Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. dj. First edition - From the dustjacket flap: 'Traveling by tugboat, canoe, train, a nd on foot, Ben Bachman takes us on a voyage up the Connecticut, from its mouth on Long Island Sound to its headwaters in the wildness of Northern New Hampshire. .. He writes of wildlife and plant life, of the rise and fall of the mills and railroads, of Indians and pioneers, of the Gilded Age on the lower river and dairy farming on the upper.' ix, map, 217 pp. ISBN: 0-395-343895.

New York: Carroll & Graf, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Bainbridge's twelth novel, and considered by some to be her best. A brilliantly fictionalized account of Scott's doomed Antarctic expedition in 1912.

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, (1980.) dj. Hardcover - The dramatic story of the first all-women's ascent of one of the most challenging peaks in the Himalayas, by the leader of the expedition: In 1978 Arlene Blum led an all-womenÕs expedition to the North Face of 26,545 foot Annapurna in Nepal. On October 15, Irene Beardsley Miller and Vera Komarkova, along with two Sherpas, Mingma Tsering and Chewang Rinjee, reached the top. Miller and Komarkova were the first women and the first Americans to stand on AnnapurnaÕs summit. Along with American and Nepalese flags, they unfurled a banner with the expedition slogan, "A WomanÕs Place Is on Top." Foreword by Maurice Herzog. Somewhat oversized illustrated with many photographs. Bibliography, index. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-87156-2367.

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, (1980.) dj. Hardcover - The dramatic story of the first all-women's ascent of one of the most challenging peaks in the Himalayas, by the leader of the expedition: In 1978 Arlene Blum led an all-womenÕs expedition to the North Face of 26,545 foot Annapurna in Nepal. On October 15, Irene Beardsley Miller and Vera Komarkova, along with two Sherpas, Mingma Tsering and Chewang Rinjee, reached the top. Miller and Komarkova were the first women and the first Americans to stand on AnnapurnaÕs summit. Along with American and Nepalese flags, they unfurled a banner with the expedition slogan, ÒA WomanÕs Place Is on Top.Ó Foreword by Maurice Herzog. Somewhat oversized illustrated with many photographs. Bibliography, index. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-87156-2367.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, (1979.) dj. Hardcover - Originally published in 1953 in the UK. In this book, the author travelled 'southwards from the Mediterranean coast to the sands, the heart of the Sahara, and beyond to the savannas of the Sudan and the fringes of the great forests' - to Niger, Libya and French Equatorial Africa. Illustrated with 33 photographs, mostly of art and architectural ruins. Index. 212 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-837151864.

New York Broadway Books / Random House (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's personal account of traveling in Australia - he reports on the inhabitants, the weather, and the wildlife and the more desolate parts of the country as well as the things that might very well make it the best of all possible nations. Maps, bibliography, 307 pp. ISBN: 0-7679-03854.

Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society Publishers, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the history of exploration of Antarctica, "beginning with the imaginative ideas of early Greek geographers, tells of the first South Seas voyages, the rugged adventures of the sealers and whalers of the 18th and 19th centuries, and the first major American expedition" and including the expeditions of James Wedell, Scott, Shackleton, Byrd and more. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Bibliography, Index. 279 pp.

Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Essays focusing on the great explorers - and on eccentrics, dreamers, scientists, cranks and geniuses. Includes all of the contents of two previous collections - The White Lantern and A Long Desire - plus two additional essays not previously published in book format. SIGNED on the title page. Bibliography. 470 pp. ISBN: 1582431620.

Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays focusing on the great explorers - and on eccentrics, dreamers, scientists, cranks and geniuses. Includes all of the contents of two previous collections - The White Lantern and A Long Desire - plus two additional essays not previously published in book format. Bibliography. 470 pp. ISBN: 1582431620.

New York: McGraw-Hill, (1979) dj. Hardcover - An account of some of the early botanists, explorers and foot-loose travellers brought us such things as coffee, tea and chocolate, spices from black pepper to nutmeg, cloves and more - as well as medicinal herbs like quinine from the "fever bark tree." Bibliography, index. vii, 278 pp. ISBN: 0-070172900.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the enterprising women who sailed on oceangoing merchant ships throughout the nineteenth century - an interweaving of first person accounts from letters and journals with Druett's narrative of sea journeys. Illustrated with photographs and line drawings. Includes an appendix listing the names of all such women who kept journals. Index. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-684-839687.

