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Ellingham, Mark; Florence, Peter & Rogerson, Barnaby (editors).
OxTravels: Meetings of Remarkable Travel Writers.
Publisher: Profile Books, London;
Date of Publication: 2011
Stock Code: 7657
LIMITED EDITION, Number 135 of 250 hand-numbered copies (of which only 200 were for sale). SIGNED by many of the contributors. Octavo, pp. 432. Numerous monochrome illustrations throughout. Navy blue cloth with white titles to spine and upper board; pictorial endpapers and gold silk place-marker; housed in plain red cloth-covered slipcase. Clean and bright, with no annotation or inscriptions. Near Fine in like slipcase. A choice selection of 50 pieces by travel writers, all based loosely around a meeting and all true, with an introduction by Michael Palin. This copy SIGNED by Ruth Padel, Colin Thubron, Dan Shukman, Tiffany Murray and John Gimlette among others. Authors include Paul Theroux, Dervla Murphy and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Originally published to benefit Oxfam and its work. £250.00