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Complete but no maps or other inserts present. Magazine Good condition, some cover & spine wear
Complete but no maps or other inserts present. Magazine Good condition, some cover & spine wear
Complete but no maps or other inserts present. Magazine Good condition, some cover & spine wear
Complete but no maps or other inserts present. Magazine Good condition, some cover & spine wear
Complete but no maps or other inserts present. Magazine Good condition, some cover & spine wear
Vintage pocket sized guidebook for tourists in Cyprus.128p. illus. maps index Book
A 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
1 cm tear to base to spine. Creasing. ; Green Guides; 10.1 X 4.6 X 0.5 inches; 150 pages
Minor 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
This 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.
Minor shelfwear. ; 8.4 X 5.7 X 1.3 inches; 351 pages
Accompanying 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
240 p. ; 22 cm. Paperback very good condition, covers lightly creased
Article by Erle Zwingle "Olive Oil : Elixir of the Gods' IN : National Geographic Vol.196 #3 September 1999 (pp. 66-81) Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked but sunned boards (spine and rear) and no bumping to corners. 417pp. Fictional reconstruction of the expedition from Peru to the Solomon Islands in 1595 in an attempt to discover Australia.
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, a trace of storage dustiness to upper page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with signs of storage and slight fading to spine. 330pp. A serious reference work of virtually every significant event in the history of flight, with over 500 photographs.
Book in 'as new' condition. 112pp. A concise study of space and the universe, space travel and the planets and the famous people who made the great discoveries about space.
Softcover with paper dust jacket. Dust jacket is very faded and grubby, with several nicks to upper and lower edges. Spine head is nicked and there is a large tear to the left side of spine foot. Spine is a little cocked. Small tears to leading corners of jacket. Covers are faded, edge - worn and a little foxed. Pamphlet on Exeter College, Oxford, is laid in between pages 10 and 11. Endpapers are a little foxed and there is intermittent light foxing throughout. Contents are clear. AF Used
Softcover. Considerably edge - worn covers with several light scorings and creases. Spine has several creases along length and two or three small grubby marks. Spine ends and leading corners are quite worn. Page block is rather grubby. Binding is sound and pages are tight and clean throughout. Text and illustrations are clear. AF Used
Hardcover. No jacket. Ex - library. Several marks and scores on boards. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are slightly worn and bumped. Library stamps on front board and FEP. Library plate on front pastedown. Names penned on FEP. A few marks in the volume. Binding is intact, contents are clear. AM Ex - Library
Paperback in very good condition. Extra leaflet laid-in. There are slight wear marks on the edges on the front and rear of the cover with a very minor bend on the rear upper leading corner. The book is otherwise in excellent condition and the pages in the main body are clean. GE Used
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very slight rubbing to spine ends. 288pp. Michael Wood travels in the footsteps of some of the great Spanish adventurers from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca and from North Mexico to Macu Picchu and tells the tale of those times. Illustrated.
