Travel - Africa from Goldring Books

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1996. A near Fine unmarked copy with no inscriptions (Fine apart from some light foxing to top and fore edges) with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 472 pages. 23 illustrations. 3 maps. Ostensibly a quest for Mokele-mbembe, the Congo dinosaur (whose secret becomes clear), this story of travel through the jungles and swamp forests… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Harper Collins, 2005. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xiv + 298 pages. 45 illustrations. 1 map. Glossary. Second impression. When Philip Marsden first went to Ethiopia in 1982, it changed the direction of his life. What he saw of its astonishing antiquity, its raw medieval Christianity, its extremes of brutality and… Ler mais sobre este item

Oxford: The Oxford Illustrated Press, 1990. Pictorial laminated boards has a small indentation to front and a few page corners have light creasing else clean, tight and unmarked with dustjacket which has a stain to back and is not price clipped. Twenty days after setting out from the Saharan sand dunes of the Erg Chebbi desert in the far south-eastern… Ler mais sobre este item

London: The Bodley Head, 1987. A VG+ unmarked copy which has usual age darkening to page edges with VG+ complete dustjacket. A fascinating journey by the author and her travelling companion, travelling in a dilapidated riverboat up the mainstream of the Congo, and into the geographic centre of the African continent. Once there they strike out over land through… Ler mais sobre este item

London: B. T. Batsford, 1976. A Very Good + unmarked copy with VG + price clipped dustjacket. An excellent travelogue which is not only informative and useful but is also entertainingly personal, bringing South Africa to life with a wealth of vivid personal experience, anecdote and historical background which the South African author peppers with an assortment of extraordinary characters.… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Collins, 1945. Brown title on light brown cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with a little fading to spine. Internally there is an inscription to front pastedown and some light foxing to endpapers else clean and unmarked. 271 pages. Portrait frontispiece. 5 maps showing Livingstone's journeys. A well researched account of David Livingstone's journeys in Africa from 1866… Ler mais sobre este item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1977. A Fine copy in a complete dustjacket which has slight fading to spine. The heroic journey by the authors with their two children across 8,000 miles from Cape Town to Egypt using only public transport and any other means of conveyance. They encounter dramatic events, sickness, arrest, wild animals but experienced awe inspiring sights. A… Ler mais sobre este item