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RIVER-HORSE: The Logbook of a Boat Across America.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of his journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific using inland waterways of the United States - a trip which covered 5000 miles - more than any other cross-country river traveler has ever managed, and which often retraced the journey of some of our most famous explorers from Henry Hudson to Lewis and Clark Maps, photographs. xii, 506 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-395-636264.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 49762More details Price: $20.00 -
RIVER-HORSE: The Logbook of a Boat Across America.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. First edition - An account of his journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific using inland waterways of the United States - a trip which covered 5000 miles - more than any other cross-country river traveler has ever managed, and which often retraced the journey of some of our most famous explorers from Henry Hudson to Lewis and Clark Maps, photographs. xii, 506 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.
Book ID: 51756More details Price: $16.50 -
RIVER HORSE: The Logbook of a Boat Across America.
Edition: Advance excerpt (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. SIGNED first edition - An account of his journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific using inland waterways of the United States - a trip which covered 5000 miles - this except includes Part VII - the Lower Missouri River. Double page schematic of the 'Nikawa.' SIGNED on the title page. 31 pp.
Condition: Fine in stapled cream wrappers.
Book ID: 59527More details Price: $21.50 -
ROADS TO QUOZ: An American Mosey.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Little, Brown & Co. (2008). First edition - A personal account of a series of journeys into small towns across America. 566 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60705More details Price: $18.00 -
JACK HARKER'S BOY TINKER AMONG THE TURKS: Being the Conclusion of the "Adventures of Young Jack Harkaway and His Boy Tinker" (#15)
Edition: Reprint.
Condition: Good overall in burgundy cloth with black lettering, black, gold and orange illustration on the front cover (front hinge cracked)
Book ID: 63867More details Price: $18.00 -
VOYAGE TO CALIFORNIA, WRITTEN AT SEA 1852: The Journal of Lucy Kendall Herrick.
Edition: 2nd printing.
San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, (1998.) dj. Hardcover - Account of 24 year old Lucy Kendall Herrick's 137-day voyage in 1852 from New York to San Francisco via Cape Horn, aboard the 'Josephine', a 947-ton, three-masted freighter, a trip made with her mother, sister and family friend, to rejoin her father in the gold mines. One of the few accounts written by women about sea journeys during that era. Introduction by Andrew Rolle. Illustrated with photographs. Notes, bibliography and index. A handsomely produced book, somewhat oversized. 135 pp. ISBN: 0-87328-1659.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 44366More details Price: $24.50 -
AFRICA SPEAKS: A Story of Adventure: The Chronicle of the First Trans-African Journey by Motor Truck from Mombasa on the Indian Ocean to Lagos on the Atlantic, through Central Equatorial Africa.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good condition overall in black cloth with gold lettering and stamped illustration of a lion's head on the front cover (prev owner's name, some shelfwear to the edges of the boards and at the ends of the spine, rubbing to the gold on the front cover.)
Book ID: 38744More details Price: $95.00 -
MOUNTAINS AND A MONASTERY.
Edition: First printing.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1958. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the expedition of Peter Holmes and his wife, Judy, to the Himalayas especially the mountainous desert province of Spiti, on the borders of Tibet. This book focuses on both the mountain-climbing adventures and on the people who live in the area (especially the story of one remarkable young boy - Shiring Dawa.) Illustrated with several sections of black and white photographs by the author, contains 2 folding maps. Index. 191 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 40620More details Price: $30.00 -
CHILDREN OF THE COUNTRY: Coast to Coast across Africa.
Edition: First printing.
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a three-month coast-to-coast journey across Africa - by tugboat, car, single track train, small plane and on foot - from Boma at the mouth of the Congo to the island of Lamu on the east coast. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-241117429.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (significant tanning to the pages, else fine)
Book ID: 75895More details Price: $18.00 -
FAR-FLUNG HUBBELL: Essays from the American Road.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (very light foxing on top edge)
Book ID: 84954More details Price: $18.50 -
WANDERING IN FRANCE
Edition: First edition.
Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1941. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A description of a leisurely journey through France before World War II - illustrated with maps, photographs. INSCRIBED by the author on front pastedown: " To.... with the good wishes of his friend.."
