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For the full duration of the forty-show run, he was embedded with the band, travelling on the Starship, present at rehearsals and press encounters and the countless hours of waiting and movement that constitute the vast majority of any touring musician's experience. The photographs he made during those months — a substantial archive of which had never been published before this Genesis Publications volume — record the tour from the inside: not the stage-managed images of official photographers but the candid visual diary of a companion who was trusted enough to be unseen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe text of the book draws on Sykes's personal diary entries made during the tour, giving the photographs a narrative and contextual frame that promotional photography by definition cannot provide. 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The physical production — full leather binding, solander case with individual compartments for the facsimile passes and hotel keys, the \u003cem\u003eStarship\u003c\/em\u003e brochure reproduction — reflects the premium Genesis brings to everything it produces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Deluxe Edition, limited to only 350 copies, is the rarest and most finely produced of the several formats in which this title was issued.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eFine. Impeccably preserved inside solander case. All contents collated and complete, including all passes, keys, and brochure. Solander case shows some minor markings only.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: This item is large and heavy. 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Full red-brown crushed Morocco leather. Titling to cover and spine in gilt. Spine with four raised bands, margined in gilt. Publisher's stamp in gilt to lower spine compartment. Blue endpapers. 284, [ii] pp. Numerous plates throughout, many tipped-in, including a large folding double-page plate to the rear. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst Edition. Limited Deluxe Edition. Signed and numbered to the title page. One of 275 copies, this being number 184.\u003c\/strong\u003e Plates remain glossy, vivid, and fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSydney Long (1871–1955) occupies a singular position in the history of Australian art: he was the painter who took the bush, that most resolutely Australian of subjects, and refracted it through the lens of European Symbolism and Art Nouveau, producing in the process images unlike anything that had been seen before in this country. Where his contemporaries at the Heidelberg School — Roberts, Streeton, McCubbin — were engaged in rendering the Australian landscape with the clear-eyed directness of the plein-air tradition, Long was asking a different question: what would happen if Pan came to the eucalyptus forest? What would happen if the spirit presiding over the Australian bush were not a weather-beaten selector or a drover's wife but a nude figure playing pipes while children danced in the heat haze beneath the gum trees?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eHis answer was \u003cem\u003ePan\u003c\/em\u003e (1898), the painting that made his reputation and that remains his best-known work: a panoramic horizontal canvas in which a young woman plays pan-pipes in a luminous golden landscape of native grasses and silhouetted eucalypts, while a procession of distant nude figures moves across the middle ground in a sinuous, decorative line. 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He was, in fact, Captain Richard Francis Burton of the East India Company's Bombay Infantry, and the notes he carried were among the most closely observed records of the Islamic world ever compiled by a European. The penalty for discovery, in a city that barred non-Muslims on pain of death, was understood by all parties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBurton not only reached Medina and Mecca; he entered the Kaaba itself and participated in the full rites of the Hajj, becoming one of the very few non-Muslims ever to have done so and returned to record the experience. \u003cem\u003ePersonal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1855, made him famous almost immediately. It is travel writing of the highest order — precise, analytical, linguistically exuberant, and entirely without the condescension that disfigured most Victorian writing about the Islamic world. Burton's sympathy for the people and the faith he encountered was genuine, and the portrait he drew of the Hajj in the mid-nineteenth century — its physical hardships, its social complexity, the extraordinary range of humanity converging on the same holy city from across the Muslim world — remains one of the indispensable documents of Victorian exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBurton went on to attempt the sources of the Nile with John Hanning Speke, translate the unexpurgated \u003cem\u003eArabian Nights\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eKama Sutra\u003c\/em\u003e, and produce some forty volumes of travel, scholarship, and verse. He was knighted in 1886. His wife Isabel burned many of his unpublished manuscripts after his death in 1890, an act of devotion he had not requested and would not have welcomed. The \u003cem\u003ePilgrimage\u003c\/em\u003e survived intact, and it stands as the work that defined his legend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Easton Press Deluxe Limited Edition, produced in 2014 in a strictly limited run of just 400 numbered sets and sold out within fifteen months of announcement, presents the complete text in two folio volumes housed in an illustrated cloth slipcase. It is among the more tightly limited productions in the Easton Press catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Both volumes present as new, free from imperfections. Slipcase shows very minor signs of shelf wear only.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: This item is large and heavy. Within Australia it may require additional postage costs. For international shipping please contact us for a quote.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000573\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sir Richard Francis Burton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48926432755955,"sku":"1110002990984","price":1000.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1.Cover_f0b589eb-4105-4061-bec0-386954b11667.png?v=1778222533"},{"product_id":"the-worst-journey-in-the-world-easton-press-collectors-edition","title":"The Worst Journey in the World (Easton Press Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910–1913.