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After Limbang : a Royal Marines anthology of experiences of the confrontation with Indonesia December 1962 to September 1966 /Brian Edwards. Edwards, Brian. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.425(42:594)"196"

Maritime casualties : causes and consequences /Capt. Tuuli Messer-Bookman ; foreword by Capt. Robert J. Meurn. "Since the Titanic disaster of 1912, the horrors of major maritime casualties have prompted international conventions and domestic legislation, but the link between events and outcomes (which are often separated by many years) is rarely understood by those working in the maritime industry. This book, the only comprehensive guide to this link, sets forth the major casualties of the last hundred years and explains resulting regulatory changes. Taking a macro-level view, it describes the trends and reactions across decades, and how, over time, focus has shifted from equipment failures to people and their behaviors as the primary cause of maritime casualties. Timely and thorough, it also explores the alarming increase in the criminalization of maritime accidents, especially the relatively recent reclassification of pollution incidents as "environmental crimes." This book offers broad insight to the history, laws, and conventions that regulate worldwide commercial maritime activity." 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.88/84

Making settler colonial space : perspectives on race, place and identity /edited by Tracey Banivanua-Mar and Penelope Edmonds. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.3/.4(931/97)(=62)

The man who ate his boots : the tragic history of the search for the Northwest Passage /Anthony Brandt. "Dozens of missions set out for the Arctic during the first half of the nineteenth century; all ended in failure and many in disaster, as men found themselves starving to death in the freezing wilderness, sometimes with nothing left to eat but their companions' remains. Anthony Brandt traces the complete history of this noble and foolhardy obsession, which originated during the sixteenth century, bringing vividly to life this record of courage and incompetence, privation and endurance, heroics and tragedy. Along the way he introduces us to an expansive cast of fascination characters: seamen and landlubbers, scientists and politicians, sceptics and tireless believers. The Man Who Ate His Boots is a rich and engaging work of narrative history - a multifaceted portrait of noble adventure and of imperialistic folly."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(987)"18"

Cruise ships / William Mayes. "The essential guide to the world's cruise ships, an indispensable reference for cruise agents, shipping & travel journalists, cruise company officials, intrepid travellers and ship aficionado. Fully revised and updated, this fifth edition features more than 700 ships from 286 operators, and is illustrated with over 300 previously unpublished colour photographs. As Cruise Ships progresses through new editions it becomes more comprehensive with the inclusion of numerous smaller vessels and more detail in the greatly expanded text. A few more very interesting ships with a passenger capacity of fewer than 30 have been included this time, but in general the entry criteria remains at that level. There can be no doubt that the coverage and detail once again surpasses by far the amount of information available from any other single source. There have been many changes within the fleets included in the third edition, but orders for new ships had started to trickle through again. Many active ships have been scrapped, partly due to the economic conditions and partly as a result of the SOLAS changes that came into effect in 2010. Many more classic ships have been laid up and some of these are unlikely to see further service. The text is updated to 15 October 2014, with a late news section covering significant events up to 31 October 2014."--Provided by the publisher 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123.3

Dreadnoughts : a photographic history /Roger D. Thomas and Brian Patterson. "The construction of British Dreadnought warships between 1905 and 1920 was an enormous financial and industrial undertaking which involved all the major ship builders in Great Britain and two Royal Naval Dockyards. The speed at which these warships could be built became a matter of national importance as Britain was inexorably drawn into an accelerating naval race with Germany. The massive Dreadnought construction programme had to be mediated through the craft skills and working practices of a wide range of dock and shipyard workers. The leviathans of the sea were built across the country at key ports, including Portsmouth and Devonport. This updated edition encompasses rare and previously unpublished photographs from across Britain, which provide a timely and important insight into this defining period in British naval history."--Provided by the publisher. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.821.3

The Pacific / Donald B. Freeman. "In this fascinating and exciting overview, Donald B. Freeman explores the role of the Pacific Ocean in human history. Covering over one third of the globe, the Pacific Ocean plays a vital role in the lives and fortunes of more than two billion people who live on its rim-lands and islands. It has played a crucial part in shaping the histories of the different Pacific cultures, towards which it has appeared in a variety of different guises. Exploring the ocean§s place in human history, this wide ranging book draws together the long and varied physical, economic, cultural and political history of the Pacific, from Prehistory through to the present day. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to show the changing viewpoints of those who explored, exploited and settled the Pacific, including the inhabitants of its Asian and American rim-lands. The book draws on new research in a variety of areas, such as early Pacific migrations, impacts of European colonization, the effects of climate change, and current economic and political developments. It provides a uniquely broad overview that will be of vital interest to students and to all those with an interest in World History."--Provided by the publisher 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 913(265/266)

