Search Results: Titles starting with T from Barking Mad Books

TENTS IN MONGOLIA (Yabonah) (Adventures and Experiences Among the Nomads of Central Asia) Henning Haslund, Dutton & Co., New York, 1st US edition, 4th imp, 1934, B&W plates, map, Adventures among the nomads of Central Asia - chiefly Mongolia - on Krebs danish expedition - THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THE WILDERNESS OF DENALI - Charles SHELDON, 1960, originally published 1930, Charles Scribner's, New York, VG+ 412 page hardback, VG jacket, slight browning Explorations of a hunter-naturalist in Alaska - a famous book - excellent descriptions of natural history of many species - THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THOSE GREENLAND DAYS, Martin Lindsay, Blackwood & sons, London, 1932, 1st edn., 2nd imp, B&W plates, maps, This copy beautifully/professionally rebound in green leather on spine with red panel and gilt titles, green cloth on boards. My Bookplate from Colin Monteath polar library fep. - A collector's item A famous British Greenland expedition winters in Angmagssalik on east coast, dog sledging on sea ice and across the icecap to West Coast by two routes, small aircraft used for support, use Shackleton's ship Quest. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THROUGH ASIA, Sven Hedin, Methuen, London, 1898, 2 vols, original red cloth, bindings solid but spines frayed/ need repair, perfect candidates for rebinding, 100s illustrations throughout ,Two fold-out colour maps of The Pamirs, Tarim basin, Takalmakan and northern Tibet - tough journey through Central Asia - Priced accordingly.
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THROUGH TIBET TO EVEREST - Captain John Noel, Edward Arnold, London, 1st UK Edn, 2nd imp December 1927 (same format and binding as true 1st Edn), VG+, no jacket, original blue cloth with gilt titles, bright & fine, Noel, a major player (and official photographer) in the early British expeditions to Chomolungma's North ridge summarises the 1921, 22 and 24 expeditions. Scarce in this condition. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THROUGH DESERTS AND OASES OF CENTRAL ASIA - Ella Sykes & Sir Percy Sykes, MacMillan, London, 1920, 1st edn., Original grey boards and little tired and bumped though red plate on front cover VG, spine title faded, previous owner's name fep, B&W plates throughout, fold-out map of authors routes through Central Asia in facsimile in pocket at rear - scarce Priced accordingly 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

TIBET, Pietro Mele (text & B&W plates), Intro by Giotto Dainelli, Allen & Unwin, London, 1957, 100 page hardback with VG jacket. Mele travelled with Tucci to Lhasa in 1948. Excellent photographs of an older Tibet and its people between Tsangpo, Bhutan and Sikkim. Very uncommon, especially in this condition THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

TIBET & NEPAL - Henry Savage Landor - A&C Black, London, 1st edn., 1905, original highly decorated boards, with gilt titles and designs - richly illustrated volume with dozens of Landor's superb highly colourful paintings (each with tissue guards) depicting his journeys in Tibet and Nepal - a really lovely piece of work, very slightly worn spine ends and corners THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

TIBET'S GREAT YOGI MILAREPA - W Evan's Wentz, Oxford University Press, London, 2nd edn., 1951, original green cloth with gilt titles and decorations, 315 page hardback, booksellers stamp on fep, VG with foxing to endpapers, overall v clean internally, colour and B&W plates - scholarly work on life of Milarepa - a classic history of Tibetan culture. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

TO THE SOUTH POLAR REGIONS, Louis Bernacchi, Hurst & Blackett, London, 1901, 1st edn., ex-lib with stamps, both large fold-out maps plus one plate in facsimile, professionally rebound in maroon cloth and black stippled spine cloth, with gilt titles. Belgian-Australian scientist Bernacchi's very scarce account of his winter at Cape Adare in 1899, the first winter on the continent THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

TOUR OF MONT BLANC & Monte Rosa - James FORBES, 1855, Adam and Charles Black, London, A poor copy in shaky binding,,,reading copy only, text complete...but map missing. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

TRANS-HIMALAYA - Discoveries and adventures in Tibet, Sven Hedin, 3 vols, Vols 1 & 2 published 1909, this imp 1910 and the rarer Vol3, published 1913. Original red cloth, gilt titles, some sun fading and minor insect damage to boards, VG+ inside including B&W and colour plates...and superb large fold-out maps of Hedin's remarkable journeys across southern Tibet, Kailas, etc...including the range he named the Trans-Himalaya. The Swedish explorer devoted his third journey, 1906-8, to the region lying between Shigatse and Leh and to the north of the Brahmaputra. He produced maps of the area, which had not been previously visited and revealed the existence of a large range of mountains lying parallel to the Himalaya on the Tibetan side. Hedin visited the sources of the major Asian rivers that rise near Mt Kailas and Lake Manasarowar. He never did reach Lhasa. Overall, despite minor binding damage,a fine set, very hard to find in the 3 vols.
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TRAVELS IN CHINA - A PLANTSMAN'S PARADISE, Roy Lancaster, Antique Collector's Club, Suffolk, 1993 with new addendum (first published 1989) - B&W and colour plates + maps throughout this weighty tome 500+ page VG+ hardback, VG+ jacket. A combination of the author's own plant collecting in SW China but descriptions of the journeys of pioneers such as Joseph Rock.
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TWO GENERATIONS, Peter & Ed Hillary, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1984 1st edn., 223 page VG+ hardback, VG jacket, colour plates - autobiography of father & son. Signed by Ed Hillary to fep. A nice clean bright copy. "written with good humour and total honesty by a father and son who do not always look eye to eye, but share a zest for adventure which they communicate unstintingly" THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED