Time-Life Books, Classics of Exploration Series – Set of 19 leather bound Volumes. Leather -bound with marbled end-papers, gold page embossing and gold edges and silk ribbon bookmark. Ex-libris plate and introductory leaflet to each volume. A stunning historical set of books to add to your library. Classics of Exploration series. A collection of high-quality, leather-bound facsimile reprints of historical travelogues and journals. Featuring brown, gilt-tooled covers, these volumes chronicle, in the original language, journeys to the North Pole, Africa, and Asia, often including period illustrations, maps, and introductions. Key Features and Details. The books are generally recognized by their brown, padded leather covers with gold/maroon tooling, gilt-edged pages (aeg), and high-quality paper. These are exact facsimiles of original, often late-19th or early-20th-century, travel narratives. Titles in the Series. First Footsteps in East Africa. How I Found Livingstone. Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa. In the Forbidden Land. By Henry Savage Landor. A Ride to Khiva. The Head-Hunters of Borneo. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. Scrambles Amongst the Alps. The series includes titles that focus on the “golden age” of exploration, highlighting the adventures and personal accounts of explorers navigating, mapping, and documenting unknown regions of the world. These books are considered valuable for their detailed, period-accurate content and decorative, leather-bound, and durable construction.