Travel And Exploration from Diversity Books, IOBA

Hartwell, VIC, Australia: Temple House, 2005. xx, + 291pp., b/white photographic illustrations intext. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper has minimal edgewear and surface indentations. After nearly thirty years, Joy Beaudette Cripps has written her travel memoirs, including visits to the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia . . . Book weight approx. 385g. (This book will… Read more about this item

Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia: Bern and Jan Cuthbertson, 2001. xi, 321pp. B/white illustrations, fold out general chart of Terra Australis at rear. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Author signature, plus another signature and date to title page, else leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper has a small area of laminate lift to lower foredge corner, else minor edgewear and… Read more about this item

Prahran, Victoria, Australia: Hardie Grant Books, 2005. 352pp. Plentiful colour and b/white photographic illustrations by Matt Harvey. Oblong format. Book clean. Spine firm, very slightly canted. Red pattern illustrated boards very mildly edge bumped only. Leaves clean and unmarked. Colour montage illustrated dustjacket negligibly edgeworn, tiny nick and spot to inner surface of upper flap fold. From the jacket flap:… Read more about this item

Montrose, Victoria, Australia: Algona Publications, 1981. 48pp. B/white illustrations and maps throughout. Book clean. Saddle-stitch, staple-bound format. Staples firm, mild rust. Several tiny faint spots to half-title page, else leaves clean and unmarked. Colour-illustrated card wrapper negligibly edgeworn, mild tanning to rear text panel - "This book is a guide for visitors to the Kooyoora country which is… Read more about this item

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2009. 299pp. Book clean, square. Blue quarter spine firm, silver title there-on. Plain blue boards lightly bumped on lower foredge corner. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated dustjacket negligibly edgeworn only. "In this thrilling foray into the animal kingdom, award-winning nature writer Richard Conniff takes readers along on an adventure-packed journey as he courts… Read more about this item

New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2015. 244pp. B/white city map illustrated endpapers. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated boards have a light bump to upper foredge corner. From the rear panel: "John Banville first visits Prague - that 'mysterious, jumbled, fantastical, absurd city on the Vltava' - in the depths of the Cold War. It is… Read more about this item

London: Robson Books, 1997. 205pp. B/white maps. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper very good+. From the rear panel: "For journalist Stephen O'Shea, the legacy of the Great War is personal and cultural. Stunned by viewing the battlefield of the Somme, and feeling that 'history is too important to be left to the… Read more about this item

Altona, Victoria, Australia : Keima Press 370pp. Colour-art and photographic illustrations. Book clean. Spine firm, very slightly canted, tiny surface chip, light bump to head. Leaves clean. Personal inscriptions, signed by both authors, to inside front cover of colour-illustrated card wrapper, which has corner creases to lower front panel, minor edgewear. From the rear panel: See the 'Bicentennial National… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co., 1991. xv, + 238pp. B/white map plus sketch illustrations. Book clean, square. Spine firm, bright silver title there-on. Plain blue boards undamaged. Leaves mildly edge-tanned, else clean and unmarked. Colour-art illustrated ('The Loing Canal' 1892', detail, Alfred Sisley) dustjacket mildly edge-creased. From the jacket flap: "Bill and Laurel Cooper have lived on boats of various… Read more about this item

Alexandria, New South Wales, Australia: Hale & Iremonger, 2000. 284pp. Unpaginated (14 page) colour, photographically-illustrated section, b/white illustrations intext, maps at rear. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Pictorially-illustrated card wrapper has several surface scratches to rear panel. "Augustus Charles Gregory, Australia's greatest explorer, left a powerful narrative of his 1855-6 expedition to northern Australia - but that… Read more about this item

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Hill of Content Publishing, 1994. 435pp. Unpaginated colour-plates, several b/white halftone plates, two colour, line-drawn maps, plus botanical and fauna, line-drawn, chapter-footer illustrations. Book. Spine firm. Colour-illustrated card wrapper nominally edgeworn, small soft corner crease. Textblock unmarked. Dating somewhat (published 1994), some of the rides featured in this guide-book may not be fully accessible and the… Read more about this item

