K2: One Woman's Quest for the Summit by Heidi Howkins

Hardcover. National Geographic, 2001. In near fine condition, light DJ rubbing. Climbing without the aid of porters or supplemental oxygen.

Title: K2: One Woman's Quest for the Summit

Author Name: Howkins, Heidi

Categories: Biographies - Adventurers,

Publisher: Washington, D.C., U.S.A., Natl Geographic Society: 2001

ISBN Number: 0792279964

ISBN Number 13: 9780792279969

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Near Fine

Type: Book

Seller ID: 013364

Keywords: MOUNTAINEERS MOUNTAINEERING HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS DESCRIPTION, 

Price: $10.00

The Find of a Lifetime: Sir Arthur Evans and the Discovery of Knossos by Sylvia L. Horwitz

Hardcover. Viking, 1981. In very good condition, DJ has piece missing at top of front cover, bottom back of spine has been bumped. His mother died at six, his young wife died in 1893, and he wrote on black bordered stationary for the rest of his life. While childless, he was a founder of the Boy Scouts.

Title: The Find of a Lifetime: Sir Arthur Evans and the Discovery of Knossos

Author Name: Horwitz, Sylvia L.

Categories: Biographies - Adventurers,

Publisher: Viking Press: 1981

ISBN Number: 0670135755

ISBN Number 13: 9780670135752

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Seller ID: 013410

Keywords: EVANS ARTHUR JOHN SIR 1857, 

Price: $10.00

Spotted Dick, S'il Vous Plait : An English Restaurant in France by Tom Higgins

Trade paperback. Ballentine, first, 1996. In very good condition. Lyon, France and an English restaurant.

Title: Spotted Dick, S'il Vous Plait : An English Restaurant in France

Author Name: Higgins, Tom

Categories: Biographies - Adventurers,

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Ballantine Books: 1996

ISBN Number: 0449910474

ISBN Number 13: 9780449910474

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Seller ID: 008898
Keywords: RESTAURANTS FRANCE TRAVEL EUROPE,
Price: $8.00
 

The Dark Romance of Dian Fossey by Harold Hayes

Hardcover. Simon & Schuster, first, 1990. In very good condition. The story of a woman who loved gorillas.

Title: The Dark Romance of Dian Fossey

Author Name: Hayes, Harold

Categories: Biographies - Adventurers,

Publisher: Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A., Simon & Schuster: 1990

ISBN Number: 0671633392

ISBN Number 13: 9780671633394

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Seller ID: 0803J384309

Keywords: WOMEN UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHY ANTHROPOLOGISTS, 

Price: $8.00

The Maryknoll Fathers by Glenn D Kittler

Hardcover, ex-library. The World Publishing Company, first edition, 1961. In good condition, usual library markings. The heroic story of fifty years in the mission fields afar.

Title: The Maryknoll Fathers

Author Name: Glenn D Kittler

Categories: Biographies - Adventurers,

Edition: First Edition

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Good

Type: Book

Seller ID: 007109
Price: $10.00

Climbing High : A Woman's Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy (Adventura Bks.) by Lene Gammelgaard

Hardcover. Seal Press, first, 1999. In very good condition, remainder mark. A woman's account of surviving the Everest tragedy.

Title: Climbing High : A Woman's Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy (Adventura Bks.)

Author Name: Gammelgaard, Lene

Categories: Biographies - Adventurers,

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Avalon New York: 1999

ISBN Number: 1580050239

ISBN Number 13: 9781580050234

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Seller ID: 006470

Keywords: EVEREST MOUNT CHINA NEPAL MOUNTAINEERING MOUNTAINEERS SPORTS RECREATION, 

Price: $10.00

The Flying Flynns by Bethine Flynn

Hardcover, ex-library. Seaview, 1979, stated first edition. In good+ condition. The remarkable adventures of an animal doctor in the wilderness.

