Category: Exploration

The skinning knife

Price: $198.97 USD

Publisher: Birmingham, AL, M.H. Cole : 1996

Seller ID: 62362

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

In new condition.Dust is in mylar cover. Never read. Author also published the series on U.S. Military Knives, Bayonets & Machetes in the 1990's and The Best of US Military Knives: Bayonets & Machetes in 2002.Paul Granger wrote a review that says: "M H Cole is a masterful illustrator the likes of which are extremely few and far between. Tragically his books are out of print and difficult to find. "The Skinning Knife" is still available. I would encourage any serious knife collector to aquire a copy if at all possible. It chronicles this vital segment of our nations knife history expertly with ...
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Life and travel in Tartary, Thibet, and China Being a narrative of the Abbe Huc's travels in the Far East

By: Jones, M

Price: $67.97 USD

Publisher: London, T. Nelson and Sons : 1872

Seller ID: 57780

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Brown leather cover with newly restored leather spine with gold print. Contents complete with browning to pages due to age. Color plates and black and white engraving throughout. Very colorful. Évariste Régis Huc, or Abbé Huc, (1813?1860) was a French missionary traveller, famous for his accounts of China, Tartary and Tibet. Since the travels of the Englishman, Thomas Manning, in Tibet (1811?1812), no European had visited Lhasa. Huc stimulated European interest in Central Asia and blazed a trail for Asian studies. Huc devoted himself to the study of the dialects and customs of the "Tatars," f...
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The Wonders of the Artic World:A History of All the Researches and Discoveries in the Frozen Regions of the North, From the Earliest Times; With the Polaris Expedition

By: Sargent, Epes

Price: $19.97 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia PA, Andrus & Judd : 1873

Seller ID: 63881

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with No dust jacket as issued

Original 1873 red hardback edition with black lettering. Not a reprint or POD. Hinges weak but not broken, however the title page is loose from binding but complete. Edges and top and bottom of spine and corners beginning to frey as are the edges of the gutters.Contents very clean as are the illustrations. "With sketches of the Cabots, Frobisheer, Hudson, Baffin, Behring, Cook, Ross, Franklin, Parry, Back, Rae, McClontock, Kane,Hayes, Hall and others....Includes the Polaris Expedition by William H. Cunnington... Sold only by Subscription." Item now in archival sleeve to preserve and protect c...
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By Flood and Field; Adventures Ashore and Afloat in North Australia

By: Searcy, Alfred

Price: $10.97 USD

Publisher: Andesite Press : 2015

Seller ID: 62429

ISBN-13: 9781298775412

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued

Reprint of 1912 book..This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. The author describes the adventure, mystery, and backgroud of this vast area of North Australia and the attempts of the British Empire to settle and tame the area. It contains stories about the area including Cattle Stealers, Murder, the Maylays, a fight with a Python, and many more. A wonderful description about this wild area of Australia, it's people, and place in history. Item now in archival sleeve to preserve and protect condition. ...
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Category: Exploration

The skinning knife

Life and travel in Tartary, Thibet, and China Being a narrative of the Abbe Huc's travels in the Far East

The Wonders of the Artic World:A History of All the Researches and Discoveries in the Frozen Regions of the North, From the Earliest Times; With the Polaris Expedition

By Flood and Field; Adventures Ashore and Afloat in North Australia