Galapagos archipelago
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Contents - five days at jerusalem; sicily as it is; china (pages ), cochin china and japan; islands of the indian and eastern seas; up and down the amoor; from asia to america; vancouver island; from the atlantic to the pacific; cremation ghats at calcutta; cuba and the cubans; to cuba and back; the search for the franklin expedition; dalmatia; galapagos archipelago; coral islands; maldiva islands; society islands; mount athos and its monasteries; the great plains of north america; travel and sporting adventures in south africa; the steppes of russia and the caucasus; morocco or maroccothere are 72 full pages plates in this book, together with innumerable woodcut illustrations in the text, and of course the six coloured maps of asia; china and the indo-chinese states; north america; south america; turkey in europe and greece; and africavery good condition with both boards firmly attached and no pages loose or missingare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiwith 200 illustrations after drawings by gustave dore, berard, lancelot, jules noel and other eminent artists, and six finely engraved full coloured mapsfold out plate showing jerusalem from the mount of olives; illustrated title page with vignette of the great eastern laying the atlantic cable; plain text title page; xii pages of preface, contents and illustrations; 820 pagesthis is the first series, so presumably more were planned or actually publishedcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablei have here for sale a book entitled all round the world: an illustrated record of voyages, travels and adventures, in all parts of the globe, edited by wf ainsworthquarter bound in brown buckram on maroon buckram hardboards, with five raised bands on the spine, and gilt letteringpublished in by william collins of london and glasgowour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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Swarovski crystal galapagos tortoise in excellent condition never been touched with out gloves on all comes in original box,bags and all signed read more
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Product category: booksauthors: john hickmancondition: goodbinding: paperbacklist price (msrp)
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These two wet suits were purchased for a one week trip to the galapagos and have been hardly worn since so are in excellent conditionlong sturdy back zip and velcro adjustable neckthe features are: titanium double lined neoprene which reflects heat back inboth the blue and red wet suits are the same size - men’s m/l but one was worn by and both are here modeled by a 6ft tall woman! we also have 2 pairs of gul slipper shoes to go with the wet suits (see separate product or ask for details)flatlock durable seam constructionsmooth-skin chest and back100% d-flex panels for durability£12 each or both for £20 read more
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He is also the greatest travel writer an astounding new memoir' sunday times'horizon is magnificent; a contemporary epic' robert macfarlane, author of underlandfrom the author of the classic arctic dreams comes a vivid recollection of his travels around the world and the encounters that have shaped an extraordinary lifeoxfam shop brentwood 'the greatest nature writer in the worldthroughout his journeys - to some of the hottest, coldest, and most desolate places on the globe - and via friendships with scientists, archaeologists, artists and local residents, lopez searches for meaning and purpose in a broken worldlopez also probes the long history of humanity's quests and explorations, including the prehistoric peoples who trekked across skraeling island in northern canada, the colonialists who plundered central africa, an enlightenment-era englishman who sailed the pacific, a native american emissary who found his way into isolationist japan, and today's ecotourists in the tropicshorizon is a revelatory, epic work that voices concern but also hope - a book that makes you see the world differently, and that is the crowning achievement by one of america's great voicessee oxfam website for delivery information read moretaking us nearly from pole to pole - from modern megacities to some of the earth's most remote regions - and across decades of lived experience, barry lopez gives us his most far-ranging yet personal work to date, in a book that describes his travels to six regions of the world: from western oregon to the high arctic; from the galápagos to the kenyan desert; from botany bay in australia to finally, unforgettably, the ice shelves of antarctica
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Nor does gibson forget the fascination they hold for science, as the galapagos finches did for darwinthe song of the bird had given him a taste of paradise, where an instant is as a hundred years of earthly timewas the same true of time in hell, stevenson asked himselfwith the passion of a birdwatcher and hoarder of words, gibson has spent fifteen years collecting the literary and artistic forms our affinity for birds has taken over the centuriesthey've been omens, allegories, disguises and guides; they've been worshipped, eaten, feared and lovedhe went into the garden to listen more closely, and when he returned, after what he thought were only a few minutes, he discovered that a century had gone by, that his fellow monks were dead and his ink had turned to dustbirds appear again and again in mythology and folk tales, and in literature by writers as diverse as ovid, thomas hardy, kafka, thoreau and tfrom the book: "stevenson remembered the story of a monk who had been distracted from his copy-work by the song of a birdsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhether as the christian dove, or quetzalcoatl the aztec plumed serpent or in plato s vision of the human soul growing wings and feathers, religion and philosophy have looked to birds as representatives of our better selves that part of us not bound to the earthbirds have ever been the symbols of our highest aspirationsas divine messengers, symbols of our yearning for the heavens, or avatars of glorious song and colour, they have stirred our imaginations from the moment we first looked into the skybirds figure charmingly and tellingly in the work of such nature writers as gilbert white, peter matthiessen, farley mowat and barry lopezgorgeously illustrated, woven from centuries of human response to the delights of the feathered tribes, the bedside book of birds is for anyone who is aware of birds, and for everyone who is intrigued by the artistic forms that humanity has created to represent its souloxfam bookshop knutsford in this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher graeme gibson has crafted an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birds