Title: The Flying Flynns

Author Name: Flynn, Bethine

Categories: Biographies - Adventurers,

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Putnam Publishing Group, The: 1979

ISBN Number: 0872235386

ISBN Number 13: 9780872235380

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Good

Type: Book

Seller ID: 001965

Keywords: VETERINARIANS MEDICAL VETERINARY MEDICINE GENERAL, 

Price: $10.00

Fight the Wild Island : A Solo Walk Across Iceland By: Ted Edwards

Hardcover. Salem House, 1987. In near fine condition, rear of DJ has creases in plastic overlay. A solo walk across Iceland!

Title: Fight the Wild Island : A Solo Walk Across Iceland

Author Name: Edwards, Ted

Categories: Biographies - Adventurers,

Publisher: Scranton, PA, U.S.A., Salem House Publishers: 1987

ISBN Number: 0881622583

ISBN Number 13: 9780881622584

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Near Fine

Type: Book

Seller ID: 005877

Keywords: ICELAND DESCRIPTION TRAVEL EUROPE GREENLAND, 

Price: $15.00

Mr. Dimock Explores the Mysteries of the East : An American in India by Edward Cameron Dimock

Small hardcover. Algonquin Books, first, 1999. In very good+ condition, slight soiling of DJ and top of book pages. By Edward Cameron Dimock. Journeys in India. He went in 1955 and stayed for three years.

Title: Mr. Dimock Explores the Mysteries of the East : An American in India

Author Name: Dimock, Edward Cameron

Categories: Biographies - Adventurers,

Edition: First Edition

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 1999

ISBN Number: 1565121538

ISBN Number 13: 9781565121539

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Good

Type: Book

Seller ID: 008376
Keywords: INDIA DESCRIPTION TRAVEL ASIA
Price: $12.00
  

Upside-Down Pangborn : King of the Barnstormers by Carl M Cleveland

Hardcover, ex-library. Aviation Book Company, 1978. In very good condition, usual library markings. Exceptional pilot of the 1920s, half owner-chief pilot of the famous Gates Flying Circus, and the first to fly the Pacific non-stop.

Title: Upside-Down Pangborn : King of the Barnstormers

Author Name: Cleveland, Carl M.

Categories: Biographies - Adventurers,

Publisher: Seattle, WA, U.S.A., Aviation Book Company: 1978

ISBN Number: 0911721045

ISBN Number 13: 9780911721041

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Seller ID: 009671

Keywords: AIR PILOTS AERONAUTICS HISTORY TRANSPORTATION AVIATION PILOTING FLIGHT INSTRUCTION, 

Price: $20.00

 

Vet in the Vestry by Alexander Cameron

Hardcover, ex-library. St Martin's Press, first US edition, 1989. In very good condition, usual library markings. The adventures of a country vet who is also a country minister.

Title: Vet in the Vestry

Author Name: Cameron, Alexander

Categories: Biographies - Adventurers,

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., St. Martin's Press: 1989

ISBN Number: 0312029993

ISBN Number 13: 9780312029999

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Seller ID: 008813

Keywords: VETERINARIANS MEDICAL VETERINARY MEDICINE GENERAL, 

Price: $8.00

Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld by Theo Aronson

Hardcover. Second edition. Near fine, top of spine has been bumped lightly. Prince Eddy's upbringing, his university and military careers, his alleged "secret marriage", his links with the Jack the Ripper murders, his early death, and the central mystery of his life - his sexual orientation.

Title: Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld

Author Name: Aronson, Theo

Categories: Biographies - Adventurers,

Publisher: Lanham, Maryland, U.S.A., Barnes & Noble Imports: 1995

ISBN Number: 156619993X

ISBN Number 13: 9781566199933

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Near Fine

Type: Book

Seller ID: 018790

Keywords: PRINCE EDDY HOMOSEXUAL GAY, 

Price: $40.00

 

The Civil War: An Illustrated History By: Ward, Geoffrey C.;Burns, Ken;Burns, Ric

Coffeetable sized hardcover. Near fine condition. Eighth printing. A comprehensive look at the Civil War fully illustrated and explained.

