Exploration and Travel Archives

Books on exploration and travel capture some of history’s greatest journeys. From global travel narratives to polar expedition and Everest mountaineering accounts, our books record courage, endurance, and discovery. They reflect experiences shaped by extreme and unforgettable environments.

Exploration and Travel

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Alfred Wainwright – A Dales Sketchbook – First Edition 1976

Alfred Wainwright – A Dales Sketchbook – UNBOUND PROOF COPY 1976

Alfred Wainwright – A Dales Sketchbook [with] A Second Dales Sketchbook – UNBOUND PROOF COPIES 1976/77

Alfred Wainwright – A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells – Book One The Eastern Fells – First Edition 1955

Alfred Wainwright – A Ribble Sketchbook – First Edition 1980

Alfred Wainwright – An Eden Sketchbook – First Edition 1980

Alfred Wainwright – An Eden Sketchbook – UNBOUND PROOF COPY 1980

Alfred Wainwright – Fellwanderer [with] Ex-Fellwanderer – First Edition Double Set

Alfred Wainwright – Furness Sketchbook [with] A Second Furness Sketchbook – First Editions

Alfred Wainwright – Wainwright in Lakeland – SIGNED First Edition 1983

Alfred Wainwright- Pennine Way Companion – First Edition 1968

All Wainwright – All five volumes of Lakeland Mountain Drawings in dust wrappers – First Editions

Anthony Bourdain – Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly – First Edition 2000

Anthony Bourdain – Les Halles Cookbook – SIGNED First Edition 2004

Anthony Bourdain – Medium Raw – First Edition 2010

Anthony Bourdain – No Reservations – First US Edition 2007

Anthony Burgess – Devil Of A State – First Edition 1961

Artemis Cooper – Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure – SIGNED First UK Edition 2012

Berkely Mather [Ian Fleming] – The Pass Beyond Kashmir – First Edition 1960

Betty James – London On A Sunday; A Sort of Guide Book – First Edition 1964

Bruce Chatwin – In Patagonia – First Folio Edition 2016

Business Card [with] Photo – SIGNED by James Irwin – Astronaut

Captain Richard Phillips – A Captain’s Duty – SIGNED by Captain Phillips 2010

Cecil Beaton – Far East – First Edition 1945

Chris Bonington – Everest The Hard Way – First Edition 1976

Chris Bonington – Everest The Hard Way – First Edition 1976

Chris Bonington & Charles Clarke – Everest – The Unclimbed Ridge – SIGNED First Edition 1983

Colin Thubron – Distance – SIGNED First Edition 1996

Colin Thubron – In Siberia – SIGNED First Edition 1999

Colin Thubron – Mirror To Damascus – First UK Edition 1967

Colin Thubron – To A Mountain In Tibet – SIGNED First Edition 2011

Daily Telegraph Newspaper – Apollo 11 Moon Landing – 21 July 1969 – Framed

Daniel Defoe – A Tour Through The Whole Island of Great Britain – First Folio Edition 2006

Daphne du Maurier – Enchanted Cornwall – First Edition 1989 – SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the Editor With card from Piers Dudgeon and note on Menabilly paper from Daphne du Maurier

David Attenborough – Zoo Quest to Guiana [with] Zoo Quest for a Dragon [with] Zoo Quest in Paraguay [with] Quest in Paradise [with] Zoo Quest to Madagascar [with] Quest under Capricorn. THE ZOO QUEST’ SERIES COMPLETE IN DUSTWRAPPERS – the first volume SIGNED WITHOUT DEDICATION

David Attenborough – Zoo Quest to Guiana [with] Zoo Quest for a Dragon [with] Zoo Quest in Paraguay [with] Quest in Paradise [with] Zoo Quest to Madagascar [with] Quest under Capricorn. THE ‘ZOO QUEST’ SERIES COMPLETE IN DUSTWRAPPERS – A Superb Set in remarkable condition

