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Captain Francis Crozier : Last man standing? /Michael Smith. "Francis Crozier was a major figure in the epic quests of nineteenth-century Polar exploration - navigating the North West Passage, reaching the North Pole and mapping Antarctica. His remarkable story embraces six daring voyages to the world?s most hostile regions and extraordinary feats of endurance, tragedy and failed romance. The groundbreaking expeditions with legendary explorers like Parry, Ross and Franklin lifted the veil from the frozen wastes and were crucial to the exploits of Amundsen, Scott and Shackleton. Crozier's personal tragedy was an unhappy love affair with Franklin's niece which drove him back to the ice one last time as second-in-command on Franklin's North West Passage expedition in 1845. All 129 men vanished on the ice. Crozier took command when the ships were crushed and the expedition was on the brink of disaster. For several years Crozier led a courageous battle trying to lead his men to safety. According to legend, Crozier was last to die - the last man standing. But Crozier never received recognition for his great feats and became another of exploration's Irish unsung heroes."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92CROZIER
An Universal dictionary of the marine : or a copious explanation of the technical terms and phrases employed in the construction, equipment, furniture, machinery, movements, and military operations of a ship, illustrated with variety of original designs of shipping, in different situations; together with separate views of their masts, sails, yards and rigging. To which is annexed, a translation of the French sea-terms and phrases, collected from the works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, etc. / By William Falconer, author of The Shipwreck. Falconer, William, 1780. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:629.12(038)
The Universal Navigator, and modern tourist : comprehending authentic and circumstantial narratives of the most interesting voyages and travels ... 1805 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Wilson
Aphroditographische fragmente, zur genauern kenntniss des planeten Venus : sammt beygefugter beschreibung des Lilienthalischen 27 fussigen telescops, mit practischen bemerkungen und beobachtungen uber die grosse der schopfung Schroter, Johann Hieronymus 1796 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094
Report from the Committee appointed to enquire into the best mode of shipping of the Port of London ... Great Britain. Parliament. Committee appointed to enquire into the best mode of providing sufficient accommodation for the increased trade and shipping of the Port of London 1796 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:342.537
An authentic narrative of a voyage performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, in His Majesty's Ships Resolution and Discovery, during the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780, in search of a North-West passage ... Ellis, W 1784 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(93/96)"1776/1780"
Prospectus and specimen of an history of marine architecture ... Charnock, John 1796 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 094:629.12
An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour Byron, John 1773 • RARE-FOLIO • 3 copies available. 094:910.4(93/96)"1764/1771"
Navies of the Napoleonic era / Otto von Pivka. Pivka, Otto von, 1980. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1792/1815"
Toussaint Louverture : a revolutionary life /Philippe Girard. "In Toussaint Louverture, Philippe Girard reveals the dramatic story of how Louverture transformed himself from lowly freedman to revolutionary hero. In 1791, the unassuming Louverture masterminded the only successful slave revolt in history. By 1801, he was general and governor of Saint-Domingue, and an international statesman who forged treaties with Britain, France, Spain, and the United States-empires that feared the effect his example would have on their slave regimes. Louveture's ascendency was short-lived, however. In 1802, he was exiled to France, dying soon after as one of the most famous men in the world, variously feared and celebrated as the "Black Napoleon." As Girard shows, in life Louverture was not an idealist, but an ambitious pragmatist. He strove not only for abolition and independence, but to build Saint-Domingue's economic might and elevate his own social standing. He helped free Saint-Domingue's slaves yet immediately restricted their rights in the interests of protecting the island's sugar production. He warded off French invasions but embraced the cultural model of the French gentility. In death, Louverture quickly passed into legend, his memory inspiring abolitionist, black nationalist, and anti-colonialist movements well into the 20th century. Deeply researched and bracingly original, Toussaint Louverture is the definitive biography of one of the most influential people of his era, or any other."--Provided by the publisher. 2016 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92LOUVERTURE
Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the Polar expeditions performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom ... in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28 / Beechey, F W. 1831. Beechey, Frederick William, 1831 • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 094:910.4(987)"1825/1828"
Journal du voyage de M. le Marquis de Courtanvaux : sur la frâegate l'Aurore, pour essayer par ordre de l'Acadâemie, plusieurs instrumens relatifs áa la longitude ; Mis en ordre par M. Pingrâe ... nommâe par l'Acadâemie pour coopâerer áa la vâerification desdits instrumens, de concert avec M. Messier. Courtanvaux, Franðcois-Câesar le Tellier,-marquis de, M. DCCLXVIII [1768]. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 910.4(261)"1768":094
A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean : undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company, for the discovery of copper mines, a North West Passage, etc, in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 and 1772 Hearne, Samuel 1796 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(712.2)"1769/1772"
La sphere, poeme en huit chants, : qui contient les elemens de la sphere celeste et terrestre, avec des principes d'astronomie physique; accompagne de notes, et suivi d'une notice des poemes Grecs, Latins et Francois qui traitent de quelque partie de l'astronomie Ricard, Dominique 1796 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094
