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Baudin, Napoleon and the exploration of Australia / by Nicole Starbuck "This is the first in-depth study of the sojourn in Sydney made by Nicolas Baudin's scientific expedition to Australia in 1802. Starbuck focuses on the reconstruction of the voyage during the expedition's stay in colonial Sydney and how this sheds new light on our understanding of French society, politics and science in the era of Bonaparte. Aspects examined include Baudin's leadership skills, life on board the ship, colonial encounters with Aborigines and the nature of Anglo-French rivalry during the period. While previous histories have viewed Baudin's time in Sydney as little more than an opportunity for the French to recuperate after their journey, Starbuck presents it as a pivotal moment in French history, intellectual thought and imperialism."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(94)"1802"

The Shipwreck : a poem... with memoirs of the author Falconer, William, 1803 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Falconer

Alguns aspectos de Ameaca Turca sobre a India por meados do seculo XVI Albuquerque, Luâis de, 1977 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 528.9

The bombardier and pocket gunner / by Ralph Willett Adye. Adye, Ralph Willett, 1803. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.5:094

Cours de physique celeste ou sur l'explosion du systeme monde, donnees a l'ecole polytechnique en l'an dix Hassenfratz, J.H. 1803 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

The first report of the Commissioners of Naval Enquiry appointed by Act 43 Geo III : naval storekeepers at Jamaica Great Britain. Commissioners of Naval Enquiry 1803 • • 1 copy available. 359.523(42:729.2)"1803"

The art of making masts, yards, gaffs, booms, blocks, and oars, as practised in the Royal Navy and according to the most approved methods in the merchant service / Steel, David. 1816. Steel, David, 1816 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:629.12.014.21

The elements and practice of rigging and seamanship Steel, David, 1794 • RARE-FOLIO • 5 copies available. 094:629.12.014.2

The letters of George & Elizabeth Bass / Miriam Estensen. In August 1800, George Bass returned to England after five years in the British colony of New South Wales. Gifted, ambitious and impatient with the limitations of a naval career, he took leave from the navy to purchase a ship of his own and organise a commercial venture to Sydney. He also met Elizabeth Waterhouse, and fell very much in love. They were married on 8 October 1800. On 9 January 1801, George Bass sailed for Australia. For the next two years, and across two oceans, letters were the only link between George and Elizabeth Bass. His were brief, dashed across the page with an impatient hand, embedded with tantalising references to his life at sea or the colony of New South Wales and filled with love for his wife. Hers were many pages of small, neat script with news of her friends and family, her own thoughts and pursuits, and her yearning for a husband who would never return. The separate worlds in which George and Elizabeth lived also come to life in their letters: an England of domestic chatter and streets filled with soldiers awaiting a Napoleonic invasion; the hot humid coastal towns of Brazil, where Bass sought to sell his merchandise and took on board firewood, fresh water and tobacco; Sydney society and the disappointment of the ladies in Elizabeth not having come with her husband to join their small social circle; the exotic and languid Pacific islands where trade was difficult and ship labour hard. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BASS

Steel's tables of the dimensions of a ship of each class in the British Navy Steel, P 1803 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:629.12.071

A chronological history of the discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean... illustrated with charts Burney, James 1803-1817 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(265/266)"1492/1764"

An epistle to all that profess the light of Jesus Christ, within, to be their guide Crook, John 1796 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 252.4

The importance of Malta considered in the years 1796 and 1798 : also remarks which occurred during a journey from England to India, through Egypt, in the year 1779 Wood, Mark 1803 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.431.1(458.2)

An Account of the loss of His Majesty's sloop Swift, in Port Desire, on the coast of Patagonia, on the 13th March 1770 Gower, E 1803 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82Swift

The second report of the Commissioners of Naval Enquiry appointed by Act 43 Geo III : chest at Chatham Great Britain. Commissioners of Naval Enquiry 1803 • • 1 copy available. 355.642(42)"17/18"

Etude du ciel ou connaissance des phenomenes astronomiques, mise a la portee de tout le monde. : Ouvrage elementaire... Mollet, Johann 1803 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

Pillier naval : ou, description d'un monument national, projette a la gloire que s'est acquise La Grande Bretagne par se victoires navales durant la derniere guerre... Fages-Vaumale, Baron de 1803 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:725.94

Plans referred to in the Reports of the Select Committee upon the Improvement of the Port of London, 1796, 1799, 1800, 1801 Great Britain. Parliament. Select Committee upon the Improvement of the Port of London 1803 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 627.2(421)

A Narrative of the expedition to Egypt, under Sir Ralph Abercrombie; containing an exposition of the principles and conduct of Napoleone Buonaparte... Wilson, R T, Sir 1803 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.48"1801"(621)

The seaman's daily assistant : being an easy method of keeping a journal at sea ... with the tables calculated from the year 1800 ... Haselden, Thomas 1803 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:527

[Collection of diagrams showing the different parts of clock-making] Angelo, G. N. 1803 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 681.11:094

Black Spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture /Sudhir Hazareesingh. "The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culminated a dozen years later in the proclamation of the world's first independent black state. After the abolition of slavery in 1793, Toussaint Louverture, himself a former slave, became the leader of the colony's black population, the commander of its republican army and eventually its governor. During the course of his extraordinary life he confronted some of the dominant forces of his age - slavery, settler colonialism, imperialism and racial hierarchy. Treacherously seized by Napoleon's invading army in 1802, this charismatic figure ended his days, in Wordsworth's phrase, 'the most unhappy man of men', imprisoned in a fortress in France. Black Spartacus draws on a wealth of archival material, much of it overlooked by previous biographers, to follow every step of Louverture's singular journey, from his triumphs against French, Spanish and British troops to his skilful regional diplomacy, his Machiavellian dealings with successive French colonial administrators and his bold promulgation of an autonomous Constitution. Sudhir Hazareesingh shows that Louverture developed his unique vision and leadership not solely in response to imported Enlightenment ideals and revolutionary events in Europe and the Americas, but through a hybrid heritage of fraternal slave organisations, Caribbean mysticism and African political traditions. Above all, Hazareesingh retrieves Louverture's rousing voice and force of personality, making this the most engaging, as well as the most complete, biography to date." --Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 970.980

An essay on the method of determining the difference of longitude between places at land from the observed transits of the moon over their meridians, with a demonstration and example Lowe, Gavin 1803 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:528.282

God's wonders in the deep, recorded in several wonderful and amazing accounts of sailors, who have met with unexpected deliverances from death, when in the greatest dangers, to which is added the seaman's spiritual directory ... 1803 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:656.61.071.22

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