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The novel newspaper : vol 1 Cooper, James Fenimore, 1839 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-3

The description and use of the universall quadrat ... Stirrup, Thomas 1655 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:520.259

The sea lions : or the lost sealers Cooper, James Fenimore, 1888 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 639.247.453

Tempest : the Royal Navy and the Age of Revolution /James Davey. "The French Revolutionary Wars catapulted Britain into a conflict against a new enemy: Republican France. Britain relied on the Royal Navy to protect its shores and empire, but as radical ideas about rights and liberty spread across the globe, it could not prevent the spirit of revolution from reaching its ships. In this insightful history, James Davey tells the story of Britain's Royal Navy across the turbulent 1790s. As resistance and rebellion swept through the fleets, the navy itself became a political battleground. This was a conflict fought for principles as well as power. Sailors organized riots, strikes, petitions, and mutinies to achieve their goals. These shocking events dominated public discussion, prompting cynical - and sometimes brutal - responses from the government and naval command."--Provided by the publisher. 2023 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.0094109033

War of 1812 / Carl Benn. "The war of 1812-15 raged across the American frontier, Britain's Canadian colonies, the Atlantic coast, the Gulf of Mexico, and the world's oceans. The conflict saw British, American, and Indigenous forces clash, and in the process, shape the future of North America. Respected historian Dr Carl Benn assesses the reasons why ythe United States took up arms, explores the fighting that followed, and considers the meaning of the war's outcomes. This new and thoroughly revised edition draws on scholarly advances that have occured since original publication in 2002, many of which have changed our perception of the conflict. Fully illustrated in colour with specially commissioned maps and over 50 new images, this book provides an accessible and concise overview of the War of 1812." -- 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.52

Lords of the sea : a history of the Barbary corsairs /Alan G. Jamieson. "Escalating piracy in the seas off Somalia has led commentators to designate the region the 'new Barbary'. But the seizures and killings made to date by Somali pirates cannot compare with the three centuries of terror unleashed on Europeans by corsairs in the Mediterranean and beyond. From 1500 to 1800, murderous Muslim pirates from North Africa's Barbary coast seized and enslaved more than a million Christians. Lords of the Sea gives us the full history of these pirates, first examining their dramatic impact as the violent seaborne vanguard of an expanding Ottoman empire in the early 1500s through to their break from Ottoman authority a century later. Alan Jamieson explores how the corsairs of Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli and other fortified coastal ports rose to the apogee of their powers, extending their activities from the Mediterranean into the Atlantic, raiding as far as the British Isles and Iceland. Rescuing captive Christians touched everyone in a Western state, from ambassadors obliged to negotiate to rural communities directed by Sunday sermons to contribute to the fund required to buy back their enslaved countrymen and women. While corsair activities declined in the 18th century, it was only a series of naval wars prosecuted into the early years of the 19th by various European states as well as a determined USA that finally ended the menace, culminating in the French conquest of Algiers in 1830. A welcome addition to nautical military history, Lords of the Sea is an engrossing tale of piracy, enslavement and the rise of the great powers."--Provided by the publisher 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1"14/18"

Mâemoire sur la dispersion de la lumiere / par M.A.L. Cauchy Cauchy, Augustin Louis,-Baron, 1836. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 535.1:094

The spy : a tale of the neutral ground Cooper, James Fenimore, 1838? • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-3

The pilot : a tale of the sea Cooper, James Fenimore, 1838 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-3

The last of the Mohicans : a narrative of 1757 Cooper, James Fenimore, 1839 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-3

The Arctic whaling journals of William Scoresby the younger. edited by C. Ian Jackson ; with an appendix by Fred M. Walker. "This is the third and final volume in the set of William Scoresby's journals. It contains the unpublished accounts of his three voyages 1817, 1818 and 1820. [...] In each of the journals, Scoresby wrote detailed descriptions of his landings: on Jan Mayen in 1817, western Spitsbergen in 1818, and the Langanes peninsula in north-east Iceland in 1820. The 1817 voyage, when Scoresby and others found the Greenland Sea relatively free of ice, involved him in the renewed British interest in arctic maritime exploration after the Napoleonic Wars. The Introduction to this volume contains a major reappraisal of Scoresby's role, especially in regard to his alleged mistreatment by John Barrow, Second Secretary of the Admiralty. The volume also contains an appendix by Fred M. Walker on the building of wooden whaleships such as the Baffin that were capable of routine ice navigation under sail as far north as 80ÀN, based on Scoresby's account, as Owners' Representative, at the beginning of the 1820 journal".--Provided by the publisher. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.22

