Penguin Great Journeys No. 1 / Full set of 20 volumes
1st edition. London : Penguin. Fine copies (20) in the original stiff-card wrappers. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Still in the publisher's shrinking wrap. Item #428010
Physical description; 20 issues, 20 cm. Contents;
- HEORODTUS - "Snakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants" - NORTH AFRICA (1)
- MAS'UDI - From "The Meadows of Gold" - THE MIDDLE EAST (2)
- MARCO POLO - "The Customs of the Kingdoms of India" - SOUTH ASIA (3)
- CABEZA DE VACA - "The Shipwrecked Men" - NORTH AMERICA (4)
- WILLIAM DAMPIER "Piracy, Turtles and Flying Foxes" - SOUTH-EAST ASIA (5)
- MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU - "Life on the Golden Horn" - ASIA MINOR (6)
- JAMES COOK - "Hunt for the Southern Continent" - SOUTH PACIFIC (7)
- OLAUDAH EQUIANO - "Sold as a Slave" - WEST AFRICA (8)
- ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT - "Jaguars and Electric Eels" - SOUTH AMERICA (9)
- SIR RICHARD BURTON - "To the Holy Shrines" - THE MIDDLE EAST (10)
- WALTER HENRY BATES - "In the Heart of the Amazon Forest" - SOUTH AMERICA (11)
- ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE - "Borneo, Celebes, Aru" - SOUTH-EAST ASIA (12)
- MARK TWAIN - "Can-cans, Cats and Cities of Ash" - EUROPE (13)
- ISABELLA BIRD - "Adventure in the Rocky Mountains" - NORTH AMERICA (14)
- ANTON CHEKHOV - "A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire" - NORTH-EAST ASIA (15)
- MARY KINGLSEY - "The Congo and the Cameroons" - EQUATORIAL WEST AFRICA (16)
- ERNEST SHACKLETON - "Escape from the Antarctic" - ANTARTICA (17)
- GEORGE ORWELL - "Fighting in Spain" - EUROPE (18)
- WILFRED THESIGER "Across the Empty Quarter" - THE MIDDLE EAST (19)
- RYSZARD KAPUSCINKSI - "The Cobra's Heart" - EAST AFRICA (20)
Subjects; World literature. Literature of the world. North Africa literature. Middle East literature. South Asia literature. North America literature. South-East Asia literature. Asia Minor literature. South Pacific literature. West Africa literature. South America literature. South-East Asia literature. Europe literature. North-East Asia literature. Equatorial West Africa literature. Antarctica literature. East Africa literature.
Price: €225.00