Kensington, N.S.W., Australia: Bay Books No date (NLA suggests 1986). 287pp. Book clean and square. Illustrated throughout: colour, duotone, and monochrome halftone plates, sketch-illustrations, and line-drawn maps. White title over firm spine. Burgundy red boards nominally shelfworn only. Text-block unmarked. Art-illustrated, French-fold dustjacket minimally indented. "This is a book of extracts from the journals of the major Australian explorers between… Read more about this item

Karrinyup, Western Australia : (Author) Keith Flexmore Adams, 2004. 318pp. Illustrated throughout: colour-plates, b/white halftone plates (mostly family archives), and line-drawn maps. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper minimally edgeworn only. A non-specific inscription ("I hope you enjoy my life's journey") signed by the author on title page, else textblock unmarked. 'Crocodile Safari Man' is the… Read more about this item

Oxford, U.K.: Beaufoy Books, in Association with Edward Stanford Ltd., 2010. x, + 129pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Colour-illustrated card wrapper nominally bumped on upper foredge corner. Textblock unmarked. Originally published in 1920, this title by American novelist Edith Wharton (1862-1937) features her journey to mysterious Morocco in the final days of World War One, at a… Read more about this item

Blackburn, Victoria, Australia: Pindari Publications, 1993. 160pp. Intext, b/white halftone plates, and line-drawn maps throughout. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Colour-illustrated card wrapper lightly splayed, and has an oblique crease on upper foredge corner of rear wrap. Textblock unmarked. Including a disclaimer as to the veracity of post-publication (read 1993) access to walks, contents of this handy guidebook… Read more about this item

New York: Ecco (HarperCollins Publishers) , 2002. xii, + 448pp. Book clean and square. Gilt title over minimally bumped spine. Blind-stamped publisher's logo over plain red boards. Unpaginated, b/white halftone plates section, plus like, intext illustrations and a line-drawn area map. Textblock unmarked. Colour-illustrated dustjacket nominally edgeworn only. In 'The Carpet Wars', award-winning Australian-born journalist Christopher Kremmer chronicles his… Read more about this item

Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: Macmillan, 2018. x, + 396pp. Unpaginated, colour and b/white halftone plate section. Book clean and square. Spine firm, a minor reading crease there-on. Illustrated card wrapper minimally bumped and edgeworn only, colour maps (with legends) on verso. Textblock unmarked. Australian writer Austin Galt arrived in Colombia looking for 'a life less ordinary'. What he found was… Read more about this item

London: Alliance Press Limited, 1944. 78pp. Produced to War Economy Standard. B/white halftone plate illustrations throughout. Book clean and square. Spine firm, slightly bumped and chipped. Illustrated card wrapper mildly bumped only. Textblock unmarked. 'Jimmy' is an allied soldier on leave in London during the latter part of World War Two. 'Breezy and sincere', these pages are his observations… Read more about this item

New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2009. xii, + 292pp. Small, chapter-header sketch-illustrations (Glenn Wolff), plus several maps. Book clean. Vivid silver title over firm, minimally canted spine. Blind-stamped publisher's logo over nominally bumped boards. Textblock unmarked. Illustrated dustjacket lightly bumped and edgeworn only. Bill Streever is a scientist/writer with a passion for the earth's cold regions and in… Read more about this item

United Kingdom: Thames and Hudson, 1970. 256pp. Monochrome, halftone plate illustrated section (all called-for plates extant and attached), plus numerous intext line-drawings and maps throughout. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over lightly bumped spine, ditto publisher's logo over undamaged original cloth boards. A former owner's stamp on front pastedown, tinted top edge, else textblock unmarked. Illustrated dustjacket… Read more about this item