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HANBURY-TENISON,ROBIN: : Worlds Within: Reflections in the Sand.[Author SIGNED copy.]

UK.The Long Rider's Guild Press,2005.

ISBN 1590481623.

UK,small 8vo paperback Original,SIGNED,1st edn.[Paperback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn, but p/back originals are published prior to any other format.] FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's black ink, handwritten dedication and signature: 'To Angela Happy Birthday from Robin Hanbury-Tenison' to the title page and no price removal to cover - absence of publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean and sharp-cornered,glossy,colour photographic illustrated front cover with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - and no reading creases to spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and generally clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,8vo p/back original,SIGNED, 1st edn,1-274pp [paginated] includes 40 individual day accounts/observations, profuse contemporary b/w photographs taken either by Robin or Louella Hanbury-Tenison,except those credited to others, interspersed throughout the text and the book,epigram headpieces to each day/night, an index,an alphabetical list of other titles from the same press/publisher,plus [unpaginated] SIGNED title page,author note with an epigram,a dedication, acknowledgements with 2 thumbnail b/w travel maps to verso and 6pp blanks at the rear of the book.One of the more uncommon titles particularly an author SIGNED example. In 1982 The Sunday Times described Robin Hanbury-Tenison as "the greatest explorer of the past twenty years." After all he had made the first land crossing of South America at its widest point,led twenty-four expeditions,lived with a host of exotic tribes and was awarded the Patron's Gold Medal by the Royal Geographical Society.Hanbury-Tenison is one of the few remaining British explorers who merits the name. Yet something sets him apart from those who often label themselves explorers.When he wasn't in a jungle,Robin was turning his hand to helping others.He helped found Survival International to support local tribal people worldwide,started the movement to save the world's rainforests and then created the Countryside Alliance. Few men have lived such a life.Fewer still have written such a book. At an age when most men would be content to rest on their laurels,restless Robin set off to cross the Sahara Desert on a camel.Accompanied by the legendary Tuareg tribesmen,the author wanted to journey not just into the silence of the great desert, but back to the roots of his own soul. 'World Within' is full of the adventure you would expect from such a man of action.However,it is also filled with the type of rare knowledge that was revealed to other desert travellers like Lawrence, Doughty and Thesiger. For Robin's journey across the lonely sands freed him to write like he never has before about his life,his loves, and his travels. The Sunday Times was right to describe Hanbury-Tenison as a great explorer.Join him now as he walks and rides across the vast Sahara and travels within. This book is part of the Hanbury-Tenison Collection,which includes 'Mulu: The Rain Forest','World's Apart','White Horses over France','Chinese Adventure','Fragile Eden' and 'Spanish Pilgrimage'. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in 2016 too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item, for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,small 8vo,paperback Original,SIGNED,1st edn.
'To Angela Happy Birthday from Robin Hanbury-Tenison'

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