Title: The Civil War: An Illustrated History

Author Name: Ward, Geoffrey C.;Burns, Ken;Burns, Ric

Categories: Civil War History,

Publisher: Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A., Alfred a Knopf Inc: 1991

ISBN Number: 0394562852

ISBN Number 13: 9780394562858

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Near Fine

Type: Book

Seller ID: 019018

Keywords: UNITED STATES HISTORY CIVIL WAR, 

Price: $40.00

 

The Liberty Legion by Walter Coffey

Trade paperback. Author House, 2004, first. In near fine condition. Can he thwart the legionnaires before they capture Washington? A fictional account of the civil war after Fort Sumter has fallen.

Title: The Liberty Legion

Author Name: Walter Coffey

Categories: Civil War History,

Publisher: 2004

ISBN Number: 1418433446

ISBN Number 13: 9781418433444

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Near Fine

Type: Book

Seller ID: 011188
Price: $10.00

Fiasco at Fredericksburg by Vorin E Whan, Jr

Hardcover, no DJ. Pennsylvania State University, 1961. In very good condition, spine and top of boards have been sunlightened. "Although the Unionists made many mistakes in the engagement, and the civilian population saw it only as a great blunder, the fighting forces of the Army of the Potomac kept their honor intact, despite the errors of General Ambrose E. Burnside."

Title: Fiasco at Fredericksburg

Author Name: Vorin E Whan, Jr

Categories: Civil War History,

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Seller ID: 009880

Keywords: CIVIL WAR, 

Price: $25.00

The Blue and The Gray by Thomas B Allen

Oversized hardcover. Near fine condition, DJ is very good, has closed tear on front bottom panel and light corner wear. Trace the drama of the battlefield and meet individuals of the 1860's - on both sides of the front lines.

Title: The Blue and The Gray

Author Name: Thomas B Allen

Illustrator: Sam Abell

Categories: Civil War History,

Publisher: Washington, D.C., U.S.A., National Geographic: 1992

ISBN Number: 0870448765

ISBN Number 13: 9780870448768

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Near Fine

Type: Book

Seller ID: 019004

Keywords: UNITED STATES HISTORY CIVIL WAR, 

Price: $25.00

For Country, Cause and Leader : The Civil War Journal of Charles B. Haydon by Stephen W. Sears (editor)

Hardcover, ex-library. Ticknor & Fields, 1993, first. In very good condition, usual library markings. The Civil War Journal of Charles B. Haydon. An eyewitness account of the Civil War by a Union soldier who fought from Bull Run to Knoxville.

Title: For Country, Cause and Leader : The Civil War Journal of Charles B. Haydon

Author Name: Sears, Stephen W. (editor)

Categories: Civil War History,

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Houghton Mifflin Company: 1993

ISBN Number: 0395663601

ISBN Number 13: 9780395663608

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Seller ID: 006057

Keywords: MICHIGAN HISTORY SOLDIERS UNITED STATES CIVIL WAR 1861 1865 PERSONAL NARRATIVES REGIMENTAL HISTORIES BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY MILITARY STATE LOCAL PERIOD 1850 1877, 

Price: $12.00

Hard Marching Every Day : The Civil War Letters of Private Wilbur Fisk, 1861-1865 (Modern War Studies) by Emil Rosenblatt (editor); Ruth Rosenblatt (editor)

Trade paperback. University of Kansas, second printing, 1992. In very good condition, name and address on half-title page. Originally published as Anti-Rebel. A Union soldier's life.