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full black leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. Maps and illustrations by Dr. Edward A. Wilson and other members of the expedition throughout. One folding map. \u003cstrong\u003eCollector's Edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eIn the winter of 1911, three men walked away from the main hut of the British Antarctic Expedition into complete darkness and temperatures that fell to minus sixty degrees Celsius. They were dragging two sledges. Their destination was the Emperor penguin rookery at Cape Crozier, sixty-five miles away across the Ross Ice Shelf. The scientific purpose of the journey was to collect Emperor penguin eggs at the moment of incubation — it was then believed that the penguin embryo might reveal the evolutionary link between reptiles and birds — and since Emperor penguins breed during the Antarctic winter, there was no other time to attempt it. The three men were Edward Wilson, the expedition's chief scientist; Henry Robertson Bowers; and Apsley Cherry-Garrard, at twenty-four the youngest member of the Terra Nova expedition. They were gone for five weeks. When they returned, frostbitten, their sleeping bags frozen solid around them, Scott described what they had done as \"the hardest journey ever made.\" Cherry-Garrard later used that phrase as the starting point for his title — for it was this journey, not the polar journey, that he meant by the worst.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe polar journey followed in the summer of 1911–12, and Cherry-Garrard was not among the five men chosen for the final march to the Pole. He was part of the support party that turned back from the polar plateau. In February 1912 he was sent south with the dog teams to a pre-arranged position at One Ton Depot to await Scott's return. He waited. He could have pushed further south. He turned back on schedule, following orders he had been given. Eleven miles further south, in a tent that would not be found until November, Scott and his two surviving companions were dying. The question of whether Cherry-Garrard could have saved them by driving on would occupy him for the rest of his life, producing what his doctors identified as a nervous breakdown and what George Bernard Shaw — his neighbour in Hertfordshire, and the man who urged him to write the book — recognised as the specific weight of survivor's guilt carried by an extraordinarily sensitive and honest mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Worst Journey in the World\u003c\/em\u003e, first published in two volumes by Constable in 1922, is the product of that mind working at full stretch. It is not a straightforward narrative but a meditation — on the nature of scientific endeavour, on the bonds formed between men under extreme pressure, on the particular character of Antarctic light and cold and silence, and on the gap between what was decided and what might have been decided differently. The writing is of a quality unusual in exploration literature: precise, self-critical, and capable of genuine beauty. Cherry-Garrard's account is supported by diary excerpts and accounts from his companions, and each member of the expedition is brought fully to life. The book has been ranked by National Geographic Adventure as the greatest adventure book ever written.\u003cspan class=\"inline-flex\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Some very minor and sporadic markings to gilt edges; otherwise clean and bright throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000471\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Apsley Cherry-Garrard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49056143573235,"sku":"1110002989964","price":150.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_4e8b64e9-cf34-43a4-8a52-ffecd9ae5899.png?v=1778812211"},{"product_id":"the-survival-of-charles-darwin-a-biography-of-a-man-and-an-idea-easton-press-collectors-edition","title":"The Survival of Charles Darwin: A Biography of a Man and an Idea (Easton Press Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCLARK, Ronald W.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Survival of Charles Darwin: A Biography of a Man and an Idea.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1991.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full black leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 449 pp., with black and white photographic illustrations throughout. \u003cstrong\u003eCollector's Edition. Part of the \"Library of Great Lives\" series.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRonald W. Clark (1916–1987) was the most consistently accomplished British scientific biographer of his generation, the author of lives of Einstein, Freud, Bertrand Russell, and J. B. S. Haldane among others. \u003cem\u003eThe Survival of Charles Darwin\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1984 and one of his last major works, is unusual among Darwin biographies in the scope of its ambition: the subtitle — \u003cem\u003eA Biography of a Man and an Idea\u003c\/em\u003e — signals that Clark is not content to stop at Darwin's death in 1882. The book traces the entire subsequent history of Darwinism, from the initial controversy surrounding \u003cem\u003eOn the Origin of Species\u003c\/em\u003e through the eclipse of natural selection by Mendelian genetics in the early twentieth century, through the Modern Synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s in which genetics and natural selection were reconciled, and into the molecular biology of the mid-twentieth century that gave evolution its biochemical foundations. It is as much an intellectual history of biology as a conventional biography, and the two threads illuminate each other throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eCharles Darwin (1809–1882) published \u003cem\u003eOn the Origin of Species\u003c\/em\u003e in 1859 after more than twenty years of deliberate delay, aware of what the book would provoke. It provoked everything he had anticipated and more. The confrontation between Thomas Huxley and Bishop Wilberforce at Oxford in 1860 was only the most theatrical episode in a debate that continued long after Darwin himself had retreated to Down House and left the public argument to others. What Clark traces with particular care is the way in which the theory survived not only religious opposition but also periods of serious scientific doubt, when the absence of a credible mechanism for inheritance appeared to undermine its foundations, until the synthesis of Darwinian selection with Mendelian genetics produced the framework that has governed biology ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Presenting as new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000482\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ronald W. Clark","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49056313147635,"sku":"1110002990007","price":60.