Search Results: Authors starting with D from Barking Mad Books

RUWENZORI, Filippo De Filippi, Archibald Constable, London, 1909, first edition, 2nd imp, 403 pages VG+ hardback in original red cloth with gilt titles, B&W Vittorio Sella plates throughout, some large fold-out, five maps, two large fold-out, An account of the Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, The Duke of Abruzzi, early exploration and climbs in the Ruwenzori, Mountains of the Moon. Scarce, especially in this condition.
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IN FORBIDDEN CHINA, Vicomte D'Ollone, Fisher Unwin, London, 1912, 2nd imp, original decorated cloth VG, 306 page hardback, internal foxing, B&W plates, fold-out map, Account of famous French expedition through China, Mongolia and Tibet... I. From Hanoi to Sze-Chuan II. The Country of the Independent Lolos. III. In the Heart of the "Great Cold Mountains". IV. The last of the Independent Territory. V. Lolos and Miao-tze. VII. Round the Lolo Territory. VIII. The Gate of Tibet. Rock-Sculptures. IX. The Tibetan Borderland. X. Entering Tibet. XI. Crossing the "Land of Grass". XII. Attacked by the Tibetans. Lhabrang. XIII. From Tibet into Mongolia. The Dalai-Lama. Pekin. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

SEA FISHING - Multiple authors including TE Donne, The Lonsdale library series, Seeley Service & Co., London, Slightly foxed, VG ( scarce in this condition) dustjacket with minor tear lower spine - 38 essays on the craft os deep sea fishing including chapter on New Zealand by TE Donne. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

WANDERINGS IN ARABIA, One volume abridgement of the two volume Arabia Deserta - Charles Doughty, 600 page VG hardback VG jacket, Duckworth, London, 1949, fold-out map in rear. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THROUGH JUBALAND TO THE LORIAN SWAMP, I Dracopoli, Seeley Service, London, 1st edition, 1914, 313 page Good hardback with original orange boards, gilt decoration to front board and gilt titles, v slight bowing to boards, B&W plates, two maps, one folding in colour in rear of British East Arica - An adventurous journey of exploration & sport in the unknown African forests & deserts of Jubaland to the unknown Lorian swamp - Uncommon. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

A DREAM OF WHITE HORSES, Ed Drummond, Foreword by Allen Steck, Diadem Books, UK 1st edition 1987, 220 page VG+ hardback VG jacket, well crafted essays and poems of a life spent climbing rock - THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED.

THE CONQUEST OF MOUNT COOK - Freda Du Faur, George Allen & Unwin, London, 2nd Edn, 1936, smaller format, original tan boards - missing publisher's small plate base of spine, overall VG , internally VG+ THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THE BOY FROM AKAROA, signed by author and publisher Wendy Dunlop, privately published in Christchurch in a limited print run, 56 page softbound, beautifully illustrated in colour & B&W plates, lovely colour map of Weddell sea epic...a superbly told account of Akaroa-born Frank Worsley's life and role in the Endurance epic as Shackleton's captain. (Wendy Dunlop wrote the New Zealand Geographic feature on Worsley. She also appears in the feature film/DVD Shackleton's Captain) THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED