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A Grand Tour of Asia 1910by: Hania Tallmadge and Beverley Jackson

A Grand Tour of Asia 1910
by: Hania Tallmadge and Beverley Jackson

Hardcover. San Francisco, Ten Speed Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 128 pages. A GRAND TOUR OF ASIA recreates a time and a place that no longer exists except in the lyrical images so lovingly preserved by the lens of a wandering American, and so wryly captured in the prose of his mysterious companions nearly a century ago. Christian Rub, a character actor in Hollywood films, presented the intriguing album to its current owner, Hania Tallmadge, in 1949, when she was a child.A historically unique collection of photographs taken in the spring of 1910 on a four-month tour of the Far East, presented in an exquisite facsimile edition of the album in which they were originally discovered.Includes more than 150 images reproduced in their actual size, their hand-tinted colors authentic and un-retouched. Even the handwritten script has been carefully replicated.

Record # 372061

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Abenteuer in Tibet (GERMAN TEXT)by: Hedin, Sven v.

Abenteuer in Tibet (GERMAN TEXT)
by: Hedin, Sven v.

Hardcover. Leipzig, F.H. Brockhaus, 1st?, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 414 pages. German text. Many black & white photos and color plate illustrations. Fold-out map at rear of book. Stapled binding. Big color illustration front cover with engraved dark blue & gold decoration and gold embossed lettering. Spine gold lettering, has markings. Minor scratches to back cover. Endpapers green illustration. Previous owner's signature preliminary page. Corners a bit bumped.

Record # 500183

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At Home in China and Around the World: The life story of Merlin and Eunice Bishop (SIGNED COPY)by: Bishop, Eunice Smith

At Home in China and Around the World: The life story of Merlin and Eunice Bishop (SIGNED COPY)
by: Bishop, Eunice Smith

Softcover. self-published, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 267 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. The autobiography of an American missionary recalling her travel and adventures in China and later Africa. Clean copy with mild warp to book.

Record # 379335

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Bangkok: Biography of a Cityby: Alec Waugh

Bangkok: Biography of a City
by: Alec Waugh

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 282 pages, b&w illustrations. A graceful, witty and dramatic biography of one of the most fabulous cities in the world. Clean copy.

Record # 381194

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Captured in Time: Journeys With My Cameraby: Ramsay, Christine Wu

Captured in Time: Journeys With My Camera
by: Ramsay, Christine Wu

Hardcover. Melbourne AUS, Macmillan Art Publishing, 1st, 2009, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 256 pages. This book, offering more than three hundred beautiful photographic studies, spans the years 1986-2006. Each image captures a special moment at a certain place in Australasia, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Each image is unique and can never be re-captured. Christine Wu Ramsay's excursion into photography began when she established Raya Gallery in Melbourne one of the first to exhibit the works of modern artists from the Asian region. With an eye for detail and atmosphere, she brings a unique sensibility to her captured moments, producing photographs that stir memories in anyone who has travelled the world.

Record # 350546

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Connaissance du Viet-Namby: Pierre Huard / Maurice Durand

Connaissance du Viet-Nam
by: Pierre Huard / Maurice Durand

Softcover. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale , 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stiff paper covers with light edgewear, tanning, 356 pages, TEXT IN FRENCH. Illustrated throughout, folding map.

Record # 387750

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From the Himalayas to the Equator: Letters Sketches and Addresses Giving Some Account of a Tour in India and Malaysia by: Cyrus D. Foss

From the Himalayas to the Equator: Letters Sketches and Addresses Giving Some Account of a Tour in India and Malaysia
by: Cyrus D. Foss

Hardcover. NY, Eaton and Means, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 262 pages. An Account of the visitation of Bishop Foss and Dr. Goucher to the Indian and Malaysian Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. This book gives the reader new information as to the needs of the different fields which are under discussion, grasps more vividly the magnitude of the modern missionary movement, and gathers fresh confidence in the final triumph of the Messiah throughout the heathen world. B&w illustrations. Old ink price on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 379826

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Himalayan Tea Garden: a Young Family's Adventures on a Tea Plantation Near Darjeeling by: Fletcher, David Wilson

Himalayan Tea Garden: a Young Family's Adventures on a Tea Plantation Near Darjeeling
by: Fletcher, David Wilson

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell , 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 273 pages. B&w photographs. Previous owner's label on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Record # 372403

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Isabella Bird: A Photographic Journal of Travels Through China 1894-1896by: Ireland, Debbie

Isabella Bird: A Photographic Journal of Travels Through China 1894-1896
by: Ireland, Debbie

Hardcover. East Sussex, UK, Ammonite Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Over 180 black & white photographs. Isabella Bird was one of the 19th century's most remarkable women explorers. Her global travels and subsequent books made her famous, and led to her becoming one of the first female members of the Royal Geographical Society in 1891. This book celebrates her achievements of Isabella Bird with a beautiful pictorial record of her last great journey through China in the closing years of the 19th century, with supporting text by travel photography expert Debbie Ireland. The highlight of her visit was journeying by boat and sedan chair to make a major tour of the valley of the Yangtze River and much beyond, right up to the border with Tibet.