Captain James Cook in Atlantic Canada : the adventurer & map maker's formative years /Jerry Lockett. A biography of Captain James Cook (1728-79), concentrating on Cook's experiences in Canada after joining the Royal Navy in 1755. In 1758, during the Seven Years War, Cook sailed to Halifax, Nova Scotia as master of the Pembroke and following the fall of Louisburg, Cook developed his surveying and cartography skills with his surveys of Gaspe Bay and harbour. This resulted in his first published chart. Transferring to the Northumberland after the fall of Quebec and based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Cook went on to survey and chart the Saint Lawrence River and the coast of Nova Scotia. Cook then spent five seasons in the 1760s surveying the Newfoundland coastline in the Grenville, producing the first large-scale and accurate maps of the island's coasts using precise triangulation to establish land outlines. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92COOK:910.4(71)

The principles of Arab navigation / edited by Anthony R. Constable and William Facey. "Throughout History, the Indian Ocean has been a zone of interaction between far-flung civilizations served by ports, and connected with the Mediterranean by the Gulf and Red Sea. The shows that were the vehicles of commercial and cultural exchange over this vast expanse of ocean ranged from small craft rarely venturing out of sight of land, to cargo vessels carrying navigators skilled in the art of deep sea sailing. These Arab, Persian and Indian seamen used the seasonal monsoon winds, and applied navigational techniques that relied on their ability to read the stars in the night sky - skills that had developed down the generations from time immemorial. This stellar navigation, based on measuring the altitude of the Pole Star to establish latitude and on the risings and settings of certain stars to find direction, grew into a complex art, belying the simplicity of the instruments used. Bringing together six scholars specializing in the maritime history and culture of the Arabs (Anthony R. Constable, William Facey, Yacoub Al-Hijji, Paul Lunde, Hassan Salih Shihab and Eric Staples), this book makes a new and vital contribution to the study of a nautical culture that has hitherto not received its due share of attention, and which is vital to an understanding of Indian Ocean history. Drawing on source material such as the guides by the renowned southern Arabian navigators Ahmad ibn Majid and Sulayman al-Mahri in the 15th and 16th centuries AD, as well as surviving logbooks of how captains in the early 20th, the volume covers the principal ideas, techniques, instruments and calculations used, deploying astronomy, geometry and mathematics to explain their methods. It includes an account of a practical attempt to apply these methods in 2010, on an adventurous voyage from Muscat to Singapore in a reconstructed early medieval dhow, and concludes with an analysis of sailing conditions in the Red Sea."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 527(267)"14/20"

For them the war is not over : the Royal Navy in Russia 1918-1920 /Michael Wilson. "As the guns fell silent of the Western Front on 11 November 1918, and thousands of men were looking forward to their demobilisation, civil war still raged in Russia. For the Allied forces in Russia, the war was not over and they faced an implacable foe, as Leon Trotsky energetically reorganised the rabble of revolutionaries into an effective fighting force - the Red Army. The White Russian Army, in support of the Tsar, was still fighting the Bolsheviks, especially in the north of Russia, and the Royal Navy sent a squadron of ships in support with British troops fighting against the Bolsheviks on land. The Russian towns of Murmansk and Archangel became British enclaves as our soldiers and sailors fought a valiant but doomed war against the Bolsheviks for, despite the intervention of the many Allied forces in various parts of Russia and regardless of the efforts of the various White armies, the Bolsheviks were victorious on all fronts when the civil war was over in 1922. In this captivating history, Michael Wilson tells the story of the Royal Navy's part in this little-known war."--Provided by the publisher. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1918/1920"(42:47)

The novel and the sea / Margaret Cohen. For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel. But what if novels were viewed in terms of the seas that unite these different lands? Examining works across two centuries, this work recounts the novel's rise, told from the perspective of the ship's deck and the allure of the oceans in the modern cultural imagination. The author moors the novel to overseas exploration and work at sea, framing its emergence as a transatlantic history, steeped in the adventures and risks of the maritime frontier. She explores how Robinson Crusoe competed with the best-selling nautical literature of the time by dramatizing remarkable conditions, from the wonders of unknown lands to storms, shipwrecks, and pirates. She considers James Fenimore Cooper's refashioning of the adventure novel in postcolonial America, and a change in literary poetics toward new frontiers and to the maritime labor and technology of the nineteenth century. She shows how Jules Verne reworked adventures at sea into science fiction; how Melville, Hugo, and Conrad navigated the foggy waters of language and thought; and how detective and spy fiction built on sea fiction's problem-solving devices. She also discusses the transformation of the ocean from a theater of skilled work to an environment of pristine nature and the sublime. This literary history challenges readers to rethink their land-locked assumptions about the novel. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-3(26)