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_8ec9e24a-d348-45e0-81ca-04fb7b490443.png?v=1778815208"},{"product_id":"the-innocents-abroad-easton-press-collectors-edition","title":"The Innocents Abroad (Easton Press Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTWAIN, Mark.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1962.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full blue leather. Spine with raised bands, gilt-decorated. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. \u003cstrong\u003eCollector's Edition. Part of the Easton Press Masterpieces of American Literature Collection. An early and scarce Easton Press production.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Innocents Abroad\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 1869 and was the book that made Mark Twain's national reputation. It is an account of the voyage of the chartered steamship \u003cem\u003eQuaker City\u003c\/em\u003e through Europe and the Holy Land in 1867, in which Twain — then a thirty-one-year-old journalist from Missouri — found himself travelling with a group of American pilgrims who had come to encounter the great monuments of Old World civilisation in a spirit of reverence. Twain was constitutionally incapable of reverence, and the book is the record of his irreverence: a systematic deflation of the sentimental assumptions American tourists brought to Europe, delivered in a comic voice of such freshness and precision that it changed what American prose could do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe journey took the \u003cem\u003eQuaker City\u003c\/em\u003e to France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Palestine, and Egypt, and at each stop Twain submitted the famous monuments to the same scrutiny he would later apply to the institutions of his own country. The blue skies of the Mediterranean were often damp and grey; the celebrated antiquities were frequently disappointing at close quarters; the piety of the Holy Land was thoroughly entangled with petty commerce; and his fellow passengers, whom he catalogued with affectionate malice, were exactly as provincial as he was, though considerably less willing to admit it. The comedy is inseparable from a genuine argument about the relationship between expectation and experience, between the inherited reverence Americans felt for Europe and the democratic irreverence that was the deepest expression of their own culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe book sold over 100,000 copies in its first year and remained the best-selling of Twain's works in his lifetime. It established the mode that he would develop further in \u003cem\u003eRoughing It\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Tramp Abroad\u003c\/em\u003e, and ultimately \u003cem\u003eHuckleberry Finn\u003c\/em\u003e. The Easton Press edition of 1962, part of the early Masterpieces of American Literature Collection, predates by more than a decade the \"100 Greatest Books Ever Written\" Collector's Edition series for which Easton Press is better known, and is among the scarcer titles in the earlier programme.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine. \u003c\/strong\u003ePresenting as new. Bookplate unadhered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000479\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49056698401011,"sku":"1110002990045","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_8ab6a98b-06ac-459c-851e-2656d66e0b20.png?v=1778816996"},{"product_id":"helgas-diary-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"Helga's Diary (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWEISS, Helga\u003c\/strong\u003e (intro. Francine Prose; trans. Neil Bermel). \u003cem\u003eHelga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full burgundy leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 248pp. 16 colour paintings and 12 photographs throughout. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Limited to 800 numbered copies. Signed by the author on the special numbered limitation page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published New York: W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company, 2013. Translated from the Czech.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eHelga Weiss (b. 1929) was eleven years old when Germany occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939, and she began keeping a diary almost immediately. She wrote in school exercise books, in pencil, recording what she saw around her with the particular combination of a child's directness and a precociously sharp observational intelligence. In December 1941, she and her parents were deported to Terezín — the concentration camp established within the walls of an old Habsburg garrison town in Bohemia — where they would remain for three years. Before her subsequent deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, her uncle bricked the diary into a wall to preserve it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe diary was published in Czech in 1995 and in English translation for the first time in 2013. The \u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e described it as \"the most moving Holocaust diary published since Anne Frank.\" The comparison is apt in some respects and instructive in others: where Anne Frank wrote in hiding, with the knowledge that discovery meant death, Weiss wrote from within the camp itself, under conditions of deprivation and fear that the diary documents with an immediacy that is at times almost unbearable. The \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e observed that the young Helga \"responds to hardship with indignation and defiance, maintaining a sharp sense of observation while trying to make sense of the upheaval and suffering she sees.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Some very mild markings along fore-edge gilt; otherwise fine throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000498\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Helga Weiss","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49070292730099,"sku":"1110002990236","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_2113577b-fcb9-4e6c-9589-bdbc71ddcbf8.png?v=1779065865"},{"product_id":"wild-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"Wild (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTRAYED, Cheryl.