Record # 353283

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Journal of Spilbergen: The First Dutch Envoy to Ceylon 1602by: SPILBERGEN, Joris Van

Journal of Spilbergen: The First Dutch Envoy to Ceylon 1602
by: SPILBERGEN, Joris Van

Softcover. Dehiwala, Sri Lanka, Sridevi Printers, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 70 pages plus 10 b&w plates. Extracts from the journal of Spilberger (1568-1620), one of the first outsiders to set foot in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1602. Translated fom the Dutch by K.D. Paranavitana. Clean copy.

Record # 382028

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Max Pam - Atlas Monographsby: Muecke, Essay Stephen

Max Pam - Atlas Monographs
by: Muecke, Essay Stephen

Hardcover. Sydney AU, T&G PUBLISHING, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 296 pages. This is Pam's 'visual anthropology' of his engagement with various Asian cultures, where he was photographing his life and experiences.

Record # 350210

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Max Pam - Atlas Monographsby: Muecke, Essay Stephen

Max Pam - Atlas Monographs
by: Muecke, Essay Stephen

Hardcover. Sydney AU, T&G PUBLISHING, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 296 pages. This is Pam's 'visual anthropology' of his engagement with various Asian cultures, where he was photographing his life and experiences.

Record # 350209

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My China - A Feast for All the Sensesby: Kwong, Kylie

My China - A Feast for All the Senses
by: Kwong, Kylie

Hardcover. New York, Viking Studio, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 483 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 614446

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On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads by: Tim Cope

On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
by: Tim Cope

Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury USA, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 509 pages. The relationship between man and horse on the Eurasian steppe gave rise to a succession of rich nomadic cultures. Among them were the Mongols of the thirteenth century - a small tribe, which, under the charismatic leadership of Genghis Khan, created the largest contiguous land empire in history. Inspired by the extraordinary life nomads lead, Tim Cope embarked on a journey that hadn't been successfully completed since those times: to travel on horseback across the entire length of the Eurasian steppe, from Karakorum, the ancient capital of Mongolia, through Kazakhstan, Russia, Crimea and the Ukraine to the Danube River in Hungary. From horse-riding novice to spending months in the saddle, he learnt to fend off wolves and would-be horse-thieves, and grapple with the haunting extremes of the steppe as he crossed sub-zero plateaux, the scorching deserts of Kazakhstan and the high-mountain passes of the Carpathians. As he travelled he formed a close bond with his horses and especially his dog Tigon, and encountered essential hospitality - the linchpin of human survival on the steppe - from those he met along the way. Cope bears witness to how the traditional ways hang in the balance in the post-Soviet world - an era that has brought new-found freedom, but also the perils of corruption and alcoholism, and left a world bereft of both the Communist system upon which it once relied, and the traditional knowledge of the nomadic forefathers.

Record # 378628

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Peking Dustby: La Motte, Ellen N.

Peking Dust
by: La Motte, Ellen N.

Hardcover. NY, Century Co., 1st, 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped with black design, 240 pages illustrated with b&w photos. A book that covers many aspects of life in China through the eyes of an extraordinary woman: "Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873 - 1961) was an American nurse, journalist and author. After WW1, LaMotte travelled to Asia, where she witnessed the horrors of opium addiction. These travels provided her with material for six books, three of them explicitly dealing with the opium problem, this being the first. Covers show shelf wear, soil.

Record # 373216

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Person from England, A : and other travellers to Turkestanby: MacLean, Fitzroy

Person from England, A : and other travellers to Turkestan
by: MacLean, Fitzroy

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 384 pages, b&w illustrations including map. Clean, tight copy in a worn dust jacket. The story of Russian and British agents and the so-called Great Game between the two nations in Turkestan. "Maclean tells the dramatic stories of some of these agents and of some other travellers, official and unofficial, military and civilian, who in the course of a hundred years, on one errand or another, penetrated the Khanates of Central Asia".

Record # 415143

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Reefs of Taprobane, The: Underwater Adventures Around Ceylonby: Clarke, Arthur C.

Reefs of Taprobane, The: Underwater Adventures Around Ceylon
by: Clarke, Arthur C.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 205 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Some tanning from age to edges, otherwise pages clean. Cover boards bound in blue, marbled cloth, red quarter cloth (some fading at spine, fraying at top and bottom). Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape for its age. Clarke explores a reef and the people of southern Sri Lanka. No dust jacket.

Record # 372802

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Riddles of the Gobi Desert by: Hedin, Sven

Riddles of the Gobi Desert
by: Hedin, Sven

Hardcover. London, George Routledge & Sons, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 382 pages, 24 b&w plates, fold-out map in rear, short tear at crease. Clean copy.