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From the tip of south america and the galapagos islands to australia and tahiti; darwin set out to study geology, but ended up finding the information that would lead to this theory of evolution by natural selectionoxfam shop scarborough a book which is in great condition for its age, the pages are slightly coloured but has no effect on the readingsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe cover has some creases and marks at the side but isn't very noticeablea naturalist's voyage around the world follows charles darwin over his almost five year journey around the world, in which he studied animals, plants geology, and much more
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All books are in very good clean conditionthis is a real bargainan impressive selection of children’s nonfiction books, around 20collection includes: record breakers, fantastic sea creatures, animal hunters, living history of britain, 3 dinosaur books, aztecs and incas, galapagos, nursery rhymes, 6 books from tell me about it series£5 cash on collection
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Cyca revoluta or sago palm is restricted to a few of the islands of the japanese archipelagoindoors it is best grown in a bright position or conservatorythe sago palm is also one of the few cycads worth trying outdoors in a milder gardenin appearance, the sago palm is the typical palm tree, with a tall rough trunk and a crown of glossy deep green leaves at the topmeasurements: 110cm (w) 55cm (h) nb: 90cm (h) in the pot collection only read morethis is a great plant and makes an interesting addition to nearly any room
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Hokkaido, the northern island of the japanese archipelago is far more rural and rugged than much of the country60th anniversary special marking code: ) chitose ajasdf 2nd aw 201st sq chitose awatching the northern limits of japanese air space isn't easy
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithree parts published in the collection "l'univers" (126 pgood overall condition, few foxingthe text is illustrated with 20 steel-engraved plates showing scenes, people, landscapes, buildings, views, etche arrived in paris in and spent his entire career at the ministry of the navy where he took care of the archives and the management of the coloniescatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablefrom to he was secretary general of the geographical society, of which he was 13 times vice-president and 6 times president) bound in one volume with red morocco leatheran early account, full of scarce anecdotes and picturesque details, dealing with the african islands: islets of the lybian coast, islands of the gulf of sidra, pelagian islands, azores archipelago, canary islands, cape verde, guinea, atlantic sporades, rodrigues islands, seychelles, comoros, zenges and islands of the arabian gulf, etc¶ marie-armand pascal de castera-macaya d'avezac () is a french archivist and geographerour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeone of the founders of the ethnographic society, he was interested in colonial geography and great discoveries, admitting the existence of atlantisplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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All texts in dutch and englishare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableto map the largely impenetrable forests, marshes and volcano-covered indian archipelago, a huge amount of cartographic pioneering work had to be doneour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethe results were collected in the great atlas of the dutch east indies, an eight kilo geographical reference work concerned with (colonial) dutch east indiesthe scientific-geographical reference book of the former dutch east indies for the period , containing 456 pages, which aims to present a complete cartographic image of india as it was in the last pre-war decadesplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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Very, very beautiful mini folds corners t15 archipelago of terror enew t26 borrowed from every nice damaged capsare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikinear new condition the photos are part of the description # specialcollectionservice read morecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablebob morane henri vernes william vance / forton dedication volume 7very, very beautiful t25 the yellow shadow bubbles eour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storedargaud edition(photos) t19 guerilla in tumbaga et6 the mystery of the re area very, very beautiful t7 the valley of the rattlesnakes ré dedication by henri vernesplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitenew t14 the prisoner of the yellow shadow e
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Kronos, the titans’ father just barged in the cyclades archipelagobatteries included?batteries required?number of puzzle pieces: 1educational objective(s): not available
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His second-closest, and then his closest friend (after the death of the poet philip larkin), was robert conquest, a leading sovietologist, whose book of , the great terror, was second only to solzhenitsyn's the gulag archipelago in undermining the ussrstalin said that the death of one person was tragic, the death of a million a mere 'statistic'it is largely political (while remaining personal)amis's remarkable memoir explores these connectionsit addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by intellectuals of the westwith general shelfwear and foxingthe author's father, kingsley amis, though later reactionary in tendency, was 'a comintern dogsbody' (as he would come to put it) from tokoba the dread, during whose course the author absorbs a particular, a familial death, is a rebuttal of stalin's aphorismsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein between the personal beginning and the personal ending, amis gives us perhaps the best one hundred pages ever written about stalin: koba the dread, iosif the terribleoxfam shop colne road koba the dread is the successor to martin amis's celebrated memoir, experience
