Classics of Exploration 16 Volumes
Author: Various
Publisher: Time Life Books
Edition: First. 2006. Facsimile copy of the first edition
Language: English
Condition: Good. Clean copies with tight binding.
Binding: Hardcover. Leatherette covers with gilt edged pages
Pages: Various
Additional Information
Each volume is a personal narrative of travel by well known explorers in the 19th and 20th century. These books are a must for any student of history, exploration and mankind.
The 16 volumes are:
1. Cabool by Lieut.- Col. Sir Alexander Burne.
2. Missionary Travels by David Livingstone.
3. Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen H. Layard.
4. A Year Amongst the Persians by Edward G. Browne.
5. First Footsteps in East Africa by Captain Sir Richard F. Burton Volume I.
6. First Footsteps in East Africa by Captain Sir Richard F. Burton Volume II.
7. South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 by Sir Ernest Shackleton.
8. The North Pole by Robert E. Peary.
9. Explorations & Adventures in Equatorial Africa by Paul B. Du Chaillu.
10. How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa by Henry M. Stanley.
11. A Voyage to New South Wales by George Barrington.
12. The Discovery of The Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke.
13. Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69 by Edward Whymper.
14. The Head-Hunters of Borneo by Carl Bock.
15. Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa by Frederick Courtney Selous.
16. In The Forbidden Land by A. Henry Savage Landor
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