Title: Hard Marching Every Day : The Civil War Letters of Private Wilbur Fisk, 1861-1865 (Modern War Studies)

Author Name: Rosenblatt, Emil (editor); Rosenblatt, Ruth (editor)

Categories: Civil War History,

Publisher: Lawrence, KS, U.S.A., University Press of Kansas:

ISBN Number: 0700606815

ISBN Number 13: 9780700606818

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Seller ID: 009654

Keywords: UNITED STATES HISTORY CIVIL WAR 1861 1865 BIOGRAPHY PERIOD 1850 1877, 

Price: $12.00

 

Secret Missions of the Civil War by Philip Van Doren Stern

Hardcover, no DJ. Rand McNally & Co, 1959, first printing. In very good condition, pages yellowing, ink mark on bottom outside book pages, name on front fly leaf, spine sunlightened. 1861-1865, secret missions and codes and ciphers in the Civil War.

Title: Secret Missions of the Civil War

Author Name: Philip Van Doren Stern

Categories: Civil War History,

Edition: First Edition

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Seller ID: 009912
Price: $20.00

Bloody Roads South by Noah Andre Trudeau

Hardcover, bookclub edition. Little, Brown & Co, 1989. In very good condition, small bump on book pages at front and some DJ wear on ends of spine. The Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May-June 1864.

Title: Bloody Roads South

Author Name: Noah Andre Trudeau

Categories: Civil War History,

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Seller ID: 009642
Price: $18.00
 

Field of Battle: The Civil War Letters of Major Thomas J. Halsey By: K. M. Kostyal, Thomas J. Halsey

Hardcover. As new. From Sumter to Appomattox, he wrote letters to his wife and asked her to save them for his journal.

Title: Field of Battle: The Civil  War Letters of Major Thomas J. Halsey

Author Name: Kostyal, K. M.;Halsey, Thomas J.

Categories: Civil War History,

Publisher: Washington, D.C., U.S.A., Natl Geographic Society: 1996

ISBN Number: 079223412X

ISBN Number 13: 9780792234128

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: As New

Type: Book

Seller ID: 019005

Keywords: UNITED STATES HISTORY CIVIL WAR, 

Price: $25.00

American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles by Thomas Keneally

Hardcover, ex-library. Doubleday, 2002, first. In very good condition, usual library markings. A powerful mid-nineteenth-century politician and inveterate womanizer who got away with murder - literally!

Title: American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles

Author Name: Keneally, Thomas

Categories: Civil War History,

Edition: First Edition

Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Doubleday: 2002

ISBN Number: 0385501390

ISBN Number 13: 9780385501392

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Seller ID: 011738

Keywords: GENERALS BIOGRAPHY GETTYSBURG PA BATTLE, 

Price: $10.00

Crossing the Deadly Ground: United States Army Tactics, 1865-1899 by Perry D. Jamieson

Trade paperback. Near fine condition. Follow the development of the Army from the end of the Civil War days to the Spanish American War days.

Title: Crossing the Deadly Ground: United States Army Tactics, 1865-1899

Author Name: Jamieson, Perry D.

Categories: Civil War History,

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., Univ of Alabama Pr: 2004

ISBN Number: 0817350888

ISBN Number 13: 9780817350888

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Near Fine

Type: Book

Seller ID: 021094

Keywords: US ARMY HISTORY, CIVIL WAR TO SPANISH-AMERICAN, 

Price: $35.00

Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Georgia-Tennessee by James R Sullivan

Softcover, 60 pages. National Park Service Historical Handbook Series No. 25, c. 1956, reprint 1959. In very good condition. Various Civil War campaigns, includes photos, and tables of the soldiers that were present at each battle.

Title: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Georgia-Tennessee

Author Name: James R Sullivan

Categories: Civil War History,

Publisher: 1956

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Seller ID: 016522

Keywords: UNION, CONFEDERATE, CIVIL WAR, MILITARY HISTORY,

Life and Deeds of General Sherman Including the Story of His Great March to the Sea by Henry Davenport Northrop

Hardcover, no DJ. Globe Bible Publishing, circa 1891. Book is in fair condition, board edges are worn and bumped, 1/4" of cloth is missing at bottom of spine, small split at top of front outside joint, a 2" split at top of rear outside joint, edge gilt has chipped and faded, front hinge is completely separated - needs rebinding. Has mylar cover. Inside is very good, light page toning. His boyhood and early life, education at West Point, career in Florida, California, and Lousiana, daring deeds at Shiloh, Corinth, and Vicksburg, sublime achievements in the Georgia and Tennessee campaigns, and closing scenes of the great struggle, etc. The story of a great commander, hero and patriot.