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Send your vikings to the archipelago of lofoten, the orkney islands, or as far south as tierra del fuego and discover the possibilities that await you therewith two new exploration boards that take you to far-flung locales, you can unlock more options than ever before
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A famous paper of the moluccas archipelago in beautiful coeval colouring, printed on a beautiful sheet with wide margins latin text at verso read moreare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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* the karimun islands is a group of 26 small islands in the riau archipelago between singapore and sumatra, notorious at the time as a base for malay pirates, in: tijdschrift voor nederlandsch-indië(total) - bound in a contemporary half-leather binding with gilt title on the spine ( cmare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikinoman en zoonde karimon-eilanden*iets over het overplaatsen van officieren uit het nederlandsche in het indische legerde discipline aan boord bij de supletie-troepen voor de koloniënreview on the publication of the 7th and 8th edition of the plates ‘nederlandsch-oost-indische typen’ by van pers, in which the reviewer (van hoëvell?), referring to the lithograph ‘kinderen, snoeperijen verkopende’, says the following: ‘tot nadere opheldering van de laatste plaat hebben wij hier aan te teekeningen dat men, vooral zondag 's morgens ook slavinnen met fijn gebak aan de huizen rond ziet gaan; om die te verkoopen; ten profijte van de dames, aan welke zij toebehooren, en die daardoor, bij gebrek aan koeke-bakkers, te batavia en in de binnenlanden een belangrijk speldegeld verdienenwat verlangt het leger en wat doet men voor het leger? 9 pp* an incident in in which 15 indigenous chiefs (they are mentioned by name) at goegoer-sigandang (in sumatra) were put to death after being accused of treason to the dutch government, - de versnelde en geregelde gemeenschap met de nederlandsche bezittingen in oost- en west-indiëbeschrijving van het eiland soemba of sandelhoutsympathie voor het indische legervan hoëvell - zalt-bommel, johde "executie” te te goegoer-sigandang* 8 ppour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store17th volume, issues 1-6de voornaamste dames hielden zich vroeger met dezen tak van nijverheid onledig, die te lukratiever was, naar mate de rondventsters jeugdiger, schooner, en ligtzinniger warencondition: virtually as new* except this article (one of the earliest dedicated to the karimun islands) this complete half volume of the tni contains many more interesting articles, such as: - redenen van ontevredenheid bij het indische leger[iv], iv, 403 pplion - onderzoek naar de opleiding van ambtenaren voor de burgerlijke dienst in nederlandsch-indiëcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableherinneringen aan eener reis van soerabaja baar ambonpublished by drbijdrage tot de kennis der zuid-westereilanden, door eenen zendelingplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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S svalbard scrapbook svalbard (the whole archipelago whose largest island is spitsbergen) sits a long way north of norway above the arctic circle and there is still much research being undertaken therededication on frontispiece by author see oxfam website for delivery information read moresvalbard scrapbook by chris furse , hegg hill farm trustpaperback, corners creased but otherwise in used good conditionsome photo's annotated with egnicknames of participantsarctic expedition handbook and bwhilst you can't travel to spitsbergen again (yet) this book will help you imagine being there! arctic expedition handbook and bthe bses provided young people with the opportunity in the 's and '90's to spend six weeks undertaking research in svalbard, camping and living in tents - technically in summer but still a snowy and cold environmentthis book is based on the handbook written by the many specialist leaders and then a personal note is added by extracts from the young people's accounts and illustrations of their experiences
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicomplete with maps and a few engravingsmany have the opinion that wallace picked-up the idea in indonesia and did that before darwincatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablegently used though cleanour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethis book takes second place in the formulation of the evolution theory after ‘origin of species’ by charles darwinsomewhat loose in the binding, though intactan ex-libris in the frontplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethe sixth edition
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No deep inclusions from the tuamotu archipelago (french polynesia) the pearl is untreatedare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki35 g 18 kt yellow gold: hallmarked "au750" (see photos) new necklace, never worncatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available9 mm, bottom pearl 11contact us with any questionsour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storenecklace + integrated pendant in 18 kt yellow gold and tahiti pearls adjustable: 45 cm at the longest (adjustable down to choker length: see photos) delivered with invoicetahiti cultured pearl (saltwater) shape: round lustre quality: very beautiful lustre surface quality: over 70% of the surface is without any imperfectionsregistered shipping, securely packaged and protected6 mm total pendant size: 25 mm total pendant weight: 5diameter: top pearl 10please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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