My First Voyage: A Book for Youth by William Stones
550.00 NZD
Category: Exploration
Although classified as fiction, what the author is doing is relating facts about world travels in a style designed to appeal to the youth. Includes instruction on the use of scientific instruments by travellers–an idea adopted not long after by The Royal Geographical Society in "Hints to Travellers". ...Show more
Antarctic Penguins by Dr. G. Murray Levick, R.N.
550.00 NZD
Category: Exploration
Dr G. Murray Levick, R.N. was the zoologist to the British Antarctic Expedition (1910-1913).Valuable work including many photos of penguins (see the angry Adele p.2).
Far-Fetched Facts - The Literature of Travel and the Idea of the South Seas by Neil Rennie
65.00 NZD
Category: Literature
Far-Fetched Facts is an essay in the history of the literature of travel, real and imaginary, from classical times, via the early accounts of the New World, to the accounts of the South Sea islands that lay beyond. It follows continuities from the Odyssey to the twentieth century and traces the interpla ...Show more
Under Queen and Khedive by Walter Mieville
95.00 NZD
Category: Exploration
Under Queen and Khedive: The Autobiography of an Anglo-Egyptian Official Under Queen and Khedive: The Autobiography of an Anglo-Egyptian Official is a memoir written by Walter Mieville, a British civil servant who worked in Egypt during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this book, Mieville pro ...Show more
The Crossing of Antarctica; the Commonwealth Transantarctic Expedition, 1955-1958 by Vivian Fuchs (Created by); Edmund 1919-2008 Hillary (Created by)
35.00 NZD
Category: Exploration
This book is the full story told by the leadre of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition and by Sir Edmund Hillary, leader of the New Zealand support party. Beginning with the landing of the advance party in November 1955 to establish a basr on the Wedell Sea when, like Shackle-ton, Fuchs found his ...Show more
Little America by Richard Evelyn Byrd
45.00 NZD
Category: Exploration
Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic & the Flight to the South Pole
Experiments in Civilisation by Ian H. Hogbin
54.00 NZD
Category: Exploration
Experiments in Civilization
Steam on the Waitemata by W. W. Stewart
38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Stream on the Waitemata.
The Life and Times of Sir Julius von Haast by H F von Haast
50.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The Life and Times of Sir Julius Von Haast, Explorer, Geologist, Museum Builder
The Shepherd of the Ocean by ADAMSON, J.H & FOLLAND, H.F.
15.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The Shepherd of The Ocean. An Account of Sir Walter Ralegh and his Times
Kanchenjunga by John Tucker
30.00 NZD
Category: Exploration
This book gives a useful and exciting summary of the earliest attempts at Kachenjunga, and in this way it presents the entire history of the mountain.
A Journal of A Voyage Around the World by Charles Darwin
155.00 NZD
Category: Exploration
Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle around the world under the command of captain fitz roy, R.N.