Search Results: Travel from Minotavros Books

New York: AAA World-Wide Travel, Inc, 1968. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. XLII, 278 pp. B&W photos. Some rubbing to covers, curling and creasing to corners.

New York: The Century Co, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo (large). Pictorial cloth. xv, [3], 462 p.p. Illustrated with [24] plates of photographs including frontispiece, plus [1] folding map of South America. Light rubbing to edges, extremities. Slight wear to bottom corners. Spine ends gently bruised. Two closed tears to folding map have been previously repaired with tape. Otherwise interior crisp, clean. In very good condition.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Original red cloth, gilt titling to spine and Appleton device to lower front board. 168 pp. Sunnning to spine and minor bumps to spine ends, else fine.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Quarter green cloth, blue paper boards. ix, 268 pp. B&W photos in text. Fine with mild sunning to top edges. In about fine jacket with some slight sunning to spine and bumping to edges. Part travelogue, part meditiation, Abuses is a bold exploration of central themes in Continental philosophy by one of the most passionate and original thinkers in that tradition writing today. Ranging from the elevated Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, to the living rooms of the Mexican elite, to the streets of Manila, Lingis recounts incidents of state-sponsored violence and the progressive incorporation of third-world peoples into the circuits of exchange of international capitalism.

Mexico: Maupome Y Martinez, 1955. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo. First impression stated. Translated from the Spanish by Leonard Cooper. Tan card wraps, sewn and glued binding, in dust wrapper. Some age toning to wraps and light bumping at edges. Damp stain to fore edge margin. 41 p.p., [48] p.p. B&W photographic plates. DW is bumped at edges, chipped to spine head, darkened at spine, chafed and lightly soiled at rear. Sticker ghost to head of front cover.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1892. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. Full blue cloth. 317 pp. Rebacked, with original spine laid down. Spine sunned. Paper repairs to foot of ffep. In original slipcase, which is lightly edge worn and scuffed, VG overall. Armorial bookplate of the Selden family and ex libris of Lynde Selden. Across the Plains is the second part of Stevenson's three-part travel memoir, in which he describes arriving in New York as an immigrant from Scotland and traveling across the United States to Monterey, California. It was written from 1879-80 and first published in 1892.

London: Routledge, 2012. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility. Hard cover. xv, 180 pp. A few spots of delamination at top and tail of joints, else fine.

New York: Doubleday, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Quarter brown paper, tan paper boards. 229 p.p. [16] p.p. B&W photo plates. Light bruising to spine ends, tail edge and fore edge of front board. Some light bumping to extremities of dust jacket. The Adventurist is one man's story, a story that will change the way you think about travel, survival, where you have been, and where you are going.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. New enlarged edition. Orig. orange cloth. xxiii, 247 pp. [6] B&W plates and numerous illustrations and maps in text. Light rubbing to extremities, bruise to top edge of front board. Light staining to top edge of text block. Dust jacket is lightly age toned, bumped to extremities, some light foxing, long open tear to food of front cover (repaired at reverse with tape).

s.l.: XLibris, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. SIGNED with inscription to title page. Full navy cloth. 105 pp. B&W illustration in text. Light rubbing to extremities, else fine.

London: Edward and Arnold, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Printed for private circulation for friends and family of the authors. [6] 148 p.p. [3] folding maps of the Booth's journey from Para to Lima (3,500 miles), Iquitos to Lima (1,300 miles), Yessupi to Oroya (225 miles) with in-text photographs. Frontispiece of the Pachitea River, nearing the foot of the Andes. Front and rear inner hinge cracked. Spine tilted and sunned. Light rubbing to boards and edges. Notes on front and rear pastedown endpapers and contents page. Otherwise a very good copy. Recounts the couples 1908 journey from London to Lima, via the Amazon river as recounted from Mrs. Booth's diary entries.

London: John Murray, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. tan cloth. xvi, 354 pp. [24] pp. B&W photos, B&W frontis. Folding B&W maps at rear. Bruising to extremities, spine tilted, light spotting to rear board. Foxing to edges of text block and endpapers.

Toronto: Betelgeuse Books, 1983. Limited Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Tan paper wraps, sewn and glued binding. xiii, 189 pp. B&W photos. Scuffs to head of front cover, stain to front, spine sunned.

[Toronto?]: W. Wallace Near, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Quarter navy cloth, blue cloth boards, colour pictorial onlay, gilt title to front board. Map endpapers. 45 pp. Spine shaken. Small stain to rear board. In custom slip box. Box is edge worn, in good condition.

Canada: Board of Information of The United Church of Canada, 1962. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo. Orig. illustrated wrappers. 156 pp. B&W illustration in text. Spine and corners creased, spot of wear from tape removal to front joint.

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full cream cloth. x, 188 pp. Spine slightly tilted, small bump to fore edge of text block. Light bumps to top edges of dust jacket. Else fine. Ours is a century of uprootedness, with fewer and fewer people living out their lives where they are born. At such a time, in such a world, what does it mean to be "at home?" Perhaps among a nomadic people, for whom dwelling is not synonymous with being housed and settled, the search for an answer to this question might lead to a new way of thinking about home and homelessness, exile and belonging. At Home in the World is the story of just such a seach. Intermittently, over a period of three years, Michael Jackson lived, worked, and traveled extensively in Central Australia. This book chronicles his experience among the Walpiri of the Tanami Desert.

Chicago: Rand McNally, 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to. Blue cloth boards with gold lettering to front board and spine. 168 p.p. Over 100 illustrations depicting maps by Ptolemy, Pizzigano, Martellus, Columbus, de La Cosa, Contarini, Waldseemuller, Re'is, Cortes, Vespucci, Munster, Cabot, Homem, Mercator, Hondius, Baozio, and Wright as well as many other famous mapmakers of the time. Pictorial dust jacket is price clipped, sunned at head, bumped at edges, lightly worn to fore edges at flaps, dents and scuffs to rear joint. The Atlas of Columbus and the Great Discoveries brings to us on the eve of the 500th Anniversay of Christopher Columbus's discovery of America, a treasury of maps from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Age of Discovery. From a wealth of manuscript maps, portolan sea charts, woodcuts, and copperplate engravings, the author selected the most significant materials of the period. The text conveys concisely, authoritatively, and absorbingly each one's importance,… Read More

London and Sydney: Alvin Redman Limited, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Orig. blue cloth, 250pp. Illustrated with 24 b/w plates plus 1 folding map of Austria. Spine ends bumped o/w near fine in a soiled but o/w near fine d/w. A family travelogue through the stunning landscapes of Austria.

New York: Collins Design, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Lewis, Matthew. 12" x 10" First edition, first printing stated. Oblong. Thick stamped paper board over brown cloth spine. With green sleeve wrapper. Near fine overall. A stunning look at some of the most forward-thinking ecolodges in the world's most exotic destinations. Featuring more than 300 full-colour photographs, detailed architectural sketches, and a rating system specially developed by ecolodge and ecotourism expert Hitesh Mehta, this book is the definitve word on what makes an ecolodge truly authentic.

London: Sold at the Tower, 1930. Soft cover. Very Good. 4.75" x 7.25" Orig. green card wrappers. 32 pp., [6] pp. ads. [1] fold-out map, B&W photos. Toning to crappers, creasing to corners, rusting to staples. Ink ownership inscription to head of front cover. Creasing and light foxing to last page. Toning to interior.