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: Harper Collins, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - In 1528-1537, "a group of three Spanish noblemen and an African survived shipwreck, famine, Indian attack, and disease to make the first crossing of North America in recorded history. . . Goodwin's groundbreaking research in original Spanish archives has led him to a radical new interpretation of American historyone in which an African slave named Esteban emerges as the nation's first great explorer and adventurer" leading them from Florida along the Gulf Coast to Texas and eventually to Mexico City, and from there he was sent to establish a permanent Spanish route from Mexico into what is now New Mexico and Arizona. Illustrated. Buibliography, notes, index. xviii, 414 pp. ISBN: 978-0061140440.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Definitive history of the maritime disaster caused by the collision of the ocean liner Andrea Doria with the Swedish liner Stockholm in the fog 1956 off the island of Nantucket on the Massachusetts coast. In the eleven hours before the ship sunk, 1700 people were rescued. The ill-fated voyage is recreated using interviews, court documents, memoirs and this book presents technical findings that shed new light on the causes of the disaster. Photographs, sources, index.viii, 294 pp. ISBN: 0-471-38934X.

New York: Crowell, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel based on the historic journey of Stephens and Catherwood in 1830s through southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Yucatan peninsula, in which they rediscovered the ruins of the Mayan civilization in search of the lost Maya kingdom, (Stephen and Catherwood were the authors of the books 'Incidents of Travel in the Yucatan' and 'Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and the Yucatan'.) Author's note, bibliography. Illustrated. 242 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-690-017588.

New York: Crowell, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel based on the historic journey of Stephens and Catherwood in 1830's through southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Yucatan peninsula, in which they rediscovered the ruins of the Mayan civilization in search of the lost Maya kingdom, (Stephen and Catherwood were the authors of the books 'Incidents of Travel in the Yucatan' and 'Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and the Yucatan'.) Author's note, bibliography. Illustrated. 242 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-690-017588.

New York: Crowell, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel based on the historic journey of Stephens and Catherwood in 1830's through southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Yucatan peninsula, in which they rediscovered the ruins of the Mayan civilization in search of the lost Maya kingdom, (Stephen and Catherwood were the authors of the books 'Incidents of Travel in the Yucatan' and 'Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and the Yucatan'.) Author's note, bibliography. Illustrated. 242 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-690-017588.

New York: H. Z. Walck / David McKay, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - In addition to information on the origins of scrimshaw, this includes a brief history of whaling. Illustrated throughout with black and whitel photographs. Glossary, bibliography, index. Slightly oversized. x, 269 pp. ISBN: 0-809839245.

New York: Hyperion, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The true of Dr. Jerri Nielsen, the physician stranded at a South Pole research station who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer until she could be airlifted out several months later. In addition, though, this is a book about the wonders of Antarctica and of the difficulties encountered by the scientists and researchers there. Boldly INSCRIBED on the title by Nielsen. Map, photographs. xvi, 362 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-66845.

New York: Hyperion, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Neilsen was the physician at the Admundsen-Scott South Pole Station when she discovered a lump in her breast after the ice had set in, isolating the station from any help. This is her account of how she treated herself, of the support of the other members, and finally was air-lifted out in a dangerous rescue flight. Illustrated with photograhs. 362 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-66845.

New York: Putnam, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel based on the life of Sir Walter Raleigh, and told in his self-critical, urgent and truthful voice, spanning the years from 1618 to 1660. 387 pp. Dust jacket art by Craig Dodd. ISBN: 0-399-127607.

New York: The Viking Press, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of one of the largest voyages of discovery in the history of the world and the last such all-sail convoy. Under the Command of Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, and despite losing two ships and 71 men, the expedition -which included botanists, geologists, biologists and mapmakers - logged 87,000 miles, discovered a new Southern continent which Wilkes named Antarctica, surveyed 280 Pacific islands and created 180 charts and collected thousands of specimens which eventually became the foundation of the Smithsonian Institution. Solidly researched and a fascinating story. Illustrated with drawings and maps, Notes, selected bibliography, index. 452 pp. ISBN: 0-67003231X.

New York: Frederick Fell, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which highlights Rieseberg's career in searching for sunken wrecks on the ocean floor. Illustrated with photographs and maps. 217 pp.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1961.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Old Man is gone now, except in the Boy's memory - and the boy has left North Carolina to begin his life of travel and adventure. lllustrated with line drawings by Walter Dower. 302 pp.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the first joint British Soviet mountaineering expedition in which the team reached the summit of Pik Kommunizma, the highest mountain in Soviet Asia's Pamirs, and an expedition which saw the death of 2 British climbers. Illustrated with maps and photographs in color and black and white. 264 pp, index.

London: John Murray, (1970, c 1958.) dj. Hardcover - Travels along the coast of Turkey mostly by horseback and jeep. Illustrated with numerous, and often very striking, black and white photographs by the author. Folding map (tri-fold,with 3 maps.) References, bibliography and index. xiii, 283 pp. ISBN: 0-7195-13324.