The Land of Look Behind. A Study of Jamaica
London: Faber and Faber, 1957. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.
TRAVEL GUIDES / TRAVELOGUES
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Travel writing involves both the record of the physical journey, the joys and hardships, as well as a description of the physical l and features and the cultural differences which are experienced.
The category of travel literature encompasses numerous sub-genres: outdoor literature, exploration literature, travel memoirs, travelogues, adventure literature, mountain literature, nature writing, guide books and various geography subjects.
Guide books expand to include outdoor activities such as survival, sailing, hiking, mountaineering, whitewater boating, kayaking, rock climbing or writing about nature and the environment.
Fresh Gleanings or A New Sheaf From The Old Fields Of Continental Europe
New York: Charles Scribner, 1856. Cloth Hardcover. Popular and sentimental the author's first book. A record of the author's travels to Europe. Throughout his life he showed a particular interest in agriculture and landscape gardening, which he followed at first in pursuit of health. These features are prominent in this.....
Florida, The March of Progress (Compliments of Florida Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Immigration)
Tallahassee, Florida: Florida Dept. of Agriculture, 1931. Soft cover.
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Seashore Creatures: North America
New York: Knopf, 1981. A Fine Soft Cover in Vinyl Binding. The most comprehensive field guide available to the wonders of the North American seashore. Covers nearly 700 species in full detail and makes identification quick and easy with arrangement by shape and by color.
Miami by the Sea. The Land of Palms and Sunshine. Winter Tourist Season 1924
St. Augustine, FL: The Record Company, 1924. Color Illustrated Stapled Wraps. A finely produced brochure to appeal both to the northern tourist and to entice new residents. Each page has a unique full color header with tinted photographs with detailed descriptive text. The endpages are maps. In the center there is.....
Michelin Travel Publications New York City with I Love NY Wrapper and Laid-in Subway Map
USA: Michelin Travel Publications, 1987. Soft cover.
![Item #16853 A Guide to London [1955 with Folded Color Map]. Midland Bank](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16853.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1683745979)
A Guide to London [1955 with Folded Color Map]
England: [Midland Bank], 1955. Stapled stiff wraps. A handsome and well-presented guide with explanations with illustrations of English coins with conversion rates; lists of Hotels, Places of Interest, Theatre, all numbered to locate on the supplied folding map. Also an excellent map and chart for the underground system.
![Item #17258 Land of Wonder and Fear [British Honduras - Central America]. F. A. Mitchell-Hedges,...](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17258.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694972754)
Land of Wonder and Fear [British Honduras - Central America]
New York: The Century Company, 1931. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth Hardcover. Land of Wonder and Fear is a captivating adventure tale set primarily in British Honduras, which is present-day Belize. The narrative follows Mitchell Hedges and Lady Brown as they embark on a journey through Spanish Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua.....
![Item #16675 Delightful Dalmatia [Pre-World War I - Adriatic Sea - Today's Croatia]. Alice Lee Moque](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16675.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1679329372)
Delightful Dalmatia [Pre-World War I - Adriatic Sea - Today's Croatia]
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co, 1914. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth hardcover with color paste-on. “In this little story of a summer voyage down the Adriatic, I have endeavored to incorporate with my own impressions of the land and its people many of the quaint tales and mythical happenings.....
In Search of Scotland
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1952. Hardcover with Dust jacket. An account of a journey through Scotland by motor-car in 1928, some of the chapters were first published in the Daily Express when it opened its office in Glasgow in 1928. A popular title and author by the indication of.....
John Muir's Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa - Unpublished Journals and Selected Correspondence (Pioneers of Conservation)
Washington, D. C. Island Press, 2001. Hardcover. Though best known for his conservation efforts in California and his creation of the Sierra Club, Muir considered his final journey the most rewarding, writing while in Africa in 1912 that "on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful.....