Title: Life and Deeds of General Sherman Including the Story of His Great March to the Sea

Author Name: Henry Davenport Northrop

Categories: Civil War History,

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Fair

Type: Book

Seller ID: 016519
Price: $50.00
 

The Navies: The Photographic History of the Civil War by Francis Trevelyan Miller

Oversized hardback, no DJ. Castle Books, c. 1957. In very good condition. Contains many civil war photographs and stories.

Title: The Navies The Photographic History of the Civil War

Author Name: Francis Trevelyan Miller

Categories: Civil War History,

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Seller ID: 0303T951104

Keywords: CIVIL WAR; NAVIES, 

Price: $15.00

Sherman's Mississippi Campaign by Buckley Thomas Foster

Hardcover. Near fine condition. A test of a more destructive brand of warfare for the first time.

Title: Sherman's Mississippi Campaign

Author Name: Foster, Buckley Thomas

Categories: Civil War History,

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., Univ of Alabama Pr: 2006

ISBN Number: 0817315195

ISBN Number 13: 9780817315191

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Near Fine

Type: Book

Seller ID: 021097

Keywords: MISSISSIPPI, SHERMAN, MILITARY HISTORY, 

Price: $30.00

Civil War in Pictures by Fletcher Pratt

Hardcover, bookclub edition. Garden City Books, 1955. In very good condition, pages yellowing, with a fair DJ, some chipping and tearing. From the drawing boards of the newspaper artists who recorded the conflict.

Title: Civil War in Pictures

Author Name: Fletcher Pratt

Categories: Civil War History,

Publisher: 0

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Jacket Condition: Fair

Type: Book

Seller ID: 008088
Price: $10.00
 

Gettysburg by Earl Schenck Miers & Richard A Brown

Hardcover, no DJ. Rutger's University Press, 1948, third printing. In very good condition, some edgewear on boards, pages slightly browning. Includes illustrations and maps.

Title: Gettysburg

Author Name: Earl Schenck Miers & Richard A Brown

Categories: Civil War History,

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Seller ID: 009649
Price: $12.00

Cannoneers In Gray: The Field Artillery Of The Army Of Tennessee by Larry J. Daniel

Trade paperback. Near fine condition. Revised edition. Analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the artillery as well as the way it was used.

Title: Cannoneers In Gray: The Field Artillery Of The Army Of Tennessee

Author Name: Daniel, Larry J.

Categories: Civil War History,

Publisher: Tuscaloosa, Alabama, U.S.A., Fire Ant Books: 2005

ISBN Number: 081735168x

ISBN Number 13: 9780817351687

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Near Fine

Type: Book

Seller ID: 021093

Keywords: FIELD ARTILLERY, ARMY OF TENNESSEE,

Price: $25.00

Shiloh : The Battle That Changed the Civil War by Larry J. Daniel

Hardcover, bookclub edition. Simon & Schuster, first, 1997. In very good condition, inscription on front fly leaf. The Battle of Shiloh was fought in April 1862 on the banks of the Tennessee River in south Central Tennessee.

Title: Shiloh : The Battle That Changed the Civil War

Author Name: Daniel, Larry J.

Categories: Civil War History,

Edition: First Edition

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Simon & Schuster: 1997

ISBN Number: 0684803755

ISBN Number 13: 9780684803753

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Seller ID: 009882
Keywords: SHILOH BATTLE 1862 UNITED STATES HISTORY CIVIL WAR 1861 1865 CAMPAIGNS PERIOD 1850 1877
Price: $15.00