Visions of empire : voyages, botany, and representations of nature /edited by David Philip Miller and Peter Hanns Reill. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(93/96)"17":58

An observer of observatories : the journal of Thomas Bugge's tour of Germany, Holland and England in 1777 /edited by Kurt Moller Pedersen and Peter de Clercq. "In 1777, the Danish astronomer Thomas Bugge (1740-1815) was appointed professor of mathematics and astronomy at the University of Copenhagen. He travelled through Germany to Holland and England to learn more about the state of astronomy and instrument-making in these countries. During his tour he kept a journal in which he noted what he saw, whom he met and which books and instruments he bought."--Back cover. 2010. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 520.1(43+492+42)"1777"

The merchantmen in action : evacuations and landings by merchant ships in the Second World War /Roy V. Martin. "During World War 2, the Merchant Navy's main task was to run the German blockade, bringing essential food, fuel and materials to a besieged nation. The civilian crews came from all parts of the Empire and beyond - more than one in six were killed. Even less is known about the part played by merchantmen in evacuations from countries that were overrun. They saved over 90,000 troops from Dunkirk and went on to rescue more than 200,000 troops and civilians from other parts of France. When Singapore fell, the Merchant Navy again helped many to escape. They moved men and materials for the landings of Madagascar, North Africa and the Mediterranean coast of Europe. A British government press release reported that 50,000 volunteer British merchant seamen manned over 1,000 ships for D-Day. They also manned salvage ships, rescue tugs and other specialist craft. Merchantmen in Action tells the story of these other achievements. Chapters include Singapore; the Norwegian campaign; Dunkirk; the Channel Islands; Greece and Crete; Sicily and Italy; the Normandy landings; the South of France, Gibraltar, etc, with detailed ship listing and human stories."--From publisher. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.545:656.61

Admiral Togo : Nelson of the East /Jonathan Clements. Togo Heihachiro (1848-1934) was born into a feudal Japan that had shut out foreign contact for 250 years. As a teenage samurai, he witnessed the destruction wrought upon his native land by British warships. As the legendary "Silent Admiral," he was at the forefront of innovations in warfare, pioneering the Japanese use of modern gunnery and wireless communication. Togo is best known as the "Nelson of the East" for his resounding victory over the tsar's navy in the Russo-Japanese War, but he also lived a remarkable life, studying at a British maritime college and witnessing the Sino-French War, the Hawaiian Revolution, and the Boxer Uprising. After his retirement, he was appointed to oversee the education of Emperor Hirohito. This new biography spans Japan's sudden, violent leap out of its self-imposed isolation and into the twentieth century. Delving beyond Togo's finest hour at the Battle of Tsushima, it portrays the life of a shy Japanese sailor in Victorian England; his reluctant celebrity in America; his role in forgotten wars over the short-lived Republics of Ezo and Formosa; and the accumulation of peacetime experience that forged a wartime hero. -- from Back Cover. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92TOGO

The Yorkshire Mary Rose : the ship General Carleton of Whitby /by Stephen Baines. "The ship 'General Carleton' was built in Whitby in 1777 and sank off the coast of Poland in 1785. When she was excavated in the 1990s a wide range of artefacts were recovered many of which, due to being coated in tar from the ship's cargo, were in a remarkable state of preservation - most notably a unique collection of sailors' clothing. It is because of the picture these objects give us about life, both aboard and ashore, for 18th-century mariners from Whitby and other coastal towns in the North-East, that 'General Carleton' has been called the 'Yorkshire Mary Rose'. This book is the story of 'General Carleton', of those who built her, owned her and sailed on her in an age of war, shipwreck, privateers and press-gangs; it is the tale of an ordinary merchant ship in extraordinary times"--Provided by the publisher. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3GENERAL CARLETON

Legado britâanico en Valparaâiso = British legacy in Valparaiso /Michelle Prain, editora = editor. Prain, Michelle 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 94(42:83)

The parallel worlds of the seafarer : ashore, afloat and abroad /ed. Richard Gorski, Britta Soderqvist. 2012. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 656.61(261.2)