A letter to the Court of Directors on the sale of commands and remuneration of the captains of the East India Company's shipping, containing a proposition for accomplishing the same "with the least possible injury to the parties concerned" / by J. Prinsep. Prinsep, John. 1796. • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 382
Suite du traitâe des montres áa longitudes : contenant la construction des montres verticales portatives, & celle des horloges horisontales pour servir dans les plus longues traversâees /par Ferdinand Berthoud. Berthoud, Ferdinand, 1796 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 528.282:094
Ceylon and the Dutch 1600-1800 A collection of articles by the author covering the early modern history of Sri Lanka, exploring themes such as political relations, administrative systems, social structures and religious influences. The Dutch established a foothold on the island in 1638 and went on to conquer the maritime districts setting up an administrative structure which existed until 1796 when the Island fell under British control during the Napoleonic Wars. During the period of Dutch control, the indigenous Kingdom of Kandy retreated into the interior and a number of the articles explore the relationship between the Dutch and this state. Others focus on the development of commercial policy, social changes impacting the traditional caste structure, and the consequences of Dutch religious policy. 1996 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 949.2(548.7)"16/18"
A narrative of the proceedings of His Majesty's fleet under the command of Earl Howe, from the second of May to the second of June 1794 Poggi, A C de 1796 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 094:355.49"1794.06.01"(441.1)
A Narrative of the circumstances which led to fixing the lights in Hasbro' Gatt, the light at the Goodwin, and the proposition for a light near the Sunk Sand Taylor, Henry 1796 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:627.715(426.1)
Terra Australis : Matthew Flinders' great adventures in the circumnavigation of Australia /edited and introduced by Tim Flannery. "Matthew Flinders is the man who gave Australia its name. A Voyage to Terra Australis, first published in two volumes in 1814, is his masterwork in which he vividly describes his voyages to map the great island continent between 1796 and 1803. Brilliantly edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, this version includes the journey Flinders made with George Bass to prove that Tasmania is an island, his herculean voyage in the Investigator circumnavigating Australia and his account of the wreck of the Porpoise. Flinders writes about his meetings with Aborigines, his encounters with French explorers and Macassan fishing fleets, and about the unforgettable wilderness of Australia."--Provided by the publisher. 2001. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(94)"1796/1803"
A voyage round the world in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV / by George Anson, Esq. (late Lord Anson), Commander in chief of a squadron of his Majesty's ships sent upon an expedition to the South Sea Anson, George Anson,-Baron, 1796 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(100)"1740/1744":094
George Charles Smith of Penzance : from Nelson sailor to mission pioneer /Roald Kverndal. "In the two previous books of his trilogy, Seamen's missions (1986) and The way of the sea (2008), the author researched how the seafarers' mission movement began and expanded. This third volume traces the captivating human drama surrounding the origins. It presents, for the first time ever, the embattled life of George Charles Smith---today recognized worldwide as the founder of the Maritime Mission Movement."--From back cover. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92SMITH, GEORGE
Life on the edge : Peter Danckwerts GC MBE FRS, brave, shy, brilliant /by Peter Varey. A biography of Peter Danckwerts (1916-1984). Educated at Winchester College and Oxford, Danckwerts volunteered in July 1940 for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, receiving training in bomb disposal. Following a period during which he was responsible for dealing with unexploded bombs and mines in the Thames Estuary, Danckwerts received a George Cross for his work defusing unexploded parachute bombs during the London Blitz. In 1942 he was posted to Sicily but was injured in a minefield and returned to England, joining the Combined Operations Headquarters. He received an MBE in December 1942 for his 'gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty'. After the end of the war, Danckwerts studied chemical engineering at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology, later working for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. He went on to become a professor of chemical engineering science at Imperial College London and then, from 1959, Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering at Cambridge. Danckwerts served as president of the Institution of Chemical Engineering in 1965 and 1966, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1969, and following his retirement in 1977 became executive editor of the journal Chemical Engineering Science. An appendix contains Danckwerts' case for recognising Sadi Carnot (1796-1832) as the first to postulate the First Law of Thermodynamics and formulate the Second. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92DANCKWERTS
The quiet revolution of Caroline Herschel : the lost heroine of astronomy /Emily Winterburn. "Caroline Herschel was a prolific writer and recorder of her private and academic life, through diaries, autobiographies for family members, notebooks and observation notes. Yet for reasons unknown she destroyed all of her notebooks and diaries from 1788-1797. As a result, we have almost no record of the decade in which she made her most influential mark on science when she discovered eight comets and became the first woman to have a paper read at the Royal Society. ... By piecing together - from letters, reminiscences and museum objects - a detailed account of the time, we get to see a new side to history's 'most admirable lady astronomer' and one of the greatest pioneering female scientists of all time."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92HERSCHEL