth (including flowers and festivals) with his personal reminiscences." Illustrated throughout with photographs, including many full-page and in full-color. Maps. Index. A small quarto. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-670352969.