{"title":"Travel Writing","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"gates-h-l-the-devils-lady-1933-4375","title":"The Devil's Lady","description":"\u003cbr\u003eNew York: The Macaulay Company. 1933.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch4 class=\"vrb_heading\"\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_desc\"\u003eFirst edition. 8vo. 189x126mm. pp. [8], 9-283 [1bl]. Yellow cloth illustrated and lettered in red. Original illustrated dustjacket, chipped and creased in places and with the spine a little faded but overall in very good condition. Internally excellent. An \"exotic drama of passion and intrigue\" about Fanya \"a mandarin whose river junks carry contraband arms, a famous dealer in drugs, a Javanese dancer, a renegade aviator, a powder salesman posing as a card sharp, a Russian secret agent, adventurers and adventuresses of all sorts and nations - and Captain \"Flips\" Guerin, American attache, hopelessly sunk in his love for the inaccessible Fanya\". Blimey. Rare though.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_note\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_prov\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_biblio\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"GATES, H.L","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54815343870329,"sku":"4375","price":175.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/20241029_132547.jpg?v=1732898237"},{"product_id":"riddell-charlotte-elizabeth-l-a-mad-tour-1891-4593","title":"A Mad Tour.","description":"A Journey Undertaken in an insane moment through Central Europe on foot. \u003cbr\u003eLondon: Richard Bentley and Son. 1891.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch4 class=\"vrb_heading\"\u003ePresentation copy. Psycho-geography\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_desc\"\u003ePresentation copy. First edition. 8vo. 202x135mm. pp. [viii], 388. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt and blind to upper cover and spine and with some decoration in blind. Rubbing to edges, corners bumped and worn. Bumping and some slight nicks and chips to head and foot of spine which is a little sunned. Slightly foxed and toned with some creasing to the foot of the last ten leaves. Overall a very good copy. Rare in commerce: three copies were sold at auction between 1896 and 1907 but nothing has appeared in the auction records since then. Title page is inscribed: \"Mrs Lawrie with the Author's love. Nov. 6th 1891\". \u003cbr\u003eSomething of the spirit of this bizarre book can be gauged from the cover design. The title appears to have been scrawled in a moment of derangement and snaking out from the ends of the letters are jagged lines indicating the haphazard nature of the mad tour. This was no straight progress. \u003cbr\u003eIt is slightly unclear how much of this work is true. By 1891, Charlotte was nearly sixty and not in good health (she was diagnosed with cancer in 1892) but she was living with a younger man - the Arthur Hamilton Norway to whom A Mad Tour is dedicated. It seems that he persuaded her to embark on this journey but she was an unwilling partner describing herself as having been sold into \"slavery when I agreed to be led by Bobby (the name she gives Norway in the book), and to become the victim of his whims\". Among Charlotte Riddell's talents as a writer was, it is said, an ability to conjure up the atmosphere of places of which she had no first-hand knowledge. This talent may be on display here but in the end, whether she and Bobby\/Arthur did roam as widely as this book suggests is perhaps not the point. For what we have here is an early form of psycho-geography. The journey is as much through Riddell's mind as through Central Europe. It was a mind and a journey affected by the laudanum she was taking to ease the pain of her illness. The madness of the tour reflected her growing mental turmoil. \"A land of enchantments! a dream-country, where the real so constantly mingles with the unreal that one can scarcely tell where the waking ends and the dream begins!\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_note\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_prov\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_biblio\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"RIDDELL, Charlotte Elizabeth L","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55371991679353,"sku":"4593","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/20250610_152155.jpg?v=1750784556"},{"product_id":"stewart-james-lovedale-past-and-present-1887-5108","title":"Lovedale: Past and Present.","description":"A Register of two thousand names. A record written in black and white, but more in white than black. With a European Roll. \"It is nothing, if it is not truth\".\u003cbr\u003eLovedale: South Africa. Printed at the Mission Press.. 1887.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch4 class=\"vrb_heading\"\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_desc\"\u003eFirst edition. 210x135mm. pp. xxiii [ibl], [5]- 642. Register 3L is missing 3M has been printed in duplicate - clearly a printer's error. Light brown cloth, lettered in black. Edges and corner worn, spine and boards marked. Head and foot of spine bumped and joints rubbed. Hinges weak and slightly cracked and foxing to title page but overall a nice copy of a book that is scarce in commerce, none appearing in the auction records. \u003cbr\u003eLovedale Mission Station was founded in 1824 by the Glasgow Missionary Society as an evangelical church mission. In 1841, the Lovedale Missionary Institute was established as a school for native South Africans boys and girls. James Stewart who had explored the Zambezi with David Livingstone, joined Lovedale in 1867 and became the principal in 1870. The education offered was truly progressive and Stewart seems to have been an inspirational figure. He dispensed with Greek and Latin on the grounds that the time would be better spent teaching English. The school was mixed race and offered technical training alongside academic studies. They farmed their own land and operated a printing press and later Lovedale expanded to include a teacher training college and a hospital. The school closed in 1979 but not before it educated figures as important as Steve Biko and Thabo Mbeki. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLovedale: Past and Present\u003c\/em\u003e begins with a history of the Institute, a description of the site and the school's purpose, methods and results. The bulk of the book is a fascinating register of the pupils who had attended the school or were still there. There are over 2000 names, each with a potted biography. Some of these are only a few lines but others are much fuller. Reading these brief lives of people who were given a transformational opportunity, is moving and absorbing. There are sad stories here but uplifting ones too.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_note\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_prov\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_biblio\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"[STEWART, James]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57088586482041,"sku":"5108","price":600.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/5108_1.jpg?v=1777654944"},{"product_id":"digit-the-confessions-of-a-twentieth-century-hobo-1924-4936","title":"The Confessions of a Twentieth Century Hobo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLondon: Herbert Jenkins. 1924.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"vrb_heading\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_desc\"\u003eFirst edition. 185x120mm. pp. 192. Illustrated with amusing line drawings. Green cloth blocked in black to upper cover and spine. In the scarce original illustrated dustjacket. Some rubbing to head and foot of spine and fading to edges of upper cover. Dustjacket is chipped and a little torn in places along the top and bottom edge and upper cover has a price label reading \"Offered at 1\/-\". Internally very good with some slight toning. \u003cbr\u003eAn entertaining novel which describes how a young man from Surrey who works his passage across the Atlantic on a coal burner ship and then journeys through America from New York to San Francisco by hopping on and off trains and relying on the kindness of strangers. 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