Travel-Exploration-Adventure from Gargoyle Books

Manning, Oregon: Life Support Technology, Inc., 1974. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine. Ingeniously designed packet of 5 small survival guides packed in a protective, accordion-fold plastic sleeve designed to take with you in a pocket or pack on the trail! Apparently, these were once standard issue as part of Bombardier Emergency Kits. Incredibly… Ler mais sobre este item

New York, New York: Viking Press, 1937. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/VG-. Sanderson, Ivan T.. Very first book by this long British zoologist & adventurer, based on his travels to the remote forests of Mamfe in West Africa, where he encountered many species unknown to most of the planet. In 326 pages, with 32… Ler mais sobre este item

1939. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Good. Description of an expedition carried out 1938/39 for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, tasked with collecting specimens for the Leopard & Colobus Monkey groups for the new Akeley Hall of African Mammals at the museum, which had just completed construction a few years earlier… Ler mais sobre este item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. VG/No Jacket. The famed explorer & retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral describes the first exploration base--Little America--that he established with his team at the South Pole in 1930. This hardcover is a FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from Autumn 1930. Hardcover has bright… Ler mais sobre este item

New York/Bufalo/Toronto: W.G. MacFarlane, 1907. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. Before acquiring its current nickname, the "Emerald City,'' as a result of a contest in 1982, the city of Seattle had several other sobriquets. In 1869, promotional material aimed at attracting new residents & visitors dubbed it, "The Future Queen City of the Pacific… Ler mais sobre este item

New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1982. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. Gaber, Susan. The first cookbook for backpackers (& canoeists & campers) that makes possible superb meals on the trail" for families & their hiking dogs alike! Lots of basic information on how to prepare, what to pack, & menu… Ler mais sobre este item

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972. Soft cover. Very Good. American doctors/professors of medicine report on the actual & mythical aspects of the American drug scene in the early 1970s as it had been transferred to "London's drug clinics & Amsterdam's streets." In 205 pages with References, contains many first-person accounts of drug use & addiction. Orig.… Ler mais sobre este item

Canadian Pacific Steamship Co., 1933. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. Promotional book for the RMS Empress of Britain, a steam turbine ocean liner built in Scotland & owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway, the largest ship in the fleet operated by the Canadian Pacific Steamship Co. Beginning in 1931, she offered not only standard passenger… Ler mais sobre este item

New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Orig. published in 1933 under the author's pseudonym Antonio de Fierro Blanco, a "man of mystery" who claimed that his book was an autobiographical account of "One Year in the Life of Senor Don Juan Obrigon, Known During Past Years in the… Ler mais sobre este item

1971. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Collins, Paul. An attempt to present "a personal, intimate portrait of Africa as it really exists today both in the city & in the bush,'' with the "special sympathies" of black photographer Collins, who journeyed with his infant son & writer Lee to trace this ancestors over… Ler mais sobre este item

New York, New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1955. First Edition Later Printing 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Myers, Bernice; Myers, Lou. Another in this popular mid-twentieth-century children's series, each written & illustrated by different authors/artists. This one introduces the land & peoples of Mexico, in 63 pages with Index, with colorfully decorated endpapers & internal illustrations… Ler mais sobre este item

New York, New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1956. First Edition Later Printing 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Anderson, Rus. Another in this popular mid-twentieth-century children's series, each written & illustrated by different authors/artists. This one is by a Captain in the US Navy who was part of that organization's 1946/47 expedition to the Antarctic. A FIRST EDITION, Third… Ler mais sobre este item

New York, New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1956. First Edition, 2nd Printing 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good+. Bruce, Robert. Another in this popular mid-twentieth-century children's series, each written & illustrated by different authors/artists. This one is one that spoke to the heart of famed African American poet, Langston Hughes, who had become acquainted with the West Indies himself… Ler mais sobre este item

New York, New York: C & R Anthony, Inc., 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine. Recounts "a pioneering adventure in long- distance telepathy'' that occurred in 1967 when a group of Russian aviators crashed on the Alaskan side of the North Pole & their government contracted with the first author--a famed Arctic explorer, to rescue them. He arranged to send… Ler mais sobre este item

London, England: Harper & Row, 1962. Book Club Edition (BCE) . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. In this companion volume to "The White Nile,' Moorehead traces the course of the Nile & its exploration from the 18th century through 1869, focusing on the roles of four men: James Bruce from Scotland, Napoleon from France, Muhammad Ali from Turkey, &… Ler mais sobre este item

Princeton, New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1959. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. In-depth survival guide written by three seasoned adventurers with decades of experience leading scientific or archeological expeditions or military operations. Basic human survival needs & capabilities are covered, with general information complemented by instructions for making it out alive from… Ler mais sobre este item

New York, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1959. First English Language Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Good+. Chronicles the 16-month expedition that set out from Paris in 1956 to explore the prehistoric paintings of the Tassili-n-Ajjer in the central Sahara. Orig. published in French in 1958 as "A la Decouverte des Fresques du Tassil,'' this is… Ler mais sobre este item

Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1956. First English Language Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Documents an expedition undertaken by the author for the Geographical Society of Bremen (Germany), 1880/81. Long out of print (orig. published in German in 1885), it is here translated into English for the first time so that anthropologists, ethnologists, & students… Ler mais sobre este item

New York, New York: Willliam Morrow & Company, 1960. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good+. Another in the acclaimed mystery writer's books of adventure travel that detailed several trips he & a team took through hidden regions of Baja California, Mexico, in the late 1950s-early 1960s. He described whale-watching expeditions & beachcombing in & around… Ler mais sobre este item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Macmillan Company, 1969. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Sasek, M.. Another volume in the beloved Czech illustrator's series of geography/history books for children. In 60 pages. Large hardcover folio is an EX-LIB copy in the reinforced library binding, with the usual stamps & markings & card pocket in front… Ler mais sobre este item