Corners of D/J slightly chipped. Small tear to tail of D/J spine, Inch closed tear to head of D/J spine. This work provides an intellectual context of exploration. The author asks, how did explorers and their patrons understand the expanding world and their place in it? What were they really seeking, and how did they believe they could achieve it? How did they balance the known and the unknown in their minds? Historical maps are important in answering these questions, and this book displays the geographical ideas of the explorers themselves, through the maps they used or the new maps which they caused to be made. The power that came with increasing technological and geographical knowledge is made plain by the European empires that grew out of conquest, annexation and exploitation. There are maps, which although they seem innacurate and imaginative, serve as reminders of the gaps in people's knowledge. Up until very recent times, as maps show, there have been areas of the world remaining to be explored and "new found lands" to discover. 200pp.
The British Library, 1998, Cloth, Book Condition: Fine, Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

ISBN: 0712345574

Inventory #21531

Price: £ 15.00 GBP ($ 23.70 approx. - € 18.12 approx.)

Story of life among the miners and their families during the early day's of the West's richest twentieth-century mining towns.127pp.
University of Nevada Press, 1991, Paperback, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: . . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0874171695

Inventory #4451

Price: £ 7.50 GBP ($ 11.85 approx. - € 9.06 approx.)

In the spring of 2007 the Canadian Forces and the Canadian Rangers, the regiment responsible for providing a military presence in isolated communities, set out on a treacherous journey across jagged sea ice and over steep and hostile terrain. Their mission was to travel over two thousand kilometres by snowmobile from Resolute to the Canadian Forces Station Alert, and plant a Canadian flag en-route at Ward Hunt Island. Author, photographer and filmmaker Dianne Whelan is the first woman to accompany the Rangers on this never before patrolled route of the north-western coast of Ellesmere Island. Walking in the path of the historic giants of exploration, they were the first to reach this destination in the High Arctic since American explorer Robert E Peary's famous voyage in 1906. Operation Nunalivut (the Inuktitut word for 'land that is ours') pushes Whelan to her physical and emotional limits. There are some chilling moments, such as when her snowmobile catches fire or later when she plunges into a twenty-foot crack in the ice, but Whelan boldly faces conditions only few can imagine and makes history as the first woman to successfully complete the gruelling trip. In "This Vanishing Land" Whelan shares her personal journey and explores the tumultuous political history and global significance of the Canadian High Arctic. 175pp.
Caitlin Press Inc., 2009, Card Covers, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 9781894759380

Inventory #23948

Price: £ 16.00 GBP ($ 25.28 approx. - € 19.33 approx.)

Corners of D/J slightly bumped. The beach is the favourite getaway destination for most of us. Using numerous paintings, photographs and advertisements, this book charts the evolution of the seaside, from ancient societies, through the development of famous resorts to the present-day quest for the luxurious and unspoiled. 310pp.
Secker & Warburg, 1998, Cloth, Book Condition: Fine, Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0436412179

Inventory #21694

Price: £ 5.00 GBP ($ 7.90 approx. - € 6.04 approx.)

Edges slightly rubbed. Emily Eden was born in 1797 into the charmed inner circle of the English upper class who conducted the country's political life. In 1836 this prominent member of Whig society joined her brother George in India where he was Governor-General. She stayed there for six years, during which time she embarked on a two-year-long tour of the country. With an unfailing eye for the eccentric and picturesque, Emily Eden describes in her delightful letters the extraordinary experiences encountered in life on the road in early eighteenth-century India. 410pp.
Virago Press Ltd, 1984, Paperback, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. Reprint. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0860684407

Inventory #21676

Price: £ 5.00 GBP ($ 7.90 approx. - € 6.04 approx.)