Eccentric Travellers

Author(s): Keay, John

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Very Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Dust Jacket Condition:	Very Good
Edition:	1st Edition
Impression:	1st Impression
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	John Murray
Publication Year:	1982
ISBN:	9780719538681
Book ID:	004500
Catalogue(s):	Travel, Exploration and Topography

1st edition, first printing (true first). 216pp. Illustrated with monochrome plates. Orange cloth-covered boards (square, clean). Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper, else neat, clean bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (very slightly rubbed on corners and spine ends). Features the explorations of Fr Clifford Palgrave, the first westerner to reach Riyadh; Thomas Manning, the brilliant linguist, the first European to enter Lhasa; Charles Waterton, proclaimed the first naturalist for his trips to Guiana etc.

Keywords:

travel exploration natural history