South America

Mountaineering in Patagonia – Alan Kearney

A very special book for those that love mountaineering or reading about mountain adventures and in particular Patagonia.

Published in 1993 by Cloudcap, Seattle, Washington USA which we think means effectively self-published by the very active Kearney. Fine condition.

Born in Washington State and trained in the North Cascades by climbing parents Kearney has climbed mot parts of the world worth climbing.

This book is both a history of who and when and the story behind the ascent of the numerous spectacular peaks of the regions, including his own accomplishments.

Tall octavo, 143 pages including useful glossary, reference appendices and a multitude of colour photographs of the most dramatic views, regional maps and one or tow climbing routes / strategies if you want to give them a go!

Patagonia – if you can’t make it this will fill in the gaps.

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$45.00

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An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-lore of the Guiana Indians by Walter Roth – First Edition 1915

Those that know about Walter Roth and his incredible work and publications relating to the Northern Queensland aboriginals may be surprised with this similarly important anthropological work on the native Indians of Guiana [Guyana].

Without raking too much up, Roth was more or less expelled for his Queensland work as, in his obsession for detail, he was deemed to overstep the mark more than once. However, he was quickly given a plum job in British Guiana.

Roth was employed in British Guiana as stipendiary magistrate, medical magistrate and district commissioner and was responsible for producing the Aboriginal Protection Order of 1910. Continuing his anthropological work, he made three extensive field expeditions which formed the basis of this book and various related papers. On his retirement he stayed there and became the curator of the Georgetown Museum and government archivist. He died there in 1933.

Walter Roth had a fascinating life and produced some special work that without him would have been lost to the World.

$240.00

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Diamond River [Venezuela] – Sadio Garavini Di Turno

First published in Italy – this the super English translation published by the Travel Book Club, part of Hamish Hamilton, London in 1963.

Octavo, 208 pages, dusty edges otherwise a very good copy.

An exploration, adventure book with a touch of the “Wild West” but set in the jungles and rivers of Venezuela.

The author one very tough cookie smelled diamonds in and about the remote river known as Liparu by the natives. Encounters with the Taurepan Tribe, Mundo and the beautiful Lolomai. Potent aphrodisiacs are offered and Turno describes the effect and provides the recipe.

Diamonds found and Turno devises his ambitious plan and sets up a mining camp with all the necessaries attracting wayward prospectors under his terms.

May and may not be the way to go about it!

Venezuela adventure with a bag of diamonds to prove it.

$40.00

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The Lure of The Amazon – Eduardo Barros Prado

First published in Spanish, this the first English edition published by the superb Adventurers Club, London in 1959.

Octavo, 175 pages, illustrated from expedition photographs. A little age – still a very good copy.

Prado already had a reputation as a guide to the Hamilton Rice expedition. In this ‘adventure’ he traces the Amazon tribe of women once regarded as mythical. Hunting jaguar seems like an everyday activity – but comes with its own obvious dangers. Then there are the cannibal Indians – best avoided. And, the girl with the red hair and the man who made “special coffee”.

The Amazon much more than an online mass market retailer of unwarranted unwanted goods.

$40.00

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The Voyage of Jacob Le Maire and William Schouten 1615-1616: Mirror of Australian Navigation. Originally translated by Alexander Dalrymple – A Beautiful Book

A special production published by Hordern House, Sydney 1999. Folio (30.5 x 20.2cm), quarter bound in quarter alum-tawed goat skin and quality marbled paper. Printed on Raleigh Oxford cream paper .. a fine copy as if new.

One of 950 copies thus, 96 page facsimile of the original Dutch printing followed by 65 page facsimile of the original Dalrymple translation. Illustrated with 5 black and white and 7 colour illustrations and 3 colour maps on double pages. Frontispiece double hemisphere world map as published in Amsterdam in 1618..

The objective of the voyage was further the lucrative trade in nutmeg and pepper by forging a new route to the East Indies via South America and the Pacific, influenced by the account of the voyage of de Quiros, the Portuguese navigator. In doing so it was hoped that the Great South Land would be encountered.

Forward by Justus Veeneklaas and Introductory Essay by Edward Duyker.

Rare Le maire – super production … quality book.

$140.00

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A Strange Career – The Life and Adventures of J. G. Jebb [South America and Mexico] – 1895

John Gladwyn Jebb led as an adventurous life as could be possible. This book was compiled by his widow and carries the introduction of adventure writer H Rider Haggard.

Jebb’s adventures began as a military man in India. Soon he was conducting privately funded explorations into Central and Southern America. Involved in numerous business dealings… helped to start White Line … was in involved in armaments. He moved to the US and the Wild West … bear hunting, gold mining and a few conflicts with local bandits and native Americans. Off to Mexico to make his fortune gold mining (made it and lost it) and much of the later part of the books is about his times in Mexico.

Published by Blackwood, Edinburgh in 1895 octavo, 271 pages, frontispiece of the great man, illustrated by John Wallace. Pictorial boards nice but a little rubbed. Overall, still a particularly good copy of a rather hard to find book.

Inspiration for Rider Haggard – John Jebb Adventurer

$50.00

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Mountaineering in Patagonia – Alan Kearney

An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-lore of the Guiana Indians by Walter Roth – First Edition 1915

Diamond River [Venezuela] – Sadio Garavini Di Turno

The Lure of The Amazon – Eduardo Barros Prado

The Voyage of Jacob Le Maire and William Schouten 1615-1616: Mirror of Australian Navigation. Originally translated by Alexander Dalrymple – A Beautiful Book

A Strange Career – The Life and Adventures of J. G. Jebb [South America and Mexico] – 1895

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