The farewell glacier / Nick Drake. "The poems in The Farewell Glacier grew out of a journey to the High Arctic. In late 2010 Nick Drake sailed around Svalbad, an archipelago of islands 500 miles north of Norway, with people from Cape Farewell, the arts climate change organisation. It was the end of the Arctic summer. The sun took eight hours to set. When the sky briefly darkened, the Great Bear turned about their heads as it had for Pythias the Greek, the first European known to have explored this far north. Sailing as close as possible to the vast glaciers that dominate the islands, they saw polar bear prints on pieces of pack ice the size of trucks. And they tried to understand the effects of climate change on the ecosystem of this most crucial and magnificent part of the world. Nick Drake's new collection gathers together voices from across the Arctic past - explorers, whalers, mapmakers, scientists, financiers, the famous and the forgotten - as well as attempting to give voice to the confronting mysteries of the high Arctic: the animal spirits, the shape-shifters and the powers of ice and tundra. It looks into the future, to the year 2100, when this glorious winter Eden will have vanished forever."--Back cover. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-14:910.4(98)

Slaver captain / by John Newton, ed. with an introduction by Vincent McInerney. This title comprises two accounts written by John Newton (1725-1807): Thoughts on the African Slave Trade: A memoir of my infidel days as a slaving captain, published in 1788, and An Authentic Narrative of some remarkable particulars in the life of John Newton, published in 1764. Newton worked on the slave ships Brownlow (as mate) and the Duke of Argyle and African (as captain), sailing out of Liverpool, before retiring from the slave trade on the grounds of ill-health. He went on to become an adviser to William Wilberforce and an active campaigner in the abolition movement. Thoughts on the African Slave Trade was written some thirty years after his retirement from the slave trade as a contribution to the arguments for abolition of the slave trade as well as a public confession and it contains explicit descriptions of the conditions on slave ships and the brutality of the treatment meted out to enslaved people. Converting to Christianity, Newton was ordained into the Church of England ministry and is known for having written Amazing Grace. The Authentic Narrative consists of a series of letters written by Newton to support his entry into the Anglican ministry. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92NEWTON, JOHN

John Brett : Pre-Raphaelite landscape painter /Christiana Payne ; and Charles Brett. "Drawing on a wealth of unpublished sketchbooks, journals and writings, this essential guide to John Brett (1831-1902) investigates the painter who was seen as the leader of the Pre-Raphaelite landscape school. As well as the familiar early works, including 'The Val d'Aosta' and 'The Stonebreaker', it provides rich information on his later, less-known coastal and marine paintings. Brett's turbulent friendship with John Ruskin is discussed, as are his relations with his beloved sister Rosa, and his partner Mary, with whom he had seven children. His fervent interest in astronomy, his love of the sea, and his lifelong pursuit of wealth and recognition are all examined in this reassessment, which concludes with a catalogue raisonne of his works, prepared by his descendent Charles Brett"--Provided by the publisher. 2010. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 759.2

Sugar changed the world : a story of magic, space, slavery, freedom, and science /by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos. Sugar has left a bloody trail through human history. Cane--not cotton or tobacco--drove the bloody Atlantic slave trade and took the lives of countless Africans who toiled on vast sugar plantations under cruel overseers. And yet the very popularity of sugar gave abolitionists in England the one tool that could finally end the slave trade. This book traces the history of sugar from its origins in New Guinea around 7000 B.C. to its use in the 21st century to produce ethanol. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. J/664.1/ARO

Cook and the Pacific : with essays /by John Maynard, Susannah Helman and Martin Woods. Maynard, John, 2018 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 306.09

The emergence of Britain's global naval supremacy : the war of 1739-1748 /Richard Harding. "The British involvement in the war of 1739-1748 has been generally neglected. Standing between the great victories of Marlborough in the War of Spanish Succession (1701-1713) and the even greater victories of the Seven Years War (1756-1763), it has been dismissed as inconclusive and incompetently managed. For the first time this book brings together the political and operational conduct of the war to explore its contribution to a critical development in British history during the eighteenth century - the emergence of Britain as the paramount global naval power. The war posed a unique set of problems for British politicians, statesmen and servicemen. They had to overcome domestic and diplomatic crises, culminating in the rebellion of 1745 and the threat of French invasion. Yet, far from being incompetent, these people handled the crises and learned a great deal about the conduct of global warfare. The changes they made and decisions they took prepared Britain for the decisive Anglo-French clash of arms in the Seven Years War. In this misunderstood war lie some of the key factors that made Britain the greatest naval power for the next one hundred and fifty years."--Provided by the publisher. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1756/1763"

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