Extollager
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I might as well make available here some information that I've gathered. I will probably update it from time to time. Does anyone know if I have missed anything? Especially -- does anyone have comments on any of these?
Penguin Travel Library -- Complete List (?)
Here I will list books that appear to have belonged to the Penguin Travel Library of approximately 1983-late 1980s. I list books that I have owned or remember having seen seen that have the cover style (typeface, etc.) indicated here
with the series title displayed in a distinctive typeface on the bottom of the front cover. The ones with a year are the ones I own(ed). Entries marked with C are from a Penguin Books catalog list (I neglected to record its year), listed as being in the Penguin Travel Library. Entries marked with an L are titles that were listed at the back of various copies in my Series collection as being other titles in the series. Entries marked with O are ones that, so far as I remember, I haven’t seen except as shown online. In some cases, I have added subtitles from abebooks.com descriptions.
Ackerley, Hindoo Holiday (1983)
Andrews, The Flight of Ikaros (1985; I gave away this copy)
Asher, A Desert Dies L
Barr, The Coming of the Barbarians: A Story of Western Settlement in Japan, 1853-1870 C; also The Deer Cry Pavilion: A Story of Westerners in Japan, 1868-1905 C
Beagle, I See by My Outfit (1985) (journey across America by motor scooter by two New York Tolkien fans)
Belloc, The Path to Rome (1985)
Bibby, Looking for Dilmun (Persian Gulf) L
Bowen, A Time in Rome C
Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet L (my copy has Penguin Travel Library banner in uncharacteristic orange background)
Carrington, Granite Island L (about Corsica)
Cameron, Indian Summer L (about India)
Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World L (I have this book in the later Penguin Classics edition; it is about Antarctica)
Conover, Rolling Nowhere (1985) (hobo life, America)
Doughty, Passages from Arabia Deserta (1984)
Douglas, Siren Land L (concerns southern Italy)
Farson, Caucasian Journey C, O
Fleming, Brazilian Adventure (date of Travel Library printing not given)
Forster, The Hill of Devi L (concerns India)
Gide, Travels in the Congo (1986)
Glazebrook, Journey to Kars (I have this from a different publisher)
Grimble, A Pattern of Islands L (atolls in the central Pacific)
Gorer, Africa Dances (1983)
Hansen, Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo C
Hearn, Writings from Japan (1984)
Hoagland, African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan C
James, A Little Tour in France O
Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence and Italy (Twilight in Italy; Sea and Sardinia; Etruscan Places) (1985); also Mornings in Mexico L
Lee, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning L (about Spain)
Leigh Fermor, Mani (1984); Roumeli (1983); A Time of Gifts (1983); also Between the Woods and the Water C
Levi, The Light Garden of the Angel King: Journeys in Afghanistan L
Matthiessen, The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness C; also Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea C
Maxwell, A Reed Shaken by the Wind: Travels Among the Marsh Arabs of Iraq L
McCarthy, Stones of Florence and Venice Observed (1 vol) L
Macaulay, They Went to Portugal L
Miller, Colossus of Maroussi L
Monfreid, de, Hashish (1985)
Morris, Spain L
Morris, Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone C
Newby, The Big Red Train Ride C; also The Last Grain Race C; also Round Ireland in Low Gear C; also A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush C; also Slowly Down the Ganges C
Pope-Hennessy, Aspects of Provence C
Pye-Smith, The Other Nile C
Scott, Escapade (Brazil; fiction?) L
Somerville-Large, Grand Irish Tour L
Theroux, The Old Patagonian Express L
Thesiger, Arabian Sands (1984); also The Marsh Arabs
Wain, House of Exile L
Waugh, Ninety-Two Days L (I have this in a different edition)
Welch, Maiden Voyage (it is about Shanghai) L
Wilson, Reflections in a Writer’s Eye C
Wright, Cut Stones and Crossroads: A Journey in the Two Worlds of Peru C; also On Fiji Islands C
Penguin Travel Library -- Complete List (?)
Here I will list books that appear to have belonged to the Penguin Travel Library of approximately 1983-late 1980s. I list books that I have owned or remember having seen seen that have the cover style (typeface, etc.) indicated here
with the series title displayed in a distinctive typeface on the bottom of the front cover. The ones with a year are the ones I own(ed). Entries marked with C are from a Penguin Books catalog list (I neglected to record its year), listed as being in the Penguin Travel Library. Entries marked with an L are titles that were listed at the back of various copies in my Series collection as being other titles in the series. Entries marked with O are ones that, so far as I remember, I haven’t seen except as shown online. In some cases, I have added subtitles from abebooks.com descriptions.
Ackerley, Hindoo Holiday (1983)
Andrews, The Flight of Ikaros (1985; I gave away this copy)
Asher, A Desert Dies L
Barr, The Coming of the Barbarians: A Story of Western Settlement in Japan, 1853-1870 C; also The Deer Cry Pavilion: A Story of Westerners in Japan, 1868-1905 C
Beagle, I See by My Outfit (1985) (journey across America by motor scooter by two New York Tolkien fans)
Belloc, The Path to Rome (1985)
Bibby, Looking for Dilmun (Persian Gulf) L
Bowen, A Time in Rome C
Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet L (my copy has Penguin Travel Library banner in uncharacteristic orange background)
Carrington, Granite Island L (about Corsica)
Cameron, Indian Summer L (about India)
Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World L (I have this book in the later Penguin Classics edition; it is about Antarctica)
Conover, Rolling Nowhere (1985) (hobo life, America)
Doughty, Passages from Arabia Deserta (1984)
Douglas, Siren Land L (concerns southern Italy)
Farson, Caucasian Journey C, O
Fleming, Brazilian Adventure (date of Travel Library printing not given)
Forster, The Hill of Devi L (concerns India)
Gide, Travels in the Congo (1986)
Glazebrook, Journey to Kars (I have this from a different publisher)
Grimble, A Pattern of Islands L (atolls in the central Pacific)
Gorer, Africa Dances (1983)
Hansen, Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo C
Hearn, Writings from Japan (1984)
Hoagland, African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan C
James, A Little Tour in France O
Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence and Italy (Twilight in Italy; Sea and Sardinia; Etruscan Places) (1985); also Mornings in Mexico L
Lee, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning L (about Spain)
Leigh Fermor, Mani (1984); Roumeli (1983); A Time of Gifts (1983); also Between the Woods and the Water C
Levi, The Light Garden of the Angel King: Journeys in Afghanistan L
Matthiessen, The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness C; also Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea C
Maxwell, A Reed Shaken by the Wind: Travels Among the Marsh Arabs of Iraq L
McCarthy, Stones of Florence and Venice Observed (1 vol) L
Macaulay, They Went to Portugal L
Miller, Colossus of Maroussi L
Monfreid, de, Hashish (1985)
Morris, Spain L
Morris, Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone C
Newby, The Big Red Train Ride C; also The Last Grain Race C; also Round Ireland in Low Gear C; also A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush C; also Slowly Down the Ganges C
Pope-Hennessy, Aspects of Provence C
Pye-Smith, The Other Nile C
Scott, Escapade (Brazil; fiction?) L
Somerville-Large, Grand Irish Tour L
Theroux, The Old Patagonian Express L
Thesiger, Arabian Sands (1984); also The Marsh Arabs
Wain, House of Exile L
Waugh, Ninety-Two Days L (I have this in a different edition)
Welch, Maiden Voyage (it is about Shanghai) L
Wilson, Reflections in a Writer’s Eye C
Wright, Cut Stones and Crossroads: A Journey in the Two Worlds of Peru C; also On Fiji Islands C