Condition: VG+ in a poor dustjacket (both flaps are detached, but still present, and there is some loss of paper at both edges of the dj.)
Book ID: 4801More details Price: $38.00 -
HUMBOLDT CURRENT: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 47149More details Price: $18.00 -
OUT OF CALL OR CRY: The Island of Sark.
Edition: First edition.
London: Heinemann, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first non-fiction work - an account of life on the smallest of the Channel Islands (and the last British territory liberated in World War II.) Told mostly in the voices of the islanders. Map preceding the text. Bibliography. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-434365327.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 75033More details Price: $20.00 -
THE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING 2004.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. SIGNED first edition - Includes a foreword by Jason Wilson, series editor, and an introduction by Pico Iyer. Collects 26 of the best essays from both commercial and literary publications in 2003. Includes contributions from Joan Didion, Adam Gopnik, Bill McKibben, John McPhee, George Packer, Patrick Symmes and others. SIGNED by Iyer on the title page. Notes on contributors. xxiv, 332 pp. ISBN: 0-618341269.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78629More details Price: $27.50 -
COLLECTED TRAVEL WRITINGS: THE CONTINENT: A Little Tour of France; Italian Hours; Other Travels.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Library of America, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second volume of Henry James travel writings in the Library of America series (number 65 in series), edited and with notes by Richard Howard. His travel writings display the distinctive charm of his style, serve as guidebooks and including penetrating reflections on the national characteristics and charm. This volume begins with the classic 'A Little Tour in France', illustrated with Joseph Pennell's drawings from the original 1900 edition. The final piece is on the American volunteer motor-ambulance corps in France, during the first World War. Includes chronology, glossary, notes, index. 845 pp. Lists to this title at rear of book. ISBN: 0-940450771.
Condition: Very near fine in tan cloth with ribbon marker in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 87055More details Price: $21.50 -
THE DEVIL'S LABYRINTH: Encounters with the Arctic.
Edition: First printing.
Shrewsbury, UK: Swan Hill Press, (1995). Hardcover first edition - A combination of a history of polar exploration and an account of the author's own attempt to reach the North Pole. Illustrated with full-color photographs. Select bibliography, index. 144 pp. ISBN: 1-853102113.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (embossed seal of previous owner)
Book ID: 73303More details Price: $17.50 -
THE LIFE, MANNERS, AND TRAVELS OF FANNY TROLLOPE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hawthorn Books, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography. ISBN: 0-8015-25578.
Condition: Large stamp on ffep indicating that this book was sold by a library - but this is an uncirculated, and apparently unread, copy - would be fine in a fine dustjacket if not for the stamp.
Book ID: 21584More details Price: $14.00 -
SHOOTING THE BOH : A Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo.
Edition: Second printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Vintage Books, (1992). SIGNED - An account of a 3-day rafting voyage down an uncharted section of the Boh River in Borneo, where journalist Tracy Johnston knew little in advance of the adventure she had signed up for - including treacherous rapids, foot rot, leeches, swarms of sweat-eating of bees, swimming cobras and more. In addition, she learned what it was like to be a woman adventurer on the wrong side of forty. INSCRIBED on the half title page "To - Here's to many more adventures in mid-life. PS. Thanks for your leech stories." 256 pp. ISBN: 0-679740104.
Condition: Very good (usual toning to the pages, crease on back cover)
Book ID: 81797More details Price: $18.50 -
THE DARK HEART OF ITALY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: North Point Press (Farrar Strauss), (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An Incisive Portrait of Europe's Most Beautiful, Most Disconcerting Country" - In 1999, Jones emigrated to Italy and the country he discovered there turned out to be far from the pastoral bliss described by centuries of travel writers, and instead he found one beseiged by almost unfathomable terrorism and paranoia. Notes, index. 314 pp. ISBN: 9780865477001.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 42445More details Price: $18.00 -
THE ROAD OF DREAMS: A Two-Year Bicycling and Hiking Adventure Around the World.
Edition: First edition, a trade paperback original.
