Emerson, Ralph WaldoMareMagnum
97pp. (part col.) 32 cm. Hardcover Good condition
1960278pp. 278 p. 20 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
1987Library sticker on front cover, inside front cover and title page, stamp to title page and page block. Published by the Office of Population, Census and Surveys, Social Survey Division Ex-Library
2007Very faint shelfwear. ; 288 pages; From the master of literary reportage whose acclaimed books include Shah of Shahs, The Emperor, and The Shadow of the Sun, an intimate account of his first youthful forays beyond the Iron Curtain. Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his editor that he’d like to go abroad. Dreaming no farther than Czechoslovakia, the young reporter found himself sent to India. Wide-eyed and captivated, he would discover in those days his life’s work—to understand and describe the world in its remotest reaches, in all its multiplicity. From the rituals of sunrise at Persepolis to the incongruity of Louis Armstrong performing before a stone-faced crowd in Khartoum, Kapuscinski gives us the non-Western world as he first saw it, through still-virginal Western eyes. The companion on his travels: a volume of Herodotus, a gift from his first boss. Whether in China, Poland, Iran, or the Congo, it was the “father of history”—and, as Kapuscinski would realize, of globalism—who helped the young correspondent to make sense of events, to find the story where it did not obviously exist. It is this great forerunner’s spirit—both supremely worldly and innately Occidental—that would continue to whet Kapuscinski’s ravenous appetite for discovering the broader world and that has made him our own indispensable companion on any leg of that perpetual journey.
1964238p. Illustrated with photographs. Small 8vo. Original decorated printed wraps. Rear wrap soiled. RELIGION BOX 11
197170p., illus. (part col.) 25 x 30 cm. Hardcover Good condition
1972Melville Bell GrosvenorIssue of National Geograpcontaining an illustrated article on cruising in the Greek Islands by (pp. 147-193) Book
1999Contains article by Erle Zwingle "Olive Oil : Elixir of the Gods' (pp. 66-81) Book
1931Complete but no maps or other inserts present. Magazine Good condition, some cover & spine wear
1936Complete but no maps or other inserts present. Magazine Good condition, some cover & spine wear
1936Complete but no maps or other inserts present. Magazine Good condition, some cover & spine wear
1936Complete but no maps or other inserts present. Magazine Good condition, some cover & spine wear
1936Complete but no maps or other inserts present. Magazine Good condition, some cover & spine wear
1936Complete but no maps or other inserts present. Magazine Good condition, some cover & spine wear
1937Complete but no maps or other inserts present. Magazine Good condition, some cover & spine wear
1985Vintage pocket sized guidebook for tourists in Cyprus.128p. illus. maps index Book
2003A blending of art and cultural criticism, travel writing, and personal narrative, Sicilian Odyssey is Francine Prose's imaginative consideration of the diverse cultural legacies found juxtaposed and entangled on the Mediterranean island of Sicily. She writes of the intensity of Sicily, the "commitment to the extreme," where the history is more colorful, the sun hotter, the cooking earthier, the violence more horrific, the carnival more raucous, the politics more Byzantine than other places on Earth, and how much the island can teach us about the triumph of beauty over violence and life over death. Prose examines architectural sites and objects and looks at the ways in which myth and actuality converge. Exploring the intact and beautiful Greek amphitheaters at Siracusa and Taormina, the cathedral at Monreale, the Roman mosaics at Piazza Armerina, and some of the masterpieces of the Baroque scattered throughout the island, Prose focuses her keen insight to imagine them in their own time, to examine the evolution and decline of the cultures that produced them, and to deconstruct powerful responses each evokes in her. ; National Geographic Directions; 8.1 X 5.7 X 0.9 inches; 192 pages
19921 cm tear to base to spine. Creasing. ; Green Guides; 10.1 X 4.6 X 0.5 inches; 150 pages
1986Minor shelfwear. ; An American woman residing in Sicily for the past twenty years portrays the Sicilian landscape and customs--both rural and urban--from the perspectives of both a "foreigner" and a resident. ; 8.0 X 5.5 X 1.0 inches; 336 pages
2007This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Sotheby's New York on December 11, 2007. Sale code: 8460 "PARSONS". The sale consisted of the travel library of David Parsons. 96 lots in the sale. All illustrated, many in color. Prices realized sheet included. 11" high X 8" wide, 164 pages.
1975Minor shelfwear. ; 8.4 X 5.7 X 1.3 inches; 351 pages
1998Accompanying the Channel 4 TV series, this text follows (100 years later) Mark Twain's bestselling account of his journey around the globe. The traveller is Sir Peter Ustinov, who sticks closely to Twain's original route, from luxurious cruise liner to the meat train from Bombay. Clean Copy
1990240 p. ; 22 cm. Paperback very good condition, covers lightly creased
1999Article by Erle Zwingle "Olive Oil : Elixir of the Gods' IN : National Geographic Vol.196 #3 September 1999 (pp. 66-81) Book
2002réf. N8150Maisonneuve & Larose, 2002, 224 p.