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The Arctic whaling journals of William Scoresby the younger. [William Scoresby] ; edited by C. Ian Jackson ; with an appendix by George Huxtable. Scoresby, William, 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.22

Traite analytique des mouvemens apparens des corps celestes Du Sejour, Dionis 1786-1789 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 52.092:094

Beloved Emma : the life of Emma, Lady Hamilton "Eighteenth-century Emma Hamilton was a woman ahead of her time. Her rise to fame and fortune seemed unstoppable - until she began her famous, doomed love affair with Admiral Lord Nelson. Beloved Emma traces Emma Hamilton's journey from Liverpool to London and life as an artist's model, through glittering success in Naples as the wife of Sir William Hamilton, and that legendary romance with Nelson, to her painful descent from the heights of fame to an early death in Calais. Flora Fraser captures the energy, purpose and sexuality that drove this extraordinary woman through her tumultuous life."--Provided by the publisher. 2003 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92HAMILTON, Emma

The line upon a wind / Noel Mostert. "In February 1793 France declared war on Britain and Holland. The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars that raged for the next twenty-two years saw European powers manoeuvring for mercantile and political advantage in a complex and ever-changing web of alliances and coalitions. By 1815 the world was a different place."--Dust jacket. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1793/1815"(42:44)

History of the war in the Peninsula and in the south of France from the year 1807 to the year 1814 / W. F. P. Napier. Napier, W F P 1882. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 355.48"1807/1814"

Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, 1820-1831 : the founding of a colonial observatory : incorporating a biography of Fearon Fallows /by Brian Warner. This volume presents a comprehensive account of the origin, construction and use of the first major astronomical observatory in the southern hemisphere. Technical aspects, such as the instruments and their makers, the installation of the instruments and their initial problems, are described. In addition, the difficulties of founding a scientific institution in a remote colony are discussed in detail. The book includes a biography of the Cambridge-trained mathematician Fearon Fallows, the Observatory's first Director. The architecture, building methods and construction techniques are analyzed. There is also a wealth of detail on social aspects of life in Cape Town in the 1820s, including slavery and ecclesiastical matters. The book is unusual in the emphasis it gives to the human side of the story. It will be of interest to historians of science, astronomers, and historians, particularly of early nineteenth-century South Africa. 1995. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 520.1(687)

Chasing the Bounty : The Voyages of the Pandora and Matavy /edited by Donald A. Maxton. "Popular films about the Bounty mutiny only scratch the surface of its multilayered history. This rebellion on a British vessel in 1789 spawned a sequence of engrossing, sometimes tragic, events during the voyages of H.M.S. Pandora-dispatched to track down the mutineers and return them to England for court-martial-and Matavy, a schooner built by the mutineers in Tahiti. This is the first book to include eyewitness accounts from five men who endured these voyages. Presented in overlapping, chronological order, their unique points of view offer an engaging reading experience. It features the first book publication of a narrative by a member of Matavy's crew, who vividly describes a desperate struggle to survive with meager provisions among islands filled with hostile natives. A long, previously unpublished poem by an anonymous sailor on Pandora recounts the ship's sinking, the survivors' tortuous journey to the Dutch East Indies, and their return to England. The captain's official reports have been corrected from an older, inaccurate version, and his complete, unedited statement on the loss of Pandora appears for the first time in book form. The appendices summarize the Bounty and Pandora court-martials and the later history of each narrator."-Provided by publisher"-- 2020 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 996.18

The pilot Cooper, James Fenimore, 1831 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-3

Lives of distinguished American naval officers Cooper, James Fenimore, 1846 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:92:355.33(73)

The pathfinder : or the inland sea Cooper, James Fenimore, 1887 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-3

Mutiny of the Bounty and story of Pitcairn Island : 1790-1894 /by Rosalind Amelia Young. Young, Rosalind Amelia. 1924. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 996.2

India in the French imagination : peripheral voices, 1754-1815 /Kate Marsh. Marsh, Kate. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.5(540)"1754/1815"

Bligh, master mariner / Rob Mundle. A biography of William Bligh (1754-1817) focusing on his naval career and particularly the 3618-mile open boat voyage to Timor undertaken following the mutiny on the Bounty. A list of ships on which Bligh served is provided. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BLIGH

Mark's reef : or the crater : a tale of the Pacific Cooper, James Fenimore, ca1860 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-3

Homeward bound, or the chase : a tale of the sea Cooper, James Fenimore, 1888 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(26)

The Royal Navy : birth of a superpower 1793-1800 /Mark Jessop. "France declared war upon the British in 1793. The burden to conduct a long conflict proved heavy for that island nation. Poverty increased. Liberties and freedoms were sometimes taken away. Thousands of men had to leave their families, and disease, desertion and death meant that many never returned. At first the Royal Navy barely had enough warships to cope, but eight years later she had more than enough. By that time a threat of invasion towards Ireland prompted Parliament to enact a new nation, christened The United Kingdom of Great Britain. As such, 1800 became the final year of the old Kingdom of Great Britain. As she passed away, many of her men and women might have wondered as to what had made her navy a true Neptune. What had assisted the slow birth of a naval 'superpower'? This book seeks to answer that very question."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(42)"1793/1800"

The Hamilton letters : the Naples dispatches of Sir William Hamilton /edited by John A. Davis and Giovanni Capuano. Hamilton, William,-Sir, 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92HAMILTON

Pirates of Barbary / by Adrian Tinniswood. From the coast of Southern Europe to Morocco and the Ottoman states of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, Christian and Muslim seafarers met in bustling ports to swap religions, to battle and to trade goods and sales - raiding as far as Ireland and Iceland in search of their human currency. Studying the origins of these men, their culture and practices, Adrian Tinniswood expertly recreates the twilight world of the corsairs and uncovers a truly remarkable clash of civilisations. Drawing on a wealth of material, from furious royal proclamations to the private letters of pirates and their victims, as well as recent Islamic accounts, Pirates of Barbary provides a new perspectives of the corsairs and a fascinating insight into what it meant to sacrifice all you have for a life so violent, so uncertain and so alien that it sets you apart from the rest of mankind. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1"15/18"

Lionel Lincoln : or the leaguer of Boston Cooper, James Fenimore, 1838 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-3

Tables de Jupiter et de Saturne De Lambre,-M. 1789 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52-17:094

Naval air power Taylor, Michael, 1986. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.7

Afloat and ashore : a sea tale Cooper, James Fenimore, 1888? • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-3

The pioneers : or the sources of the Susquehanna, a descriptive tale Cooper, James Fenimore, 1839 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-3

Te-ahu-te-atua-o-no'a of the "Bounty" : Buch der Inhaltsverzeichnisse = list of tables of contents Thiessen, F-P [202-?] • FOLIO • 1 copy available.

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