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Incidents in the life of a slave girl : written by herself /Harriet A. Jacobs ; edited by L. Maria Child. With 'A true tale of slavery' / by John S. Jacobs ; edited and with an introduction by Jean Fagan Yellin "This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John S. Jacobs's short slave narrative, 'A True Tale of Slavery', published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet Jacobs's autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John Jacobs presents further historical information about family life so well described already by his sister. Once more, Jean Fagan Yellin, who discovered this long-lost document, supplies annotation and authentication. This is the standard edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, reissued here in the John Harvard Library and updated with a new bibliography."--Provided by the publisher. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.7/115092

Fatal passage : the true story of John Rae, the Arctic hero time forgot /Ken McGoogan. A biography of John Rae (1813-1893). Born in Orkney, Rae qualified as a surgeon working for the Hudson's Bay Company in Ontario, Canada. He developed a reputation for stamina and his use of snowshoes, learning to live off the land while travelling long distances, adopting and learning the ways of indigenous Arctic peoples. Rae went on to explore the Gulf of Boothia and made three voyages along the Arctic coastline from 1848?1851. In 1854, back in the Gulf of Boothia, he obtained credible information from local Inuit peoples about the fate of the Franklin Expedition which had disappeared in 1848. His report to the Admiralty included evidence that cannibalism had been a last resort for some of the survivors. Franklin's widow Lady Jane Franklin was outraged and recruited many important supporters, including Charles Dickens, to condemn Rae for daring to suggest Royal Navy sailors would have resorted to cannibalism. Rae's reputation was ruined and although he had discovered the final link in the North-West passage, he was shunned by the establishment at the time and his achievements never recognised. 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92RAE

A general history and collection of travels arranged in systematic order : forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery and commerce by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time /by Robert Kerr. Kerr, Robert, 1811. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4

The war of 1812 and the rise of the U.S. Navy / Mark Collins Jenkins and David A. Taylor ; foreword by Douglas Brinkley. Jenkins, Mark, 2012. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 355.49"1812/1815"(42:73)

Norden i Napoleonskrigene : krig pêa sj² og land /Knut Arstad (red.) [2014]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1793/1815"(42:44)

Inside the US Navy of 1812-1815 / William S. Dudley. "When the War of 1812 broke out, the newly formed and cash-strapped United States faced Great Britain, the world's foremost sea power, with a navy that had largely fallen into disrepair and neglect. In this riveting book, William S. Dudley presents the most complete history of the inner workings of the US Navy Department during the conflict, which lasted until 1815. What did it take, he asks, for the US Navy to build, fit-out, man, provision, and send fighting ships to sea for extended periods of time during the War of 1812? When the British blockade of 1813?14 severely constrained American sea trade, reducing the government's income and closing down access to American seaports, the navy was forced to innovate: to make improvements through reforms, to redeploy personnel, and to strengthen its industrial capacity. Highlighting matters of supply, construction, recruitment, discipline, medical care, shipbuilding, and innovation, Dudley helps readers understand the navy's successes and failures in the war and beyond. He also presents the logistics of the war in relation to fleet actions on the lakes and selected ship actions on the oceans, stresses the importance of administration in warfighting, and shows how reforms and innovations in those areas led to a stronger, more efficient navy."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.5/25

Mâecanique analytique / par J. L. Lagrange, de l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, du Bureau des Longitudes; Grand-Officier de la Legion - d'Honneur, etc., etc., etc. Lagrange, J. L.-(Joseph Louis), 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 531:094

Battle of the Shannon and Chesapeake 1813? • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 355.49"1813.06.01"

James Fitzjames : the mystery man of the Franklin Expedition /William Battersby. A biography of James Fitzjames, captain of HMS Erebus and third in command on Franklin's 1845 expedition to find the North West passage. The author established that Fitzjames was the illegitimate son of a diplomat, Sir James Gambier, and was brought up by the Reverend Robert Conningham. Fitzjames joined the Royal Navy in 1825, served on the Euphrates expedition from 1834-37, fought in the Egyptian-Ottoman War (1839-40) as a gunnery lieutenant and then in the First Opium War before joining the Franklin expedition on which he died in 1848. The author draws on Fitzjames's personal letters and journals as well as official naval records. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(987)"1849":92FITZJAMES

Missionary travels and researches in South Africa : including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the west coast, thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean /by David Livingstone. Livingstone, David, 1857. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(6)

The Holy Bible Bible. English. Authorised 1813 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:22

Regulations respecting lights Trinity House (London, England) 1813 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:355.51

Drosakk amenayn telut eanc Incicean, Lukas 1813 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:929.9.024.2

Dictionnaire de la marine francoise avec figures Romme, Charles 1813 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61French:800.866

The ill-fated mariner : or Richard the runaway Pilkington, Mary 1813 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-3

The clock makers' guide to practical clock work ... Harlow, Samuel 1813 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.11

David Livingstone and Africa : proceedings of a seminar held on the occasion of the centenary of the death of David Livingstone at the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh 4th and 5th May 1973. 1973. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(6)

Lucky Valley : Edward Long and the history of racial capitalism /Catherine Hall, University College London. "Written in 1774, Edward Long's History of Jamaica, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and unequal. Catherine Hall unpicks the contradictions in Long's thinking, exposing the insidious myths and stereotypes that have allowed reconfigured forms of racial difference and racial capitalism to live on in contemporary societies"-- 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/62097292

A Trip to Trollhattan : in a series of letters Polhem, C 1977 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 910.4(485)

Composition mathematique Ptolemy Claude 1813 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

Regulations respecting coopers etc, with a scheme of pay Great Britain. Orders in Council 1813 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:355.51

Cyclopaedia : or, a new universal dictionary of arts and sciences : section on chronometer Pearson, Rev 1813 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 681.113.92

De la tydologie : ou de la science des marees Sade, Louis de 1813 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:551.466

Dictionnaire de la marine francoise avec figures. Romme, Charles. 1813 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61French:800.866

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