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eWild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full burgundy leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Cover with gilt mountain scene. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 315 pp. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special dedication page tipped in by the publisher. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eIn the spring of 1995, Cheryl Strayed was twenty-six years old, recently divorced, intermittently using heroin, and four years on from the death of her mother from lung cancer at forty-five — a loss from which she had not recovered and did not know how to recover. On something between an impulse and a conviction she decided to hike the Pacific Crest Trail alone. She had never backpacked before. She bought a pack so large and heavy that she could barely lift it, filled it with equipment she had never used, and set out from the Mojave Desert with the intention of walking north for eleven hundred miles to the Oregon-Washington border. She called the pack \"Monster.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWild\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 2012, is the account of those ninety-four days. It is simultaneously a travel memoir, a grief memoir, and a memoir of self-reconstruction — the story of what happened to Strayed on the trail, and the story, told in counterpoint, of everything that had happened to her before she got there. Her mother's illness and death, her own marriage and its dissolution, the period of dissolution that followed — all of it is rendered with a directness and emotional precision that made the book an immediate bestseller and an Oprah's Book Club selection. It spent years on the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller list and has sold millions of copies worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Pacific Crest Trail runs from the Mexican border at Campo, California, to the Canadian border at Manning Park, British Columbia — 2,650 miles in total. Strayed hiked the central section, through the Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range, alone, often without other hikers for days at a time, through snow and desert and the particular silence of the high country. What the walk did to her, and what she came to understand through it, is not reducible to a formula; the book resists the consolation of the transformative journey narrative even as it tells one, and that resistance is what has given it its durability. The 2014 film adaptation directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, with Reese Witherspoon in the lead role and a screenplay by Nick Hornby, brought the story to a further audience while leaving the book entirely intact as the primary work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Presenting as new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000499\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cheryl Strayed","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49070301446387,"sku":"1110002990243","price":130.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_9ca18c8e-ef8c-4900-b4f6-c395aca3f865.png?v=1779066252"},{"product_id":"eat-pray-love-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"Eat, Pray, Love (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGILBERT, Elizabeth.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eEat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full blue leather. Spine with five raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design, lettering and fore-edges. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 334 pp. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published New York: Viking, 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eElizabeth Gilbert (b. 1969) published \u003cem\u003eEat, Pray, Love\u003c\/em\u003e in February 2006 and watched it change her life in ways she had not entirely anticipated. The memoir remained on the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller list for 187 weeks — more than three and a half years — sold over twelve million copies worldwide, was translated into more than thirty languages, and was adapted into a 2010 film starring Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem. It is one of the most commercially successful memoirs of the twenty-first century, and its influence on the genre of women's travel and self-discovery writing has been substantial enough to generate a category of imitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe circumstances from which the book arose were painful. At thirty-four, Gilbert was educated, published, married, and by most observable measures successful. She was also unhappy in her marriage, filed for divorce, entered a rebound relationship that ended badly, and found herself sitting on her bathroom floor at three in the morning in genuine despair. The memoir is the account of the year she spent in three countries chosen for reasons that carry both the logic of the intellectual and the slightly arbitrary quality of genuine crisis: Italy, for the pleasure of eating and the study of Italian; India, for an extended retreat at the ashram of a guru; and Indonesia, specifically Bali, for balance. The three sections are structured by the book's three-word title, which also maps onto the three aspects of experience — physical, spiritual, and relational — that Gilbert identifies as the territories of her inquiry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEat, Pray, Love\u003c\/em\u003e generated a cultural conversation that reached well beyond the readership of memoir: about what women are permitted to want, about the relationship between spiritual seeking and privilege, about whether a book so commercially successful can also be a serious work of introspection. These conversations continue, which is a different way of saying that the book continues to matter to its readers. Gilbert's subsequent books — \u003cem\u003eCommitted\u003c\/em\u003e (2010), \u003cem\u003eThe Signature of All Things\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), \u003cem\u003eBig Magic\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), and the novel \u003cem\u003eCity of Girls\u003c\/em\u003e (2019) — have confirmed her as one of the most widely read American writers of her generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Some very mild markings along gilt edges; otherwise fine throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. 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