Search Results: Titles starting with P from Barking Mad Books

PEAKS, PASSES AND GLACIERS - by members of The Alpine Club, Third series, Edited by Field & Spencer, Methuen, London, 1932, original brown cloth, bright gilt titles and decoration, about as fine a copy as you'll find, minor foxing, 300 page hardback, B&W plates - climbs in The European Alps - not common THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

PHEASANTS - including their care in the Aviary - H Gerrits, Blandford Press, London, 1961 VG hardback, soiled but complete jacket, lovely colour plates. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

PIERCING THE CLOUDS - Tom Fyfe: First to climb Mt Cook - John Haynes, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1994, 200 page softbound, B&W plates, map, no inscriptions, Super biography of one of Nw Zealand's most influencial pioneer climbers. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

A PILGRIMAGE OF PASSION, The life of Wilfrid Blunt, Elizabeth Longford, Weidenfeld & Nicholson , London, 1979, 1st edn., 466 page VG+ hardback, VG jacket, B&W plates, Desert explorer - a great English eccentric. Lawrence and Philby always called in on Blunt before setting out for the desert - a most thorough biography, rich with passion and politics across the face of the middle East. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

PLANT HUNTING ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD - Frank Kingdon Ward, The Minerva Press, 1974 (originally published 1930), 224 page VG+ hardback in VG jacket, sepia tinted plates, maps, A classic account, of the distinguished botanist's travels on the North-East Indian Frontier, comprising two expeditions one of which was to Burma in 1926 and the other to the mountains of Assam. Hard to find in any edition. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

PLANT HUNTER IN MANIPUR - Frank Kingdon Ward, Jonathan Cape, London, 1st edn., 1952, VG+ 254 page hardback in original scarce jacket, minor foxing , B&W plates, fold-out map, previous owner's bookplate on fep - Plant hunting at its best from the master explorer-botanist - scarce especially in this condition. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

POLAR CASTAWAYS - signed by both authors - The Ross Sea party 1914-17 of Sir Ernest Shackleton. Richard McElrea & David Harrowfield, 1st edition, 2004, Canterbury University Press, Christchurch This copy signed to title page by David Harrowfield & Richard McElrea, - 315 page hardback VG+ with VG jacket, B&W plates, maps, By far the best account of Shackleton's Ross Sea party, in part because it tells of the often overlooked saga of the Aurora adrift rudderless in the Ross Sea - utterly harrowing . THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

PORTRAIT OF THE DALAI LAMA - Charles Bell, Collins, London, 1st edn., 1946, original orange cloth with gilt titles and embossed design on front board, chipped but near complete jacket, - a richly illustrated and well written biography of the 13th Dalai Lama who Charles Bell knew well during his 20 year tenure in Lhasa. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

A POSTAL HISTORY OF ROSS DEPENDENCY 1955-77, Mark Jurisich, Classic Publications, Christchurch, 2002, 185 large format softbound, profusely illustrated in B&W with stamp covers - quite a remarkable piece of research that is so much more of an historical document on Scott Base than just its Post Office and Ross Dep stamps - terrific and very hard to find. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED