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Traitâe des principes et des ráegles de la peinture / par J.-E. Liotard, peinture, citoyen de Genáeve. Liotard, Jean-Etienne, Ã2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

Bligh : William Bligh in the South Seas /Anne Salmond. A biography of William Bligh (1754-1817). The author, an anthropologist, focuses on Bligh's three voyages in the South Seas and the impact of his encounters with the Pacific Islanders. Beginning with Bligh's voyage on the Resolution with Captain Cook (1776-80) during which Cook met his death, the author also examines Bligh's first breadfruit voyage on the Bounty (1787-89) during which the famous mutiny occured and resulted in Bligh's 3,618-mile voyage in an open boat to Timor, and then, finally, his second breadfruit voyage on HMS Providence (1791-93). Detailed notes and a bibliography are provided. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BLIGH

Observations sur l'influence des comáetes sur les phâenomáenes de l'atmospháere : adressâees áa M. Arago /par T. Forster. Forster, T.-(Thomas), 1836. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 521.3:094

Paradise in chains : the Bounty Mutiny and the founding of Australia /Diana Preston. "Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony. The story of the mutiny of the Bounty and William Bligh and his men's survival on the open ocean for 48 days and 3,618 miles has become the stuff of legend. But few realize that Bligh's escape across the seas was not the only open-boat journey in that era of British exploration and colonization. Indeed, 9 convicts from the Australian penal colony, led by Mary Bryant, also traveled 3,250 miles across the open ocean and some uncharted seas to land at the same port Bligh had reached only months before. In this meticulously researched dual narrative of survival, acclaimed historian Diana Preston provides the background and context to explain the thrilling open-boat voyages each party survived and the Pacific Island nations each encountered on their journey to safety. Through this deep-dive, readers come to understand the Pacific Islands as they were and as they were perceived, and how these seemingly utopian lands became a place where mutineers, convicts, and eventually the natives themselves, were chained"--Provided by publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.133"1789"

The Bounty and beyond : a textual and bibliographical investigation of William Bligh's journals of the first breadfruit expedition /John A. Fish. "Despite Bligh's Bounty journal being widely regarded as the most important of all of the primary documents related to the famous mutiny, the relationship between the official version of the journal (at The National Archives in London) and Bligh's private version (at the Mitchell Library in Sydney) has never been thoroughly investigated. That surprising omission has now been comprehensively rectified with the publication of The Bounty and beyond, a meticulous comparison of the two versions of the journal by John A. Fish. Numerous surprising and important differences are revealed, particularly those relating to food and drink, and Bligh's relationships with his officers and men. The comparison is preceded by a thorough historical and bibliographical investigation of Bligh's three first breadfruit expedition journals, that is, the journals of the Bounty, the Resource and the Vlydt. Also included is a comprehensive investigation and considered interpretation of Bligh's separate manuscript account of the mutiny and the voyage in the open boat. This large manuscript is the forerunner of Bligh's published Narrative of the Mutiny (1790). The significance of this manuscript, in Bligh's own hand and held by the Mitchell Library, has not, hitherto, been fully recognised. Based on extensive research (including several examinations of the primary sources) and a deep understanding of the relevant literature, this work will prove to be a landmark event in the history of Bligh/Bounty scholarship."--Provided by the publisher. 2023. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 996.18

The Bounty : the true story of the mutiny on the Bounty /Caroline Alexander. More than two centuries have passed since Master's Mate Fletcher Christian mutinied against Lieutenant Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty. Why the details of this obscure adventure at the end of the world remain vivid and enthralling is as intriguing as the truth behind the legend. In giving the Bounty mutiny its historical due, Caroline Alexander has chosen to frame her narrative by focusing on the court-martial of the ten mutineers who were captured in Tahiti and brought to justice in England. This fresh perspective revivifies the entire saga, and the salty, colorful language of the captured men themselves conjures the events of that April morning in 1789, when Christian's breakdown impelled every man on a fateful course: Bligh and his loyalists on the historic open boat voyage that revealed him to be one of history's great navigators; Christian on his restless exile; and the captured mutineers toward their day in court. As the book unfolds, each figure emerges as a full-blown character caught up in a drama that may well end on the gallows. And as Alexander shows, it was in a desperate fight to escape hanging that one of the accused defendants deliberately spun the mutiny into the myth we know today-of the tyrannical Lieutenant Bligh of the Bounty. Ultimately, Alexander concludes that the Bounty mutiny was sparked by that most unpredictable, combustible, and human of situations-the chemistry between strong personalities living in close quarters. Her account of the voyage, the trial, and the surprising fates of Bligh, Christian, and the mutineers is an epic of ambition, passion, pride, and duty at the dawn of the Romantic era. 2003. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 355.133"1789"

Nelson's letters to Lady Hamilton and related documents / edited by Marianne Czisnik. "This critical edition of Admiral Nelson's letters to Lady Hamilton is to bring together the important letters of Nelson to Lady Hamilton that have only been published in parts over the last 200 years. Only by bringing the letters of Nelson to Lady Hamilton together is it possible to assess their relationship and to present certain insights into Nelson's personality that are not revealed in his official correspondence. Thorough research into this side of Nelson's personality and into the nature of his notorious and unconventional relationship with Lady Hamilton has been hampered in the past by a desire not to look too closely at Nelson's personal morality. To a considerable extent their relationship was regarded as a challenge to traditional gender roles and it indeed did not conform to stereotypes that are usually attributed to men and women in a heterosexual relationship. Lady Hamilton was so obviously lacking in the subservience and passivity expected from women in that era that authors over the course of time started to exclude her in their accounts of the public sphere by reducing her to a private weakness of Nelson's, who could be successful at sea, where he was far away from the enthralling influence of a manipulating woman. The letters in this edition testify how Admiral Nelson's life at sea was not exclusively public nor was Lady Hamilton's life ashore solely private. It also shows how the two supposedly separate spheres of male and female lives were connected. A fresh approach and a thorough discussion of this important and neglected aspect not only of Nelson's life, but of gender history, demands this exact and scholarly edition of the primary material, which consists of about 400 letters that Nelson wrote to Lady Hamilton over the course of the last seven years of his life and about a dozen letters of her to him that have survived."-- [2020] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.22NRS

The Channel pilot Stephenson, John 1789 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(261.2)"17"

The old sailor's jolly boat : laden with tales, yarns, scraps, fragments, etc., etc. to please all hands ; pulled by wit, fun, humor, and pathos /and steered by M.H. Barker. Old Sailor, 1844. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 820-3

Arrimage des vaisseaux Missiessy Quies, Monsieur de 1789 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:656.61.073.2

The history and antiquities of the city of Bristol ... Barrett, William 1789 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:914.241

Scotland Ainslie, John 1789 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(411)"17"

Debating the slave trade : rhetoric of British national identity, 1759-1815 /Srividhya Swaminathan. Swaminathan, Srividhya. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326:808

Remarks on the astronomy of the Brahmins Playfair, John [1789] • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 52.09:094

Carte generale et topographique de la France Cassini de Thury, Cesar Francois 1789 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(44)"17"

Vie du Capitaine Cook Kippis, Andrew 1789 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:92Cook

Americae pars VIII, continens primo, descriptionem trium itinerum ... Francisci Draken ... Johanne Hauckens ... Secundo ... Thomae Candisch ... Tertio ... Gualtheri Ralegh ... Laurentii Keyms ... Bry, Theodor de 1599 • RARE-FOLIO • 4 copies available. 094:910.4"14/16"

A narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay, with an account of New South Wales ... Tench, Watkin 1789 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(944)"1787/1788"

Theoria planetae urani Oriani, Barnaba 1789 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092.47:094

Arrimage des vaisseaux ... Missiessy-Quies, Monsieur de 1789 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:656.61.073.2

Report of His Majesty's Commissioners appointed to inquire into the military preparations and other matters connected with the war in South Africa Great Britain. Parliament 1903 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 356.253(094.573)

A general collection of voyages and discoveries made by the Portuguese and by the Spaniards during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ... 1789 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4"14/15"

A general collection of voyages and discoveries made by the Portuguese and the Spaniards during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ... 1789 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:910.4"14/15"

Poesie varie di Clemente Filomarino : vol 1 Filomarino, Clemente 1789 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:850-1

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