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Following the Equator by Mark Twain
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics Ser.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910) better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1875) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) the latter of ...Show more
In Morocco by Edith Wharton
11.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Hailing from both sides of the Atlantic, the authors included are as diverse as Edith Wharton, Henry James, Ernest Shackleton and Alfred Russel Wallace. Every title has been reset in a contemporary typeface, and has been printed to a high-quality production specification, to create a series that every l ...Show more
In Morocco by Edith Wharton
20.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Edith Wharton journeyed to Morocco in the final days of the First World War, at a time when there was no guidebook to the country. In Morocco is the classic account of her expedition. A seemingly unlikely chronicler, Wharton, more usually associated with American high society, explored the country for a ...Show more
Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics Ser.
The Malay Archipelago By Alfred Russel Wallace 'I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head' The great Victorian scientist's heroic adventures across South-East Asia, from Singapore to the wilds of New Guinea, encountering head-hunters, jungles, birds of pa ...Show more
Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
20.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Joshsua Slocum spent a lifetime at sea. He ran away from his Nova Scotia home at the age of 14 and for the next 35 years he sailed the world holding every shipboard rank. When a ship under his command was wrecked on the coast of Brazil in 1887, it seemed that his maritime career had ended in disgrace. N ...Show more
South Sir Ernest Shackleton by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
25.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Ernest Shackleton sailed to the South Pole as the First World War broke out in Europe, intent on making the first ever trans-Antarctic crossing. South! is Shackleton's first-hand account of the epic expedition, which he described as 'the last great journey on earth'. During the journey their ship, the E ...Show more
The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
10.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Hailing from both sides of the Atlantic, the authors included are as diverse as Edith Wharton, Henry James, Ernest Shackleton and Alfred Russel Wallace. Every title has been reset in a contemporary typeface, and has been printed to a high-quality production specification, to create a series that every l ...Show more
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