David Attenborough – Zoo Quest to Guiana [with] Zoo Quest for a Dragon [with] Zoo Quest in Paraguay [with] Quest in Paradise [with] Zoo Quest to Madagascar [with] Quest Under Capricorn. THE ZOO QUEST’ SERIES COMPLETE IN DUSTWRAPPERS

David Hempleman-Adams – At The Mercy Of The Winds – SIGNED and INSCRIBED First Edition 2001

David Hockney + Stephen Spender – China Diary – First Edition 1982

Dorothy Thompson – Climbing with Joseph Georges – First Edition 1962 – with SIGNED archive

Dougal Haston – Calculated Risk – First Edition 1979 – SIGNED by Doug Scott

Douglas Mawson – SIGNED Letter

Edmund Hillary – High Adventure – First UK Edition 1955 – SIGNED by Hillary

Edward Thomas – In Pursuit of Spring – First Edition 1914 -The true first issue

Edwin Mickleburgh – Beyond The Frozen Sea: Visions of Antarctica – Uncorrected Proof Copy 1987

Eric Newby – A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush – First UK Edition 1958

Ernest Shackleton – SOUTH – First UK Edition 1919 – with the rare Heinemann Advertising Postcard

Evelyn Waugh – A Tourist In Africa – First Edition 1960

George Bull – Venice – The Most Triumphant City – First Folio Edition 1980

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H.E. Bates – A Breath Of French Air – First UK Edition 1959

Hammond Innes – The Last Voyage – SIGNED First Edition 1978

Heinrich Harrer – Seven Years In Tibet – First UK Edition 1953

Heinrich Harrer – Seven Years In Tibet – First UK Edition with Band

Heinrich Harrer – The White Spider – The History of the Eiger’s North Face – First Edition 1959

Heinrich Harrer – The White Spider – The History of the Eiger’s North Face – First Edition 1959 – SIGNED by Kurt Diemberger

Henry Green – Party Going – First Edition 1939

Henry Tuck – Tuck’s Railway Map – First Edition 1848

Hugh Ruttledge – Everest 1933 – First Edition 1934 – In the elusive dust wrapper

Isak Dinesen – Shadows On The Grass – First Edition 1960

J.D. Carr – A Season in Sinji – First UK Edition 1967 – SIGNED

James Clavell – Asia Saga – Comprising: King Rat/Tai-Pan/Shogun/Noble House/Whirlwind/Gai-Jin – First Edition Collection 1963-93

James Herriot – James Herriot’s Yorkshire – First Edition 1979

James Herriot – James Herriot’s Yorkshire – First Edition 1979 – SIGNED by the Actor Peter Davison (Tristan in the original BBC Series)

James Herriot – James Herriot’s Yorkshire – First Edition 1979 – SIGNED by the AUTHOR and PHOTOGRAPHER

James Herriot – James Herriot’s Yorkshire – SIGNED by Herriot and Brabbs 1979

James Herriot – James Herriot’s Yorkshire – SIGNED First Edition 1979

Jerome K. Jerome – The Diary of a Pilgrimage – First Edition 1891

Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger – Lost Moon – The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 – First US Edition 1994 – SIGNED by Lovell

Joan Blaeu – Scotia and Hibernia

Joe Simpson – Touching The Void – First Folio Edition 2008

Joe Simpson – Touching The Void – First UK Edition – 1988

John Betjeman [John Gay] – London’s Historic Railway Stations – First Edition 1972

John Glenn – Signature with Photograph – SIGNED by John Glenn – Astronaut

John Hunt – The Ascent of Everest – First UK Edition 1953

John Hunt – The Ascent of Everest – First UK Edition 1953 – SIGNED by Alfred Gregory

John Hunt – The Ascent of Everest – First UK Edition 1953 – SIGNED by Sir John Hunt

John Hunt – The Ascent of Everest – First UK Edition 1953 – SIGNED by the Author and Tom Bourdillon with letter from Bourdillon