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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Light blue cloth under pictorial jacket . Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 320 pages. Item Type: Book. Clean and bright pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. No inscriptions. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Exploration; . ISBN: 0600570606. ISBN/EAN: 9780600570608. Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 029416. …

Hardcover (Printed Boards). Condition: Very Good. The most up-to-date and authoritative work on the subject world exploration. This book contains specially commissioned maps showing all the principal exploration routes, many traced from first-hand accounts. Chronologies listing key dates in the opening of each continent and the text is accompanied by unique collection of photographs, paintings and engravings. 320 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Exploration; Exploration; ISBN: 0600568199. ISBN/EAN: 9780600568193. Inventory No: 259635. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.…

Hardback. Each section consists of a narrative history of the exploration of a particular region accompanied by a map and bw and colour illustrations pp 320. book.

Condition: Very Good. 4to. hardcover. 320pp. indexcolur & b/w illus. Very good, page edges slightly browned. / Very good d/w.

Condition: Gut. 320 P. Pages permanent minimal bronzy; in other respects in good condition. Permanent with colour illustrated pictures sometimes in double page size. The Royal Geographical Society. Adapted from contents: The history of the exploration of our world is a heroric adventure, a centuries-old quest to extend the limit of our physical horizons and to test our courage and fortitude. The stories of these explorers and their expeditions have, from ancient times, inspired and embodied the ascent of man. From Maro Polo, Columbus and Cook, Livingstone, Burton and Speke, to those intrepid polar explorers Scott and Amundsen, to Edmund Hillary who scaled the peak of Everest - all are a breed apart and all have their own remarkable stories to tell. Englisch B10-02-03D|Lager 5|8468CB Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 444 29 x 22 cm. Original Printed boardCover and back cover minimal blotchy and shop-soiled. With illustrated dust-jacket. Inside the front cover illustrated.…