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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: 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 -
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 -
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 -
MANANA, MANANA: One Mallorcan Summer.
Edition: First US printing.
Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second memoir, a sequel to Snowball Oranges. "Spring is approaching; the neighboring rooster, General Franco, is crowing earlier and louder; and the author, a Scottish farmer who, with his family, has left his homeland to grow fruit in Mallorca, is up to greet the gorgeous island dawn. . . As Kerr and his family try to adjust their Scottish farming experience to the Mallorcan climate, they are on a steep learning curve, both cultural and agricultural. " Illustrated with drawings at the beginning of each chapter. 231 pp. ISBN: 1-585746371.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76590More details Price: $18.50 -
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 -
THE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING 2005.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. First edition - Includes a foreword by Jason Wilson, series editor, and an introduction by Kincaid. Collects 25 of the best essays from both commercial and literary publications in 2004. Includes contributions from Pam Houston, Tom Bissell, John McPhee, Simon Winchester, William T. Vollmann and others. Notes on contributors. xix, 374 pp. ISBN: 0-61836952x.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88850More details Price: $15.00 -
SKELETONS ON THE ZAHARA: A True Story of Survival.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2004). First edition - After surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Africa in 1815, Captain James Riley and his crew were captured by desert nomads and sold into slavery, and eventually dragged on an incredible journey through the heart of the Saharan desert. Illustrated with maps at the head of each chapter and small photographs. Includes an appendix on the publication of Riley's original account, a glossary of Arabic terms, notes and index. Maps. xi, 336 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 70275More details Price: $21.50 -
SOUTHWESTERN HOMELANDS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Near fine in stiff illustrated wrappers (small dot on bottom edge.)
Book ID: 39387More details Price: $40.00 -
TAI KI: To the Point of No Return.
Edition: First English language edition.
Boston: Little Brown, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - Eight men aboard a replica of 2000 year old Chinese junk attempt to prove that ancient mariners once voyaged from Asia to Central and South America. Translated by Rita and Robert Kimber. Illustrated with full color photographs.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 15445More details Price: $18.00 -
A RUSSIAN LOOKS AT AMERICA: The Journey of Aleksandr Borisovich Lakier in 1857.
Edition: First printing.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - Lakier's account is an uncommon view of America by a Russian, originally published in Russian in 1859 but unknown in English until this publication. It has a confident and optimistic conclusion, but also reveals how someone accustomed to despotism responds to a free society. Translated by Arnold Schrier and Joyce Story. Foreword by Henry Steele Commanger. Illustrated. Index. xli, 272 pp. ISBN: 0-226813134.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 86505More details Price: $24.50 -
THE STARS WEEP.
Edition: First printing.
London: Hutchinson, (1956) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a trip undertaken by two young French ethnologists to trace the remote Indian villages in Bolivia and Peru, including around Lake Titicaca and near Machu Pichu, communities which had been respected by the Incas and not conquered by the Spanish conquistadores. This account is focused more on the people they encountered than on the scientific aspects of the trip, on the sexual and religious customs, on the rites of witchcraft, marriage and death. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury. Illustrated with 36 black and white photographs and 3 drawings. Index. 198 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (short closed tear to back cover of dj)
Book ID: 80418More details Price: $25.00 -
EDGES OF THE EARTH: A Man, A Woman, A Child In The Alaskan Wilderness.
Edition: Book club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).
