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A pirate of exquisite mind: the life of William Dampier Preston, Diana 2004 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1

Dinghy and dayboat directory : a comprehensive illustrated guide to over 180 sailing dinghies, keelboats and multihulls van der Klugt, Diana (comp) 1997 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 797.14(036)

Shipwrecks around Cape Cod : a collection of photographs and data covering the period from the late 1800s to 1973 on Cape Cod Quinn, William P 1973 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 627.772(744)

Fouled anchors : the Constellation question answered Wegner, Diana M 1991 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 539.16.03:930.26

Wilful murder : the sinking of the Lusitania Preston, Diana 2002 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 656.61.085.3Lusitania

The hollow ships : trade and seafaring in the ancient world Topham-Meekings, Diana 1976 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 382(3)

South : the race to the pole McKernan, Luke 2000 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 910.4

The age of caricature : satirical prints in the reign of George III Donald, Diana 1996 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 7Gillray

A first rate tragedy : Captain Scott's Antarctic expeditions An examination of the Terra Nova British Antarctic Expedition (1910-1913) led by Robert Falcon Scott. Scott and his polar party, consisting of Edward Wilson, Henry 'Birdie' Bowers, Lawrence 'Titus' Oates and Edgar Evans, found that they had been beaten to the South Pole by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and the five men died on the return journey. The author considers the various reasons which may have contributed to the failure of the expedition by exploring the wider context of the times and the perceived need for heroes, the personalities of those involved, Scott's leadership and decision-making as well as the logistics and organisation of the expedition. 1997 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(99)"1901/1904"

The World at home (second book) ca1883 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 91

The three commanders Kingston, William Henry Giles, 1912 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-3

7th triennial meeting : Copenhagen :10-14 September 1984 :preprints /ICOM Committee for Conservation ICOM Committee for Conservation (7 : 1984 : Copenhagen) 1984. • FOLIO • 3 copies available. 061.3

A voyage round the world : a book for boys Kingston, William Henry Giles, 1891 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(100)

Flags of the world, past and present : their story and associations Gordon, W J 1928 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 929.9.024

Time and space : measuring instruments from the 15th to the 19th century Guye, Samuel 1971 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 520

The wretched of the earth / Frantz Fanon. "A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism or The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and it is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers. The Wretched of the Earth is a brilliant analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation. Bearing singular insight into the rage and frustration of colonized peoples, and the role of violence in effecting historical change, the book incisively attacks the twin perils of postindependence colonial politics: the disenfranchisement of the masses by the elites on the one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the other. Fanon's analysis, a veritable handbook of social reorganization for leaders of emerging nations, has been reflected all too clearly in the corruption and violence that has plagued present-day Africa. The Wretched of the Earth has had a major impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world."--Provided by the publisher. [2020]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 965

South : The race to the Pole /edited by Pieter Van der Merwe with Jeremy Michell Merwe, Pieter van der 2018 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(99)

River gunboats : An illustrated encylopaedia /Roger Branfill-Cook "The first recorded engagement by a steam-powered warship took place on a river, when in 1824 the Honourable East India Company?s gunboat Diana went into action on the Irrawaddy in Burma. In the 150 years that followed river gunboats played a significant part in over forty campaigns and individual actions, down to the Portuguese and American ?Brown Water? fighting in Africa and Vietnam respectively at the end of the twentieth century. They proved to be the decisive factor in operations against the Maoris, with Gordon?s Ever Victorious Army in China, during the river campaigns of the American Civil War, in the French conquest of Indochina, during Kitchener?s advance on Khartoum, and on the Rufiji and Tigris during the Great War. River gunboats fought for the Paris Commune, on the rivers of South America, against the Bolsheviks, and during the Second World War in the open waters of the Mediterranean, while armoured Soviet gunboats fought German Panzers, and a pair of ?Girls? attacked the Japanese on the banks of the Irrawaddy. This lavishly illustrated encyclopaedia describes vessels of every nation designed as river gunboats, plus those converted river steamers which took part in combat. Maps of the river systems where they operated are included, together with narratives of the principal actions involving river gunboats. Their story is brought up-to-date with data on current riverine combat vessels in service today."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.824

The Polar sale : Scott & Amundsen centenary :Friday 30 March 2012 at 2 pm, Knightsbridge, London. Bonhams (Firm : 2001) 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Black experience and the empire / Philip D. Morgan, editor and Sean Hawkins, editor. "This work explores the lives of people of sub-Saharan Africa and their descendants, how they were shaped by empire, and how they in turn influenced the empire in everything from material goods to cultural style. The black experience varied greatly across space and over time. Accordingly, thirteen substantive essays and a scene-setting introduction range from West Africa in the sixteenth century, through the history of the slave trade and slavery down to the 1830s, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century participation of blacks in the empire as workers, soldiers, members of colonial elites, intellectuals, athletes, and musicians. No people were more uprooted and dislocated; or traveled more within the empire; or created more of a trans-imperial culture. In the crucible of the British empire, blacks invented cultural mixes that were precursors to our modern selves - hybrid, fluid, ambiguous, and constantly in motion."--Provided by the publisher. 2004. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 941-44

Maritime women : global leadership /Momoko Kitada, Erin Williams, Lisa Loloma Froholdt, editors. "This exciting new WMU book series' volume features the first attempt to include detailed experiences of women in the maritime sector at a global level. It highlights the achievement of women in the maritime sector, in particular, women's leadership and service to the sustainable development of the maritime industry. The volume contains contemporary studies on maritime women and follows an inter-disciplinary approach. It offers an overview of women's integration into the maritime sector since the late 1980s as well as benchmarking its impact on various levels, such as policy, employment, education, leadership and sustainability. Even 20 years after the Beijing Declaration, gender-related challenges at work still remain in the maritime sector, for example, lack of gender policy, difficulty in work-life balance, access to education, and leadership opportunities. The book addresses a series of recommendations that may further help the integration of women into the maritime sector."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 387.5/082

Among others : Blackness at MoMA /Darby English and Charlotte Barat. "Among Others: Blackness at MoMA is the first substantial exploration of a major museum's uneven historical relationship with black artists, black audiences, and the broader subject of racial blackness. Over two hundred works from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, produced either by black artists or in response to race-related subjects, are reproduced in this volume, each accompanied by newly commissioned writing from a wide array of acclaimed authors. These plates are preceded by two historical essays: the first, by Charlotte Barat and Darby English, traces the history of MoMA's encounters with race since its founding, from an early commitment to African art, and solo exhibitions devoted to artists such as William Edmondson and Jacob Lawrence, in the 1930s and 1940s, through the Museum's activities during the period of Civil Rights Movement, to the controversial 'Primitivism' show of 1984 and beyond; the second, by Mabel O. Wilson, scrutinizes MoMA's record in collecting the work of black architects and designers. Among Others confronts two kinds of truth: one factual, the other moral. Equal parts historical investigation and truth telling, this book is a searching examination of MoMA's history in the cultural politics of race."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 704.03/96

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