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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"

Acts of Gallantry : being a detailed account of each deed of bravery in saving life from drowning in all parts of the world for which the gold and silver medals and clasps of the Royal Humane Society have been awarded Young, Lambton 1996-2002 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 179.6

East meets West : original records of western traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats to 1852. 2007. • MICROFILM • 1 copy available. 347.71East India

Memoirs of hydrography including brief biographies of the principal officers who have served in the H.M. Naval Surveying Service between the years 1750 and 1885. compiled by L. S. Dawson. Dawson, L. S. 1885. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92:528.47

The life of a sea officer / Raigersfield, Jeffrey. 1929. Raigersfield, Jeffrey 1929 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.124(42)

The life, voyages, and sea battles, of that celebrated seaman, Commodore Paul Jones, still remembered by some of the old inhabitants now living in Wapping, he being originally in the coal-trade ... 1830 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:92Jones, John Paul

Tales of a tar with characteristic anecdotes Glascock, William Nugent 1830 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 820-311.3

The analytical theory of heat : by Joseph Fourier. Translated, with notes /by Alexander Freeman, M.A., fellow of St John's College, Cambridge Fourier, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph, 1878 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 536.1:094

Letters and papers of Charles, Lord Barham, Admiral of the Red squadron 1758-1813 Middleton, Charles 1907-1911 • BOOK • 4 copies available. 92Middleton

The making of the modern admiralty : British naval policy-making 1805-1927 /C.I. Hamilton. "This is an important new history of decision-making and policy-making in the British Admiralty from Trafalgar to the aftermath of Jutland. C. I. Hamilton explores the role of technological change, the global balance of power and, in particular, of finance and the First World War in shaping decision-making and organisational development within the Admiralty. He shows that decision-making was found not so much in the hands of the Board but at first largely in the hands of individuals, then groups or committees, and finally certain permanent bureaucracies. The latter bodies, such as the Naval Staff, were crucial to the development of policy-making as was the civil service Secretariat under the Permanent Secretary. By the 1920s the Admiralty had become not just a proper policy-making organisation, but for the first time a thoroughly civil-military one"-- 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.02(42)"18/19"

Francais et Anglais en Mediterranee de la Revolution francaise a l'independance de la Grece (1789-1830 Lyon, David, 1992 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 355.353(42)

Narrative of the naval operations in Ava, during the Burmese war, in the years 1824, 1825, and 1826 Marshall, John 1830 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:355.49"1824/1826"(591)

An account of the manuscript of an arc of the meridian between the parallels of 18degree3min and 24deg7min being a continuation of the grand meridian arc of India as detailed by the late lieut-col Lambton in the volumes of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta Everest, George : 1830 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.09:094

A new and universal dictionary of the marine Falconer, William, 1830 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 656.61English:800.866

The cabinet cyclopaedia : Geography : the history of maritime and inland discovery /onducted by the Rev. Dionysius Lardner ; assisted by eminent literary and scientific men. 1830. • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available.

The memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow : the life and times of a slave trade captain /[introduction by John Pinfold]. Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow (1765-1829), originally published in 1830 after his death. Crow was involved in the slave trade for seventeen years, making thirteen transatlantic voyages on slave-trading vessels, the last seven of these as master. Crow's Memoirs were written during his retirement but unlike other slave-trade captains he continued to justify his position and defend the trade after abolition. Crow remained convinced that the slave trade was a legitimate form of commerce and even that enslaved people were treated better and had a better life on the plantations than in Africa, both arguments being used by other supporters of the trade at the time. The Memoirs also provide an account of the conditions and practicalities of life at sea on board a slave-trading ship. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92CROW

Arctic pilot. sailing directions for west coast of Greenland, Davis Strait and Baffin Bay, Hudson Strait and Bay, Smith Sound and channels to Polar Sea, Lancaster and Melville Sounds, and passages among the Parley Islands, /compiled by Admiral J.P. Maclear. Great Britain. Hydrographic Department. 1905. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.83

A New voyage round the world in the years 1823-1826 Kotzebue, Otto von 1967 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 910.4(100)"1823/1826"

The psalter, or psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches; with the order for morning and evening prayer daily throughout the year Church of England 1833 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:264-1

Versuche èuber die Kraft mit welcher die Erde Kèorper von verschiedener Beschaffenheit anzieht / von F.W. Bessel. Bessel, F. W.-(Friedrich Wilhelm), 1832. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 514:094

Embroidered Georgian pictures / Margaret Swain. "Meticulously embroidered pictures that could be framed and displayed formed a part of a girl's education through the Goergian period in Britain (1714-1830). This book shows the variety of subjects and techniques and also glances at the work produced in American schools. As well as schoolgirls, outstanding women like Miss Morritt, Mrs Knowles and Miss Linwood produced large embroidered pictures to simulate paintings, greatly admired at the time, but now totally neglected. Pictorial needlework also adored upholstery, chair seats, screens and wallhangings. This book will be a useful handbook for collectors, museum curators and antique dealers, and an inspiration to the modern needlewoman."--Provided by the publisher. 1994. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 746.3"1714/1830"

Supplement to Captain Sir John Ross's narrative of a second voyage in the Victory, in search of a North-West Passage ... Braithwaite, John 1835 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.123Victory

A brief history of slavery / Jeremy Black. "Slavery is as old as the world itself and expert and professor Jeremy Black will show that its history is one that is central to our understanding of the modern world. This essential guide is a new global history of slavery from ancient times to the present day, includes fascinating new insights and interpretations including the role of slavery within Islam, the complicity of some Africans in the transatlantic trade, and will raise key questions about the persistence of slavery today and what our governments are doing about it."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326(100)

Was hat die Welt zu fèurchten von dem Kometen des Jahres 1834? : oder, èUber die sechste Erscheinung des Halleyschen Kometen und èuber Kometen im Allgemeinen : nebst einer einleitenden èUbersicht unsers Sonensystems /von Fr. J. Wartmann. Wartmann, Fr. J. 1830. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 523.64HALLEY

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