The author of this book spent a year travelling round Mexico with a circus - big top, clowns, elephants and all. She and her husband, photographer Tom Owen-Edmunds, lived with the circus - riding the elephants and playing clowns as part of the show. Further afield they tracked down the remains of ancient Mayan civilizations and hunted down the last, dying members of Pancho Villa's famous outlaw army. This travel book records the sights seen on their travels as well as featuring the people and characters of the circus and those they met en-route.301pp.
HarperCollins, 1993, Cloth, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0002159279

Inventory #22023

Price: £ 10.00 GBP ($ 15.80 approx. - € 12.08 approx.)

Adela Breton (1849-1923) was a Victorian gentlewoman whose parents supported her education and artistic training. Anthropology and the 'new' science of geology appealed to her father and soon captured her own interest. After her father's death in 1887, Adela began a lifetime of travel, exploring past cultures and landscapes. Often camping or staying in small villages, accompanied only by her Indian guide and companion, she created a pictorial account of the Mexican countryside in the 1890s. Famed archaeologist and fellow Briton Alfred P Maudslay, aware of Adela's talents, asked her to return to Mexico and check his copies of the murals at the ruins of Chichen Itza in the jungles of the Yucatan. This was the turning point in her career that would lead to international recognition as an archaeological copyist, researcher, and interpreter of the rapidly disappearing painted walls of ancient Mexico. Today her artwork is the only detailed colour record of many aspects of the Pre-Columbian past. When the Mexican Revolution of 1910 ended her travels to Mexico, she turned her inquiring mind to linguistics and began her study and copying of rare colonial-era documents.218pp.
University of New Mexico Press, 2005, Cloth, Book Condition: New, Jacket Condition: New. . . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

ISBN: 0826336787

Inventory #17616

Price: £ 18.00 GBP ($ 28.44 approx. - € 21.74 approx.)

In Britannia's Daughters novelist Joanna Trollope examines the contribution of women in building and sustaining the British Empire. She draws on a vast range of sources, including diaries and letters home. 224pp.
The Cresset Library, 1988, Paperback, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0091732255

Inventory #21665

Price: £ 5.00 GBP ($ 7.90 approx. - € 6.04 approx.)

Story of life among the miners and their families during the early day's of the West's richest twentieth-century mining towns.127pp.
University of Nevada Press, 1991, Paperback, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: . . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0874171695

Inventory #4451

Price: £ 7.50 GBP ($ 11.85 approx. - € 9.06 approx.)

This is a detailed biography, of Miss Amelia B Edwards; founder of the Egypt Exploration Fund, as it was originally known. Miss Edwards (1831-1892) was a well-known novelist who became interested in preserving Egypt's ancient monuments while on a cruise in 1873-4, the subject of her best-selling travel book "A Thousand Miles Up The Nile".319pp. N.B. Dent to foredge of rear board otherwise As New.
Egypt Exploration Society, 2006, Cloth/Laminated Boards, Book Condition: Fine, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0856981699

Inventory #24066

Price: £ 30.00 GBP ($ 47.40 approx. - € 36.24 approx.)

N.B. Previous owners bookplate on inside cover. Previous owners inscription on half title page. 248pp.
Macdonald Webb & Bower, 1984, Paperback, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. First British Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0356105431

Inventory #23485

Price: £ 9.50 GBP ($ 15.01 approx. - € 11.48 approx.)

EX LIBRARY. ffep missing. Library sticker on title page. 248pp.
Webb & Bower, 1988, Cloth, Book Condition: Good, Jacket Condition: Good. Third Impression. Ex Library. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

ISBN: 0863502539

Inventory #21162

Price: £ 10.00 GBP ($ 15.80 approx. - € 12.08 approx.)

Slight reading crease to the spine. Corners slightly creased. In January 1896, at the age of 64, the indomitable Isabella Bird set off to explore the Yangtze River and the lonely mountain region of north-west China. A veteran of 20 years travel in America, Asia and the Near East, it was her last great adventure, but one as full of drama and spectacle as anything that had gone before. Eschewing the leisure enjoyed by England's expatriate community in Shanghai, she was thrilled and occasionally aghast at what she found in the little-known land which lay beyond. Travelling alone by riverboat and basket chair, she made her way almost to the Tibetan border, staying in inns and mission stations, observing with fascination the landscape and customs of the people, surviving the terror of a lynching mob, the hostitily of officials who would block her path and the perils of snow storms at 12,000 feet. 547pp.
Virago Press Ltd, 1985, Paperback, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0860687902

Inventory #21673

Price: £ 5.00 GBP ($ 7.90 approx. - € 6.04 approx.)

Edges slightly rubbed. Emily Eden was born in 1797 into the charmed inner circle of the English upper class who conducted the country's political life. In 1836 this prominent member of Whig society joined her brother George in India where he was Governor-General. She stayed there for six years, during which time she embarked on a two-year-long tour of the country. With an unfailing eye for the eccentric and picturesque, Emily Eden describes in her delightful letters the extraordinary experiences encountered in life on the road in early eighteenth-century India. 410pp.
Virago Press Ltd, 1984, Paperback, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. Reprint. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0860684407

Inventory #21676

Price: £ 5.00 GBP ($ 7.90 approx. - € 6.04 approx.)