Search Results: Explorers from Lems Bookshop

Events and lives across the world in the year 1688. 330 pages with 6 illustrations and a map. Book in as new condition.

An engrossing and comprehensive history in four parts; overview, regional variations, politics of specific regions around 1850, and broad look at the transition Africa underwent with the arrival of the colonial powers. 483 pages and an index with 10 maps. Book in very good+ condition with previous owners name crossed out on front endpaper and light tanning. Dust jacket in good condition with small pieces missing top and bottom spine, small tear top back and top edge, some minor knocks and chips, and some rubbing (see photo).

Four hundred years of exploration in the Dangerous Continent. A narrative history placing the reader in the presence of unforgettable personalities in a setting of wildness and natural splendor unlike any other in the world. 288 pages with 45 colour illustrations and 4 maps. Book in very good condition ex library with sticker front endpaper, stamp on publish8ing page, borrowing sleave remnants back endpapers, and light reader wear. Dust jacket in very good condition price clipped with sticker on spine and back. .

The pageant of the American West was a rich mosaic made up of many parts, not all of them essential to its well-being and progress, but all of them interesting and some absorbingly so. 399 pages with 61 black and white plates, 45 drawings and 20 maps including endpaper. Book in very good condition ex library with stamp on first, title, contents pages and leading edges, and borrowing sleave on last page. Cover has stickers on spine and some minor wear (see photos).

Four of the main expeditions to Antarctica between 199 to 1914 are the subject of the book - survival was dependent on man alone without help or advantages of mechanical inventions - a period the author describes as The Heroic Age. 160 pages with 8 pages of black and white photographs and endpaper maps. Book in very good condition ex library with stamp on front endpaper, sticker opposite title page, stamp on publisher page, borrower sleave inside back cover, tanning, minor marks on a few pages. Dust jacket in very good condition in clear wrapper with sticker on spine.

Arthur Philip is best remembered as the founding governor of the convict colony of New South Wales but he voyaged further than a handful of his contemporaries and had a striking eighteenth-century naval career. 315 pages including numerous illustrations throughout the text. Book and dust jacket in as new condition.

The author was a member of the 1953 British Expedition to Mount Everest and describes the background, planning, approach, build-up, assault and aftermath of the successful climb. 300 pages with 8 colour and 48 black and white photographs and a chart of the ascent. Book in very good condition ex library with stamp inside front cover, sticky tape stains on first and last pages, cover and dust jacket, book title written on back endpaper which also has borrowing sleave and small remnant of date borrowed, and inside back cover has card sleave. Cover has reference on spine. Dust jacket in good- condition with tears, chips, sticker on spine, and piece missing inside back flap.

The heroic, the tragic, the bizarre and the humorous highways and byways of Australian exploration. The character and deeds of the brave men and women who mapped the continent and the dreadful risks they took, why they did it and how they managed to (or not) survive. 282 pages. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition.

Four sections; The Ancient East, The Coming of the European, The Dutch and English, The Establishment of British Maritime Supremacy in the East. 386 pages with 16 illustrations and 20 Sketch Maps and endpapers map. Book in good+ condition with many pages having pencil underlining, four pages pen underlining, light tanning, some fading to spine and some wear to cover.

A study of the development of sea-power in the Pacific and Indian Oceans from the earliest times to the middle of the eighteenth century. 385 pages with 15 pages of illustrations, 20 maps and many line drawings. Book in very good condition with some fading. Dust jacket in good condition with some tears and chips (see photo).

Seemingly a successful man Bertram Armytage, popular sportsman, fought in the Boer War, expert horseman, and decorated in London for his achievements as part of Ernest Shackleton's great 1907-1909 polar expedition, went home to Australia and shot himself. 170 pages with 48 pages of black and white illustrations and a map. Book in very good+ condition with small green mark on first page and small sticker on front cover.

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 condition. This is a larger book but no increase in postage in Australia.

Cape horn is the closest land mass to Antarctica and is the only obstacle in the way of storm force winds and mountainous seas. It is the passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans - an essential trade route in the past it became and remains the ultimate test of seamanship. The author has rounded the Cape twice and brings special authority to the telling of the story. 240 pages with 2 maps. Book in very good condition ex library with stamp, sticker and number on back endpaper, and minor marks front endpaper. Dust jacket in very good condition in clear wrapper with sticker on spine and back.

The Robert and Mary Anne Parks collection of Captain James Cook - as close as possible the best combination of material. or finest set of the official voyage accounts that the publisher ever handled. A catalogue of items for sale. 172 pages with colour illustrations on most pages. Book and dust jacket in as new condition.

Between 1768 and 1779 Captain Cook circumnavigated the globe three times in voyages of discovery that broke record after record of exploration, endurance and personal achievement. A graphic and lively account of this great explorer. 192 pages with 20 pages of colour illustrations and black and white illustrations on 77 pages, a map of Cook's voyages and endpaper map. Book in very good+ condition with minor marks pages 22-24, 78-80 and first colour plates. Dust jacket in very good condition with knocks to corners and top and bottom spine.

From his origins as the son of a farm labourer to his violent death in Hawaii, Captain James Cook , in three epic journeys, discovered more of the earth's surface than any other man. 470 pages with some illustrations throughout. Book in very good condition with minor foxing.

A study of the greatest Pacific explorer, Captain James Cook, who undertook three major voyages. 256 pages with 7 black and white plates and 9 maps. Book in very good condition with minor wear.

Between 1492 and 1504 Columbus made four voyages to the West Indies each a drama and paradoxically the great discoverer hated discovery. 208 pages including maps on 3 pages. Book in very good condition with fading. Dust jacket in very good condition with some wear (see photo).

Revised and updated the book gives a comprehensive study, kingdom by kingdom, of the ancient Maya. 240 pages with 366 illustrations, 86 in color. Book in very good+ condition ex library with stamp inside back cover. Cover has minor wear and sticker on spine and back.

A brilliant intuitive navigator, Columbus had bold and challenging ideas which led him to discover America but he died disillusioned and embittered. 224 pages with 16 colour plates and 100 black and white illustrations. Book in very good condition ex library with sticker inside front cover, stamp on publisher page and back endpaper, and borrowing sleave remnants on back endpapers. Dust jacket in very good condition in clear wrapper with sticker on spine and back.