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Alfred King Lewis 1818-1860 : barge builder and shipwright, Royal Navy "Five years after Hong Kong became a British Protectorate, a young Carpenter's Mate, Alfred King Lewis became embroiled in the "Canton River Operations" in April 1847. The event was commemorated in a series of 11 hand-coloured lithographs which show the Bay of Victoria at Hong Kong, the British and Foreign Factories in the City of Canton (Guangzhou) China, sampans and junks as well as the Royal Navy paddle ships Vulture, Pluto, Espiegie, Corsair and Lorcha. These 11 prints have been reproduced for the first time in this book. Although written for family history, the book takes a first hand look at the Royal Navy through examining the activities of Ships' Carpenters in the 1840's. It also provides a social history of the London docklands area during the mid-1800's."--Provided by the publisher. 1997 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.223(42)

The Blue Funnel Line : a photographic history /Ian Collard. A shipping company history of The Blue Funnel Line formed by Alfred Holt, with details of take-overs of companies such as the China Mutual Steam Company, the Indra Line, Knight Line, the Glen Line and Elder Dempster Line and the change of company name to Ocean Transport and Trading in 1972. Also included is a fleet list in chronological order showing a brief history of each vessel. There are black and white photographs of many of the ships and crew members. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.792BLUE FUNNEL

Asia y el Museo Naval / Miniterio de Defensa Museo Naval (Spain) 2018 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 069(26:464:5)

The colourful world of the VOC / edited by Leo Akveld and Els M. Jacobs 2002 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 347.71Dutch East India

Maritime Taiwan : historical encounters with the East and the West /Shih-shan Henry Tsai. Tsai, Shih-shan Henry 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 952.91

Sir Martin Frobisher : seaman, soldier, explorer /Taliesin Trow. A biography of Elizabethan mariner Martin Frobisher. Knighted for his services against the Spanish Armada, Frobisher was the first Englishman to seek a Northwest passage to China, commanding three voyages into Canada and Greenland. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92FROBISHER

Too far east? : my Gray ancestors make a 300-year round trip across 5 continents steered by life-changing world events. "The book follows the author's personal journey of discovery, as he researches the last 7 generations of his Gray family history. It centres on how and why one family travelled from Leicestershire, England to Japan, onwards through the Orient via China and India, back to southern England before returning to Leicestershire some 150 years later. It explores the world events that dominated this shared timeline and speculates as to how such happenings steered these Gray ancestors along their incredible paths."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.

Jellicoe and the Iron Duke ; the admiral, the battleship and the Battle of Jutland /Gordon L. Herries Davies "This book takes a wide view of the events leading up to the Battle of Jutland as they concerned Jellicoe. It considers happenings and personages going as far back as the 1890s, when Jellicoe had come close to death by drowning during the sinking of the Victoria, and when he had faced death for a second time when badly wounded in China."--Provided by the publisher. 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92JELLICOE

The art and history of globes / Sylvia Sumira. This book celebrates the art and history of the globe, focusing on the 400 years when the printed globe - as navigational tool, scientific instrument and powerful status symbol - occupied an important place in the history of European exploration. It ranges from the first globe ever made in China to the desktop models in Victorian schoolrooms, and from celestial globes of the sixteenth century to charming pocket examples produced as educational toys. Featuring sixty examples drawn from collections around the world, this is a major new book on the subject for the general reader and collectors alike, and uses stunning new photography to pick out the revealing details - ships and sea monsters, navigators' tracks and newly found islands, constellations and astronomical features - that help us to understand why globes were made and how they were used.0Published in North and South America by University of Chicago Press as 'Globes: 400 Years of Exploration, Navigation and Power.' 2014. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 528.951"15/18"

The tale of an ancient mariner : Robert Humphrey Ivey 1829 to 1922 /Frank Townsend. "Robert Ivey went to sea as an apprentice aged 12 years in the era of the sailing ships. He became master Master Mariner at the age of 28 and during his 33 years at sea he sailed to ports in Europe, North & South America, India and China mostly from Liverpool and London. He was shipwrecked twice and once had to deal with a mutiny abord. After he retired from the sea he gained employment with the Shipwrecked Mariners Society as their first Visiting Secretary, whose job it was to travel to shipwrecks around our coast and assist those sailors who had survived. He manned the Society's stand at many National exhibitions and subsequently managed the Society's Sailors Home in East End of London. Using the many records available the author has managed to detail the life of this very interesting and capable man."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92IVEY