Britain against Napoleon : the organisation of victory, 1793-1815 /by Roger Knight. "For more than twenty years after 1793, the French army was supreme in continental Europe. Only at sea was British power dominant, though even with this crucial advantage the British population lived under fear of a French invasion for much of those two decades. How was it that despite multiple changes of government and the assassination of a Prime Minister, Britain survived and eventually won a generation-long war against a regime which at its peak in 1807 commanded many times the resources and manpower? There have been innumerable books about the battles, armies and navies of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. This book looks beyond the familiar exploits (and bravery) of the army and navy to the politicians and civil servants, and examines how they made it possible to continue the war at all. It shows the degree to which, because of the magnitude and intensity of hostilities, the capacities of the whole British population were involved: industrialists, farmers, shipbuilders, cannon founders, gunsmiths and gunpowder manufacturers all had continually to increase quality and output as the demands of the war remorselessly grew. The intelligence war was also central: Knight shows that despite a poor beginning to both gathering and assessment, Whitehall's methods steadily improved.No participants were more important, he argues, than the bankers and international traders of the City of London, who played a critical role in financing the wars and without whom the armies of Britain's allies could not have taken the field. Knight demonstrates that despite these extraordinary efforts, between 1807 and 1812 Britain came very close to losing the war against Napoleon - not through invasion (though the danger until 1811 was very real) but through financial and political exhaustion. The Duke of Wellington famously said that the battle which finally defeated Napoleon was 'the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life': this book shows how true that was for the Napoleonic War as a whole."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1793/1815"(42:44)

Sea tales : comprising The Pilot, The Red Rover, The Waterwitch, The Sea Lions and The Two Admirals Cooper, James Fenimore, [189-] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-32

William Fairbairn: the experimental engineer : A study in mid 19th-century engineering /Richard Byrom "William Fairbairn (1789-1874) was one of the greatest of 19th-century engineers yet he is strangely overlooked. This is the first definitive biography for 140 years. It chronicles Fairbairn's role in the development, in the UK and abroad, of mills, waterwheels, steam engines, boilers, iron steamships, locomotives, iron bridges, cranes and elevators. It provides illustrations for many of today's current areas of debate, as it discusses the sources of Fairbairn's success, the extent of his influence and the reasons for the firm he founded failing within a year of his death. Fairbairn was the leading experimental research engineer of his time; and his Manchester works were an outstanding success, with his trainees producing five professors of engineering and two engineers knighted for their work. Fully researched and profusely illustrated, the book will appeal to all with an interest in engineering history: academics and non-academics alike. The author was introduced to William Fairbairn as an undergraduate in Manchester and went on to gain an MPhil and PhD in Fairbairn studies. He remains fascinated by this remarkable engineer."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92FAIRBAIRN

Mutiny in the Bounty! : and story of the Pitcairn Islanders /by Alfred McFarland. McFarland, Alfred [ca.1884] • BOOK • 2 copies available. 996.2"1790/1882"

My father : being records of the adventurous life of the late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby /by William Scoresby. Scoresby, William, 1851. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92SCORESBY

Magnetical investigations / by the Rev. William Scoresby, D.D. Scoresby, William, 1844-1852. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 537.6:094

Nelson's navy : the ships, men, and organisation, 1793-1815 /Brian Lavery ; foreword by Patrick O'Brian. Lavery, Brian. 1989. • FOLIO • 4 copies available. 355.49"1793/1815"(42:44)

An attempt to explain a difficulty in the theory of vision, depending on the different refrangibility of light Maskelyne, Nevil, 1789 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:535

The letters and journals of James Fenimore Cooper / edited by James Franklin Beard. Cooper, James Fenimore, 1960. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 820-3

An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean : with an original grammar and vocabulary of their language compiled and arranged from the extensive communications of Mr William Mariner, several years resident in those islands by John Martin, M.D. /edited by Nigel Statham and Ian C. Campbell. "John Martin (1789-1869) was a London-based, Edinburgh-educated physician interested in anthropological matters. This is his only book. He was inspired to write it by a chance encounter with its subject, William Mariner (1791-1853) who spent four years (1806-1810) in Tonga, in the South Pacific, one of the earliest European residents at a time before European influence disturbed or modified that society. Mariner, an extraordinarily mature and perceptive youth, became thoroughly imbued with Tongan language and culture as the adopted son of the most powerful chief in Tonga. Martin's intelligent engagement with Mariner resulted in a compelling narrative and a comprehensive account of Tongan society which became a classic. Often celebrated as an extraordinary real-life adventure story, it is a pioneering work of anthropology, and for 200 years it has been a primary and authoritative source for research into Tongan history and culture"--Provided by publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 305.899/482

The history of the navy of the United States of America Cooper, James Fenimore, 1839 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:355.49(73)

The water witch : or the skimmer of the seas. A tale Cooper, James Fenimore, 1830 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 820-31

Clarissimi viri Nicolai-Ludovici de La Caille vita : ad Cl. V. Joannem-Dominicum Maraldi /scriptore Gabriele Brotier. Brotier, Gabriel, 1763. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92LA CAILLE:094

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