Drive US 66 : shortest, fastest year-'round best across the scenic West : Los Angeles to Chicago. [Route 66]
Stapled wraps. The route with mile markers over illustration with sepia photographs.
Rocky Mountain Views On the Rio Grande, The Scenic Line of the World. Consisting of Twenty-three Colored Views from Recent Photographs.
Denver, Colorado: The Smith-Brooks Printing Company, c1926. Soft cover.
Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the Golden Ring (Third Edition) (Odyssey Illustrated Guides)
Russia: Airphoto International Ltd., 2007. 3rd Edition. Soft cover. Explore the symbolic heart and soul of Russia, Moscow, one of the world's great cities, and her sister city, St. Petersburg, the host of Russia's golden age and cradle of revolution through this authoritative text, which captures the mood and magic.....
North Carolina Historyland. Revised edition c1970
Raleigh, N.C. North Carolina. Travel and Promotion Division, 1970. Soft cover. This promotional booklet, first published in 1964 and several times thereafter, give an overview of the state. .
Caribbean Cruises - Winter-Spring 1966. With the Sun in Your Heart, Aboard These Two Great Ships: TS Bremen and MS Europa
1966. Stapled wraps. A striking promotional piece complete with mid-century fashion and advertising technique.The photos of mid-century cruise fashion are something else!
Berlin (DK Eyewitness Travel Guides)
London & New York: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2000. Soft cover. The guide that shows you what other travel books only tell you!
More Ports, More Happy Places: Further Adventures of an American Mother and Her Children in Europe
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth Hardcover. A narrative of travels in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Spain prior to World War II.
The Pageant of Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire Being A Lively Account of that Ancient Town in Great Britain: its Beginning and Its Later History: in Especial those Glorious Events that Marked the Great Siege and Siuuender, in the Year 1646, of its Noble Castle...
Newark, New Jersey: The Cateret Book Club, 1927. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Newark-on-Trent or Newark is a market town and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of the county of Nottinghamshire, England. It stands on the River Trent, the A1 - on the route of the ancient.....
The Adirondacks Our National Playground
The Delaware and Hudson Railway, was our country’s oldest surviving transportation company, with a corporate existence that spanned 168 years.What's left of the railroad is now split between Canadian Pacific and Norfolk Southern. The D&H began as a canal operation, the vision of early entrepreneurs to transport anthracite coal from.....
Santiago De Los Caballeros De Guatemala
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1935. Illustrations by Dorothy H. Popenoe. 2nd Edition. Very Good. An examination of the history and Guatemala and the ruins of the seat of Spanish Colonial government in Central America. Additionally, a memoir of the author's life there with her husband, a botanical explorer.Also contains a......
Rand McNally Guide to Boston and Environs
New York: Rand McNally, 1949. An annual publication.
St. Petersburg (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
DK Travel, 2007. A Fine Soft cover. Describes the major sights and attractions of Saint Petersburg and provides information on hotels, restaurants, cafes, galleries, and museums.
![Item #15622 Havana: The Portrait of a City [Pre-Revolution, Cuba]. W. Adolphe Roberts](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15622.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1654448810)
Havana: The Portrait of a City [Pre-Revolution, Cuba]
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1953. Early Printing. Very Good in a Fair Dust Jacket. Even though Havana is not Paris by a long jai-alai shot, it is a very exciting city and one better understood by the casual visitor who brings with him some knowledge of the Cuban capital's history.....
![Item #17131 [Columbia Exposition] Stark’s Guide and History of British Guiana containing a...](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17131.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690119609)
[Columbia Exposition] Stark’s Guide and History of British Guiana containing a description of everything relating to this colony that would be of interest to tourists and residents, respecting its history, inhabitants, climate, agriculture, geology, gold mining, government, and resources. . . .
Boston & London: James H. Stark, Publishers; & Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1892. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth Hardcover. Written for distribution for the British Guiana Exhibition at the 1893 Columbian World’s Fair. This informative first guidebook of British Guiana which was also a land promotion for investors. The.....