RMS Titanic : Made in the Midlands "The story of the ill-fated liner Titanic is one that has been told and retold countless times ? it is hard to imagine that there could be any new stories or twists to the tale. Yet Titanic's strong connection with the Midlands is one such story that is not so well known. The ship may have been built in Belfast, registered in Liverpool and sailed from Southampton, but over 70 per cent of her interiors came from the Midlands. This pivotal piece of research from Titanic expert Andrew P.B. Lound explores the role played by the people and the varied industries of the Black Country in the life of the most famous ship in the world."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123TITANIC

Asian travel in the Renaissance "Asian Travel in the Renaissance looks at travel in Asia for the purposes of trade, colonialism, and religious conversion by a diverse array of Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, and English figures. It contrasts the traditions and aspirations of rival trading companies and religious orders in the Renaissance era, describing the cultural politics of European contact with countries from Siam to Japan. The book comprises a series of essays written by international scholars, each of which focuses on a particular aspect of religious, cultural, political, and economic exchange. Subjects under scrutiny include Dutch methods of globalisation, the Jesuits' attempts to introduce European culture into China, the part played by the Far East in the English imagination, and the documentary resources available to chroniclers who recorded the journeys of their countrymen. Collectively, the essays establish the importance of Asia as a place of aspiration and experience in the early modern period."--Provided by the publisher. 2004 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(5)"15/16"

South Sea Argonauts : James Colnett and the enlargement of the Pacific 1772-1803 /Granville Allen Mawer. "'Who is Colnett?' So asks Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's Far Side of the World. Who indeed. As an adventurous teenager, James Colnett had sailed with Cook in the Resolution. He later became a pioneer in the Pacific sea otter trade, nearly starting a war with Spain in the process. He attempted to force Japan and Korea to admit British trade, and failing that smuggled pelts into China. He conducted a whaling reconnaissance to the Galapagos Islands and transported convicts to New South Wales. One way or another, James Colnett managed to intersperse fighting his country's enemies in the American and French wars with thirteen years plying the South Seas. Seeing himself as a latter-day Argonaut, he reflected that his working life had been devoted to 'enlarging the bounds of Navigation and Commerce'. The Pacific gave him ample scope."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Spice : the 16th-century contest that shaped the modern world /Roger Crowley. "When the Portuguese finally reached the Spice Islands of the Moluccas in 1511, they set in motion a fierce competition for control. With great storytelling verve, Roger Crowley shows how this struggle shaped the modern world. From 1511 to 1571, European powers linked up the oceans, established vast maritime empires, and gave birth to global trade, all in the attempt to control the supply of spices. Taking us on voyages from the dockyards of Seville to the vastness of the Pacific, the volcanic Spice Islands of Indonesia, the Arctic Circle and the coasts of China, this is a narrative history rich in vivid eyewitness accounts of the adventures, shipwrecks, and sieges that formed the first colonial encounters - and remade the world economy for centuries to follow." 2024 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382/.41383

P&O cruise ships / Ian Collard An illustrated record of P&O's passenger liners dating from 1829 and the William Fawcett chartered by Brodie McGhie Willcox and Arthur Anderson to provide a regular service to the Iberian peninsular and operating under the Peninsular Steam Navigation Co. name. Winning the mail contract to India, the company changed its name in 1840 to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. Ltd and went on to run services to China, the Far East and Australia. The introduction provides a history of the company and its continued growth through acquisition and merger. The illustrations include paintings and photographs of ships and their interiors as well as promotional material. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 347.792P&O

The unforgiving minute. The autobiography of Rear-Admiral Sir Morgan Morgan-Giles (1914-2013), primarily written for his family. Joining the China fleet as a midshipman in 1932, his wartime duties included operations in Norway, the Mediteranean, Suez, Tobruk and Yugoslavia as well as serving with the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm, and finally in the Far East. After the war Morgan-Giles continued to serve in the Royal Navy, in 1961 taking command of HMS Belfast, then flagship of the Far East Fleet. Promoted to Rear-Admiral in 1963, he became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Leaving the Royal Navy in 1964, Morgan-Giles become Member of Parliament for Winchester, retiring in 1979. In 1971 he successful saved HMS Belfast from scrapping by campaigning to transform the ship into a museum. Appendices include family obituaries and details of the boats owned by Morgan-Giles for pleasure. 2002 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.124"19"

Ancient boats and ships / Seâan McGrail. "After an introduction to the topic of maritime archaeology and an account of the way maritime archaeologists work, the author describes the building and use of rafts, boats and ships in north-west Europe up to about 1500. The evidence for early sea voyages and for navigation without instruments is surveyed and there follows a summary of present knowledge about early water transport in the Mediterranean, Arabia, India, south-east Asia, China, Australia, the south Pacific and the Americas. There is a glossary of technical terms, a list of places to visit and guidance on further reading. This volume is a revised and expanded version of Ancient Boats, first published in 1983."--Provided by the publisher. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123.11