New York: Henry Holt, (1991.) dj. Hardcover - Leo's story of homesteading - first with his girlfriend in 1981 - and then for 10 years with his young son - in a wild and beautiful land. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-15752.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 46165More details Price: $16.50 -
EDGES OF THE EARTH: A Man, A Woman, A Child In The Alaskan Wilderness.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Leo's story of homesteading - first with his girlfriend in 1981 - and then for 10 years with his young son - in a wild and beautiful land. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-15752.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 86788More details Price: $21.50 -
3 MPH: The Adventures of One Woman's Walk Around the World.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Denver: Tendril Press, )2010). SIGNED first edition - "Pursuing the spirit of adventure and an altruistic goal of raising global awareness and funds for breast cancer, Polly Letofsky broke down barriers and walked across four continents, 22 countries, and covered over 14,000 miles in five years to be the first American woman to successfully walk around the world." INSCRIBED on the half title page. Illustrated with photographs. 423 pp plus 3 pp ads. ISBN: 978-0984154326.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers ("Merry Christmas" on same page as author's inscription) .
Book ID: 67722More details Price: $21.50 -
HIGHWAY 50: Ain't That America.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing. (1993) dj. Hardcover - An account of the author's journey across America on Highway 50 - from aOcean City, Maryland to Sacramento, California. Double page map. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 219 p. ISBN: 1555910734.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58345More details Price: $12.50 -
BACKPACKING ONE STEP AT A TIME.
Edition: First printing.
Seattle: REI Press, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon first edition of this classic guide. Illustrated with many photographs by Keith Gunnar, including some in full color, and cartoons by Bob Cram. Foreword by Jim Whittaker. 356 pages.
Condition: Fine in very good+ dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 21574More details Price: $20.00 -
OPENING THE OYSTER: A Story of Adventure.
Edition: First edition.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1889. Hardcover first edition - Two young men set off to see the world in 1877 - going from New York to the West,with a stop in Chicago - and from there down to Mexico and the pampas of the Argentinas, on a ship and around the world - vivid descriptions, including San Francisco, the Sierras and deserts of California, and much more. glossy frontispiece and many illustrations in the text. Bound in olive green cloth with gold and black lettering and design on the front. 361 pages.
Condition: A very worn copy of this rather uncommon book - the cloth along the lower edges and corners is frayed, with the underlying boards visible, blank bookplate on front endpaper, front prelim pages loose, but not detached, front hinge cracked and rear hinge rather clumsily repaired. Still a good reading copy.
Book ID: 13426More details Price: $25.00 -
BIRD OF LIFE, BIRD OF DEATH: A Naturalist's Jourrney Through a Land of Political Turmoil.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second book, an account of a trip he made in 1983 to Guatemela in search of the quetzal, the bird of life, a bird whose existence in endangered both by loss of habitat and by the civil war raging in Guatemela. A blend of political, social and natural history. Map, selected bibliography, index. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-671-52738x.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (some rubbing to the edges and folds of the dj)
Book ID: 61412More details Price: $18.50 -
BIRD OF LIFE, BIRD OF DEATH: A Naturalist's Jourrney Through a Land of Political Turmoil.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: The Viking Press, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second book, an account of a trip he made in 1983 to Guatemela in search of the quetzal, the bird of life, a bird whose existence in endangered both by loss of habitat and by the civil war raging in Guatemela. A blend of political, social and natural history. Map, selected bibliography, index. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-670-810878.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 61413More details Price: $18.50 -
NO FRIENDS BUT THE MOUNTAINS: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Basic Books, 2017. First edition - A veteran war correspondent, Matloff journeyed to eight "remote mountain communities across the globe - from Albania and Chechnya to Nepal and Colombia - to investigate why so many conflicts occur at great heights. Mountainous regions are home to only ten percent of the world's population yet host a strikingly disproportionate share of the world's conflicts. . . . Traveling to conflict zones across the world, she introduces us to Albanian teenagers involved in ancient blood feuds; Mexican peasants hunting down violent poppy growers; and Jihadists who have resisted the Russian military for decades. At every stop, Matloff reminds us that the drugs, terrorism, and instability cascading down the mountainside affect us all." Bibliographic essay, 238 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncoomon advance issue
Book ID: 84577More details Price: $21.50 -
TIGERS IN THE SNOW.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some scattered pencil underlining and brackets - erasable.)
Book ID: 46764More details Price: $22.00