Adventure from Lems Bookshop

A guide to 30 of the worlds best train trips. Covers the full range of options, detailed itineraries, fast facts, photos and maps. 181 pages with numerous colour illustrations and maps. Book in very good condition with section of back cover ?price, bar code removed but inside cover intact (book would be near fine but for this).

Signed by the author. In 1996 Tim Jarvis set out to relive Douglas Mawson's extraordinary polar survival journey of 1912-13. Jarvis undertook the hellish journey using the same equipment, clothing and starvation rations as Mawson had available. The story of two journeys undertaken nearly a century apart, to the limits of human endurance. 239 pages with numerous colour illustrations throughout.… Read more about this item

The story of Australian journalist W H Donald and his role in the birth of modern China in the first half of the 20th century. 370 pages with 16 pages of illustrations and a map. Book in very good condition.

In the Summer of 1865 the Confederate States Ship Shenandoah siled into Pport Phillip Bay. When the sleek black raider left after three weeks on 19 February there are 42 Australians on board who have enlisted to fight for the South in the American Civil War. 371 pages with 8 pages of illustrations. Book in very good+ condition.

The book is divided into four main headings; The Book of the Statues; The Book of the Pyramids; The Book of the Towers; The Book of the Temples and the discoveries and acheivements of the archaeolologists. 433 pages with 32 black and white Plates and some other illustrations. Book in very good+ condition with previous owners name inside front cover… Read more about this item

On 5 June 1988 Kay Cottee fulfilled a childhoos dream, After 189 days at sea and over 22,000 nautical miles she became the first woman in history to complete a solo non-stop and unassisted voyage around the globe. 226 pages with 24 pages of colour illustrations and some black and white charts and end paper map. Book and dust jacket… Read more about this item

The author's travels mainly in the North of Australia from Perth to Darwin, to Alice Springs and Ayers Rock, to Port Augusta back to Perth. 294 pages with 28 black and white illustrations, 3 maps and endpaper map. Book in very good condition with small tear bottom front cover. No dust jacket.

In 1796 Calcutta-based Scottish merchants Campbell&Clark dispatched an Indian ship hurriedly renamed the Sydney Cove to the colony of New South Wales hoping to make their fortune as the cargo consisted of all manner of goods to entice the new colony;s inhabitants including 7,000 gallons of rum. When the ship went down cargo master William Clark and sixteen crew were… Read more about this item

The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history - James Porter and some other prisoners at Macquarie Harbour in Tasmania pulled off an audicious escape and sailed all the way to Chile - what happened next is stranger than fiction. 323 pages, Book in very good condition. I also have The Ghost & the Bounty Hunter $18 and Three Sheets to the… Read more about this item

The finding of a lost civilization and what that involves is the subject of this fascinating, original and remarkable book. The author made his discovery in 1953 on the island of Bahrain. Founded in the thirtieth century BC Dilmun was a sea-trading power. 392 pages with 32 plates, 41 drawings and 9 maps. Book in very good+ condition with inscription… Read more about this item

Some of the colourful heroes of the Bush, relatively unrecognised as seemingly every act of courage and daring always seemed to be accompanied by a touch of scandal and disrepute where the larrikin spirit went a touch to far thus becoming our tarnished heroes. 192 pages with numerous illustrations throughout many in colour. Book and dust jacket in as new… Read more about this item

The author and his girlfriend hitchhike 8,000 miles around outback Australia. 281 pages with endpaper maps. Book in very good condition.

From humble beginnings in outback South Australia, George Hubert Wilkins lived the most remarkable life of any Australian. He worked in motion pictures, journalism, photography capturing iconic pictures in World Wat 1, as a spy, explorer, chronicler of the planet and its lifeforms, aviation, navigation and as a submariner. Truly a legendary man. 549 pages with 16 pages of photographs… Read more about this item

The author was the first person to walk the Flinders Ranges from end to end, Crystal Brook to Mount Hopeless, and he gained an intimate knowledge of the Ranges.231 pages with 32 mainly colour plates, 9 maps, 2 Diagrams and endpaper map. Book in very good+ condition Dust jacket in good+ condition with small piece missing top spine, small tear… Read more about this item

Reissue of the original 1920 edition. In August 1914 twenty eight men aboard the ship Endurance began what was to be the last of the great explorations - the crossing of the vast Antarctic land mass, It turned into one of the most remarkable survival stories ever recorded. 376 pages with over 85 photographs and illustrations from the journey. Book… Read more about this item

The author's account of the 1,500 mile trek from the mouth of the Gages River upstream into the mountains where the river has its beginnings, The expedition became an exhilarating journey giving a rare view into the heart and soul of India. 273 pages with 13 colour and 47 black and white illustrations, 9 maps and drawings and endpaper map.… Read more about this item

In the southern summer 1977-78 the author and eight crew mounted an expedition in the yacht Solo to sail Antarctic waters - the story of the expedition and some of their findings especially on little known Balleny Islands and Cape Adare. 144 pages with 18 pages of colour photographs and many black and white illustrations in the text. … Read more about this item

The author travels through South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Tanzania, and four Indian Ocean islands. 264 pages with 85 colour photographs, 4 drawings, 9 maps and endpaper photograph. Book in very good condition ex library with sticker on front endpaper, stamp on bottom leading edge, borrowing sleeve remnants on back endpapers and light tanning. Dust jacket in very good condition in… Read more about this item

The authors travel throughout South Africa and record what things entertained and excited them. 446 pages with 44 black and white illustrations, 4 maps and endpaper maps. Boo in very good condition with previous owners details on front endpaper. Dust jacket in very good condition with some wear to edges.

The author lived and worked for thirty five years in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea and he records the people and places he saw. 235 pages with 33 black and white illustrations. Book in very good condition.