Persistent piracy : maritime violence and state formation in global historical perspective /edited by Stefan Eklèof Amirell and Leos Mèuller. "Warfare and legitimate violence have long been seen as key elements in state formation. Persistent Piracy brings into the picture the long missing component of maritime violence - and shows it to be of vital importance to the formation and, on occasion, disintegration, of states. Spanning from the Caribbean to East Asia and covering almost 3,000 years of history, from Classical Antiquity to the eve of the twenty-first century, the book is an important contribution to the history of state formation as well as the history of violence at sea. The book has contributions by leading authorities in the field of piracy studies and history more generally: Philip de Souza, Neil Price, Wolfgang Kaiser, Guillame Calafat, James K. Chin, Robert J. Antony, David J. Starkey, Matthew McCarthy, James Francis Warren and Stig Jarle Hansen."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1

Imperial legacies : the British Empire around the world /Jeremy Black. "Britain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are in part criticisms of the reality of American power today. He emphasizes the prominence of imperial rule in history and in the world today, and the selective way in which certain countries are castigated. Imperial Legacies is a wide-ranging and vigorous assault on political correctness, its language, misuse of the past, and grasping of both present and future"--Provided by publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 909/.0971241

Under a yellow sky : a tale of the sea and coming of age /Simon J. Hall. Autobiography by Simon Hall recounting his experiences as a junior officer in the British Merchant Navy in the early 1970s. The book provides candid descriptions of life and work as a Deck Cadet in the early 1970s, from the earliest days of training, to naval college, to serving on board numerous voyages across the Pacific and South China Sea. Includes black and white photos throughout. [2013]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92HALL S

Leaves from memory's log-book and jottings from old journals Recollections of Rear Admiral Frederick Byng Montresor (1811-1887) covering his naval career, firstly as a midshipman on board the Cambridge, Ramilies, Gloucester, Ocean, Isis, Southampton and HMS Zebra and then as a lieutenant, his duties in the West Indies on the President, Wasp, Magnificent, Forte, Melville, Champion and Winchester. Later chapters cover his command of HMS Pickle, Wanderer, Cygnet, Calypso and Severn. His voyages included passages to the West Indies, South America, Africa, Pacific Islands, Australia and New Zealand, India, Japan, China and Hong Kong. His encounters with the people he met and his observations on trading patterns are also described. Reflecting on visits in 1832 to New Zealand, Tahiti and Tonga, the author, for example, recollects meeting missionaries such as Henry Williams, Maori, the Tahitian Queen and Royal Family, and the King of Tonga. His many anecdotes include the story of Jack Rio, a former slave turned sailor from Brazil, who after a career of seven years with the Navy was revealed as a woman. Also included is a description of the author's visit to the Pitcairn Islands in the 1860s where he met descendants of the Bounty mutineers. 1887 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.124(42)"18"

Encyclopedia of the history of astronomy and astrophysics / David Leverington. This comprehensive book covers the full history of astronomy from its ancient origins in Africa, South America, the Middle East and China to the latest developments in astrophysics and space-based research. The initial articles, which are largely organised chronologically, are followed by numerous thematic historical articles on the constituents of the Solar System, types of stars, stellar evolution, active galaxies, cosmology and much more. These are followed by articles on tools and techniques, from the history of spectroscopy to adaptive optics. The last part of the Encyclopedia is devoted to the history of ground- and space-based telescopes and observatories, covering the full spectral range from gamma-rays through the optical waveband to radio waves. Informative and accessibly written, each article is followed by an extensive bibliography to facilitate further research, whilst consistent coverage from ancient times to the present makes this an ideal resource for scholars, students and amateur astronomers alike. 2013. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 52

Astronomy and astrology in the medieval Islamic world "This collection of studies by Edward Kennedy looks first at questions of spherical astronomy, celestial mapping and planetary models, and then deals with astrological calculations. Throughout the author emphasises the importance of advances in mathematics for understanding the development of medieval Arabic sciences. This collection of studies [is] based on previously unexploited manuscript sources in Arabic and Persian. They were written by authors from the 9th through the 15th centuries, whose locations reached from south China in the east through Central Asia, the Middle and Near East, and North Africa, to Spain in the west. The topics are predominately astronomical rather than astrological. The former include eclipse predictions, problems in spherical astronomy, non-ptolemaic planetary theory, and the achievements of Ulugh Beg and his observatory. Astrological subjects treated are the method of calculating the ascendant, and how to determine astrological houses and lots. An astrological history of the career of Genghis Khan is also described."--Provided by the publisher. 1998 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 52:133.52:297

John Barry : an American hero in the age of sail /Tim McGrath. McGrath, Tim. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BARRY

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