Rapid City, SD: Images of the World. (1991). SIGNED first edition - An account of a husband and wife's 26-month around-the-world bicycle trip. "They crossed four continents through sweltering temperatures and winter snowstormspunctuated by 42 flats." A book designed to promote awareness of the world's culture and respect for the environment. INSCRIBED on the first page by Junek. Maps. Illustrated with photographs by Tass Thacker. Equipment list, glossary. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-963044818.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79984More details Price: $17.50 -
RUNNING THE AMAZON.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Vintage Books, (1990). SIGNED - The author's first book, a firsthand account of the 1985 Amazon Source to Sea Expedition - the only expedition to travel the entire 4,200 mile length of the Amazon from its origins high in the Peruvian Andes to the Atlantic Ocean. Kane, an award winning environmental reporter was the only American to travel the full distance. INSCRIBED on the first page to the late Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens and dated in 1995. Maps, photographs. xii, 278 pp. ISBN: 0-679-72902x.
Condition: Near fine (ink stamp on top edge)
Book ID: 60951More details Price: $15.00 -
RUNNING THE AMAZON.
Edition: First thus.
Alfred A. Knopf, The Adventure Library. (1995). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book (originally published by Knopf 1989) a firsthand account of the 1985 Amazon Source to Sea Expedition - the only expedition to travel the entire 4,200 mile length of the Amazon from its origins high in the Peruvian Andes to the Atlantic Ocean. Kane, an award winning environmental reporter was the only American to travel the full distance. INSCRIBED on the title endpaper "For.... Best of luck on all your adventures" and dated in 1995. This edition includes a new introduction by Alex Shoumatoff, and a new afterword by the author. Maps, photographs. xvii, 321 pp. ISBN: 1885283024.
Condition: Fine in pale green illustrated boards, over a gray cloth spine.
Book ID: 83786More details Price: $30.00 -
RUNNING THE AMAZON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a firsthand account of the 1985 Amazon Source to Sea Expedition - the only expedition to travel the entire 4,200 mile length of the Amazon from its origins high in the Peruvian Andes to the Atlantic Ocean. Kane, an award winning environmental reporter was the only American to travel the full distance. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to the late Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens - "run the rivers, hike the trails!" and dated in 1996. Maps, photographs. xiv, 278 pp. ISBN: 0-394-553314.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 60950More details Price: $31.50 -
THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: A Journey at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67147More details Price: $20.00 -
DESERT TIME: A Journey Through the American Southwest.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Recounts a journey of over 25,000 miles through American deserts from the Black Rock Desert of Oregon to the Mexican border, with discussion about things like plate tectonics, botany and the animals that live in the deserts, but especially about the people she encounters - Navaho weavers, Hopi silversmiths, children on a reservation, an old prospector and gold miner, a cattleman and a missionary and more. Illustrated with drawings. xvi, 262 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-316482986.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68015More details Price: $17.50 -
I DRIVE THE TURNPIKES AND SURVIVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1956) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which captures a nation on the verge of revolution - the same year that this was published, Eisenhower approved the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 which authorized the construction of the nation's interstates. This book looks at what is involved with high speed driving, including highway hypnosis, learning to drive ahead of your car and more. Illustrated with many drawings. Includes a state-by-state listing of turnpikes, and more. 148 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (some chipping to the top of the dj spine) Very uncommon in the hardcover edition.
Book ID: 70514More details Price: $65.00 -
CHICAGO: FROMMER'S 2000.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: IDG Books, 2000. Includes a removable, folded color map.
Condition: Fine condition.
Book ID: 15075More details Price: $9.00 -
BLACK LIVINGSTON: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84431More details Price: $40.00 -
BLACK LIVINGSTON: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86495More details Price: $25.00 -
SNOWBALL ORANGES: A Winter's Tale on a Spanish Isle.
Edition: First US printing.
Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book - "It's the stuff of dreams: a Scottish family giving up relative sanity and security to go and grow oranges for a living in a secluded valley in the mountains of the Mediterranean island of Majorca. But dreams, as everyone knows, have a nasty habit of not turning out quite as intended. Being greeted by a freak snowstorm is only the first of many surprises and "experiences," and it isn't long before they realize that they have been sold a bit of a lemon of an orange farm by the wily previous owners." Illustrated with drawings at the beginning of each chapter. 226 pp. ISBN: 1-585745480.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76589More details Price: $18.50