Record # 385870

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Sketches of the Silk Road: Rugged Roads of Tjanshan-Nanlu, China's Western Frontier by: Naoki Mukoda

Sketches of the Silk Road: Rugged Roads of Tjanshan-Nanlu, China's Western Frontier
by: Naoki Mukoda

Softcover. Tokyo, Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 111 pages. Japanese photographer on the road from Xi'an to Kashi and back again. Color throughout.

Record # 362703

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The Frozen River: Seeking Silence in the Himalayaby: Crowden, James

The Frozen River: Seeking Silence in the Himalaya
by: Crowden, James

Hardcover. London, William Collins, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 342 pages, color photos. In 1976 James Crowden left his career in the British army and travelled to Ladakh in the Northern Himalaya, one of the most remote parts of the world. The Frozen River is his extraordinary account of the time he spent there, living alongside the Zangskari people, before the arrival of roads and mass tourism. James immerses himself in the Zangskari way of life, where meditation and week-long mountain festivals go hand in hand, and silence and solitude are the hallmarks of existence. When butter traders invite James on their journey down the frozen river Leh, he soon realises that this way of living, unchanged for centuries, comes with a very human cost. In lyrical prose, James captures a crucial moment in time for this Himalayan community. A moment in which their Buddhist practices and traditions are in flux, and the economic pull of a world beyond their valley is increasingly difficult to ignore.

Record # 378519

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The Vanishing Jungle: The Story of the World Wildlife Fund Expeditions to Pakistanby: Guy Mountfort

The Vanishing Jungle: The Story of the World Wildlife Fund Expeditions to Pakistan
by: Guy Mountfort

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 286 pages, endpaper maps, 60 b&w and color illustrations by Eric Hosking. Dust jacket has edgewear and chipping. Book is very good, tight, clean.

Record # 393593

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To The Back Of Beyond: An Illustrated Companion To Central Asia And Mongolia by: Maclean, Fitzroy

To The Back Of Beyond: An Illustrated Companion To Central Asia And Mongolia
by: Maclean, Fitzroy

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown And Company, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Travels in Samarkand and Bokhara, the forbidden cities of Turkestan; Central Asia, from the Caspian to the Chinese border. Illustrated with over 100 of the author's own photographs. 144 pages. Illustrated with a two-page map, 16 color photographs, and numerous black and white photographs.Clean copy.

Record # 379953

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Turkistan: Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan Koland Bukhara and Kuldja by: Schuyler, Eugene (Geoffrey Wheeler editor/intro)

Turkistan: Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan Koland Bukhara and Kuldja
by: Schuyler, Eugene (Geoffrey Wheeler editor/intro)

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Praeger , 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 303 pages, b&w illustrations, maps. Eight years after the Russian capture of Tashkent in 1865, Schuyler, then American consul in St. Petersburg, set out to tour Russia's newly acquired dominions. Traveling entirely by road under primitive conditions, he managed in the space of 18 months to traverse the Steppe Region and record his observations of the Muslim people. Name, date on front fly leaf, no other markings.

Record # 385879

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Tuva or Bust: Richard Feynman's Last Journey by: Leighton, Ralph

Tuva or Bust: Richard Feynman's Last Journey
by: Leighton, Ralph

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 1991, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 254 pages. Red phono disc of Tuvan throat singing still attached. As a stamp-collecting boy always fascinated by remote places, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman was particularly taken by the diamond-shaped stamps from a place called Tannu Tuva deep within Outer Mongolia. He hoped, someday, to travel there. In 1977, Feynman and his sidekick - fellow drummer and geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton - set out to make arrangements to visit Tuva, doing noble and hilarious battle with Soviet red tape, befriending quite a few Tuvans, and discovering the wonders of Tuvan throat-singing. Their Byzantine attempts to reach Tannu Tuva would span a decade, interrupted by Feynman's appointment to the committee investigating the Challenger disaster, and his tragic struggle with the cancer that finally killed him. Tuva or Bust! chronicles the deepening friendship of two zany, brilliant strategists whose love of the absurd will delight and instruct. Clean copy.

Record # 396452

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Unknown Himalayasby: Joshi, Himanshu

Unknown Himalayas
by: Joshi, Himanshu

Hardcover. New Delhi, India, Lustre Press, Roli Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Stunningly photographed, this album offers a rarely seen view of the snow-clad peaks, mysterious lakes, massive glaciers, and fascinating people of the Himalayas.

Record # 353106

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Vietnam: Spirits of the Earthby: Mary Cross and Frances Fitzgerald

Vietnam: Spirits of the Earth
by: Mary Cross and Frances Fitzgerald

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 204 pages. Combines photography with the writings of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author to create a portrait of contemporary Vietnam healed from the war and replete with lush landscapes, customs, villages, traditions, and cities.

Record # 362433

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