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Rediscovery Books is dedicated to bringing old books back to life. By combining our unique skills with the latest advances in technology, we are able to bring the wealth of knowledge and experience from times past back into affordable print. Our initial publications are from a series that is being created from the archives of the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers and which provides a fantastic insight into the lives of travellers and the people and places they visited throughout the world in a previous era.

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A NARRATIVE OF THE MISSION SENT BY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA TO THE COURT OF AVA IN 1855, with notices of the country, government, and people
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A NARRATIVE OF THE MISSION SENT BY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA TO THE COURT OF AVA IN 1855, with notices of the country, government, and people
Product Code: 9212

Richly illustrated narrative by Henry Yule of a mission to the King of Ava. In his capacity as secretary to the British envoy, Major Arthur Phayre, Yule describes the journey, architecture and people in fascinating detail.

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Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea, and the great Loo-Choo Island; with an appendix containing charts, and various hydrographical and scientific notes
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Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea, and the great Loo-Choo Island; with an appendix containing charts, and various hydrographical and scientific notes
Product Code: 9773

A charming description of an 1816 expedition to Korea and Loo-CHoo island with colour illustrations of the islanders that created a sensation when first published.

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ACCOUNT OF AN EMBASSY TO THE COURT OF THE TESHOO LAMA IN TIBET; containing a narrative of a journey through Bootan, and a part of Tibet
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ACCOUNT OF AN EMBASSY TO THE COURT OF THE TESHOO LAMA IN TIBET; containing a narrative of a journey through Bootan, and a part of Tibet
Product Code: 9211

In 1774 the Teshoo Lama, Regent of Tibet and Guardian to the infant Dalai Lama, received a deputation from the Governor of Bengal, headed by Mr George Bogle, with whom the Teshoo Lama was much taken. This warm relationship led in 1779 to an invitation from the Teshoo Lama to join him in Pekin whe...

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Albert N'yanza, great basin of the Nile, and explorations of the nile sources
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Albert N'yanza, great basin of the Nile, and explorations of the nile sources
Product Code: 9764

In 1863 Samuel White Baker, accompanied by his wife, discovered Albert N'Yanza, which he named after the Queen's late Consort. These two volumes describe his numerous adventures and as he says himself; 'Having thus completed the work after nearly five years passed in Africa, there still remains a...

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ANDREE AND HIS BALLOON
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ANDREE AND HIS BALLOON
Product Code: 9216

On the afternoon of Sunday 11th July 1897 Salomon-Auguste Andree and two companions left the port of Virgo, Spitzbergen in a balloon heading for the North Pole. They were not seen again until the summer of 1930. This detailed account of the preparations and departure of the epic flight by two me...

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Arctic explorations in the years 1853,’54,’55: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin
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Arctic explorations in the years 1853,’54,’55: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin
Product Code: 9778

Following an earlier attempt on which he served as medical officer, these two volumes chart Elisha Kent Kane's second expedition, which he this time headed, to search for Sir John Franklin. Kane was an American Navy surgeon whose books about his various travels caught the imagination of the Ameri...

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COOMASSIE AND MAGDALA: The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa
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COOMASSIE AND MAGDALA: The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa
Product Code: 9205

A classic account by the journalist turned explorer H.M. Stanley of two mid 19th century African campaigns, conducted in Ethiopia and west Africa. Profusely illustrated with maps and plates.

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EXPEDITION TO BORNEO OF H.M.S. DIDO FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY: with extracts from the Journals of James Brooke, Esq. of Sarawak (now agent for the British Government in Borneo)
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EXPEDITION TO BORNEO OF H.M.S. DIDO FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY: with extracts from the Journals of James Brooke, Esq. of Sarawak (now agent for the British Government in Borneo)
Product Code: 9210

Well-illustrated two volume account of a punitive expedition against pirates and head-hunting Dyak tribesmen in mid 19th-century Borneo. Contains the journals of the famous imperialist James ‘Rajah’ Brooke of Sarawak.

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Golden Chersonese and the way tither
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Golden Chersonese and the way tither
Product Code: 9767

A delightful description of her travels in Malaya and China in the 1880s by that intrepid lady Isabella L. Bird, first female member of the Royal Geographical Society and doyenne of all women travel writers.

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ISMAILIA: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade
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ISMAILIA: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade
Product Code: 9202

Two volume 1874 memoirs by the Victorian explorer Sir Samuel Baker of his expedition to crush the slave trade in Sudan and Uganda. A thrilling epic of hardship and endurance. Fully illustrated.

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