Adventure Exploration andTravel Used Books - Here are the latest additions to the Adventure Exploration andTravel category of the Mary Ward Used Books catalogue http://www.marywardbooks.com/categories/53.htmlComments: pristine- almost as new . Format: Paperback. Pages: 80. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0852636873.htmlGuild publishing London/Pavilion books 1989: boxed edition: mottled red hardcover with green cloth spine: red slipcover : slipcover and cover have inset illustration andquot;Happy Christmasandquot; by Viggo Johansson: 111 pages: mottled endpapers matching cover: colour illustrations, many full-page. Synopsis : a decorative anthology of Christmas verse and prose. Condition: small bookplate to front end cover: very clean and good overall/ as new. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/B000KXDW7K.htmlDescription: Elek Books 1973: first edition blue cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine : dust jacket: approximately 5.5 x 8.75 inches tall: 223 pages: coloured maps to endpapers: black and white line drawings, diagrams, and photographic illustrations. Synopsis: The autobiographical story of a Scottish ex-farmer and his family who, whilest sailing a 43 foot schooner in the Pacific in 1972, were attacked by a school of killer whales. The farmer and his five-man crew ( wife, 18-year-old son, 12-year-old twin boys, and student friend ) escaped in an inflatable rubber raft towed by a 9 foot fibreglass dinghy , to head for the coast of Costa Rica, 1000 miles and an estimated 50 days away. Equipped with only three days of emergency rations and no maps or instrument of any kind they endured 37 days of struggle against hunger, thirst, mountainous seas, marauding sharks, storms, calms, equatorial heat and other dangers, surviving against all odds until they were rescued by a Japanese fishing boat, 290 miles before the intended completion of their journey. Dougal Robertson details this story of survival, and complements it with line drawings, maps, diagrams and photographs. Condition: Price corner removed: overall very clean and good http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0236154613....htmlComments: pristine - as new- immediate availability. Format: Hardcover. Pages: 184. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/070640288X.htmlElek Books 1973: first edition blue cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine : dust jacket: approximately 5.5 x 8.75 inches tall: 223 pages: coloured maps to endpapers: black and white line drawings, diagrams, and photographic illustrations. Synopsis: The autobiographical story of a Scottish ex-farmer and his family who, whilest sailing a 43 foot schooner in the Pacific in 1972, were attacked by a school of killer whales. The farmer and his five-man crew ( wife, 18-year-old son, 12-year-old twin boys, and student friend ) escaped in an inflatable rubber raft towed by a 9 foot fibreglass dinghy , to head for the coast of Costa Rica, 1000 miles and an estimated 50 days away. Equipped with only three days of emergency rations and no maps or instrument of any kind they endured 37 days of struggle against hunger, thirst, mountainous seas, marauding sharks, storms, calms, equatorial heat and other dangers, surviving against all odds until they were rescued by a Japanese fishing boat, 290 miles before the intended completion of their journey. Dougal Robertson details this story of survival, and complements it with line drawings, maps, diagrams and photographs. Condition: Price corner removed: overall very clean and good http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0236154613.htmlOrbis Publishing, 1978: hardcover in dust jacket: approximately 9 by 12 inches tall: 128 pages: colour illustrated through out. Synopsis: detailed information about many individual species of mineral supported by more than a hundred coloured photographs: foreword written by Sir Frank Claringbull, one-time keeper Minerology at the British Museum. Contents:- The mineral kingdom. Classification of minerals. The minerals. Class one: native elements. Class two: sulphides. Class three: halides. Class four: oxides and hydroxides. Class five: carbonates, borates and niterate,s. Class six: sulphates and related minerals. Chromates Molybdates and tungstates. Class seven: phosphates, arsenates, and vandadates. Class eight: silicates. Nesosilicates, Sorosilicates. Cyclosilicates. Inosilicates. Phyllosilicates. Tektosilicates. Bibliography. Condition: dust cover damaged and repaired , price corner removed: overall clean and good http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0856132039.htmlComments: upper extreme right corner creased ownership inscription to end paper- overall very cleann and good . Format: Paperback. Pages: 256. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0140551026.htmlSynopsis: This catalogue of a major exhibition of small-scale paintings by Goya surveys his work throughout his career. It includes sketches for tapestry cartoons, for his major altarpieces, his small portraits and the series of small paintings of the 1790s.Comments: probably unread . Format: Paperback. Pages: 392. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0300058640.htmlOxford University Press 1986: Hardcover in dust jacket approximately 7.2 by 10 inches tall: 192 pages: black and white photographic illustrations, drawings, and maps . Synopsis: Anthony Burton's account of his travels through Britain in the footsteps of eight famous travellers whose recorded journeys are well known. The author relives selected parts of these journeys, travelling on foot, by narrow boat, on a tandem, and by train and car noting changes and similarities in people and places encountered on the way. His journeys involve the following: -- The Working Thames : The description of the two famous rivers of Thame and Isis, 1632 written by John Taylor (1580 -- 1653). A Sovereign Remedy for the Vapours: Through England on sidesaddle in the time of William and Mary written by Celia Fiennes (1662 -- 1741). The Useless Hills: A Tour through the whole Island of Great Britain 1724 -- 6, written by Daniel Defoe (1661 -- 1731). A Foreign Land: A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland 1775, written by Samuel Johnson (1709 -- 84). On Four Legs: Rural Rides, 1830 written by William Cobbett (1763 -- 1835) . Round the Coast and under the Sea: Rambles beyond Railways 1851, written by Wilkie Collins (1824 -- 89). Hills, Mines, and Bards: Wild Wales 1862, written by George Borrow (1803 -- 81). A Dram at the End of the Day: The whisky distilleries of the United Kingdom 1887, written by Alfred Barnard. Condition: very clean and good overall. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0192116592.htmlMeridian 1978 paperback: approximately 5.25 x 8 inches tall: 448 pages. Synopsis: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Percy Bysshe Shelley (born 1792. Drowned at sea 1822) Edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom, this paperback volume includes poetry and prose written during Shelley's 29 years from his earliest accomplishment to his final poetic achievement. The following are among the 60 selected entries : -- Prometheus Unbound, Hymns of Apollo, The Triumph of Life, The Witch of Atlas, Ode to the West Wind, Helass, Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, To a Skylark, Mont Blanc,Adonais , On a Future State, and A Defence of Poetry. Condition cover edges rubbed: ownership inscription: pages tanned: a overall acceptable http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/MW005181713.htmlSynopsis: Freudian thought permeates many aspects of 20th-century life, and to understand Freud is to explore not only his scientific papers but also his writings on art, literature, politics, religion and culture. Containing 51 texts which span Freuds entire career, from early case histories, through his work on dreams and essays on sexuality, and on to his late writings (including Civilisation and Its Discontents), this book brings together his ideas as a scientist, humanist, doctor and philosopher. Introductions to the texts are provided by Peter Gay, who has also written a general introduction which places the man and his work in the context of his time and culture.Comments: pristine - as new- immediate availability- Vintage paperback 1995- 832 pages. Format: Paperback. Pages: 832. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/99577119.htmlDrive Publications; 1985 first edition board book; 448 pages including index; colour illustrations and maps throughout. Condition: as new http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0393023451%202n.htmlM Joseph ; 1981 first edition hard cover in dust jacket; 160 pages including index; b/w illustrations. Synopsis. The author's autobiographicl account of his work during the Second World War when he worked under the direction od M 16 and M 19 inventing and producing ingenious gadgets to aid secret agents, partisans and escaping prisoners. Condition as new ; small price corner removed. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/0718120353.htmlComments: 1973 edition in very good clean condition. Format: Hardcover. Pages: 0. http://www.marywardbooks.com/books/713504293.html