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Pirates and privateers in the 18th century : the final flourish /Mike Rendell. "Pirates and Privateers tells the fascinating story of the buccaneers who were the scourge of merchants in the 18th Century. It examines their lifestyle, looking at how the sinking of the Spanish treasure fleet in a storm off the coast of Florida led to a pirate's gold rush; how the King's Pardon was a desperate gamble - which paid off - and considers the role of individual island governors, such as Woodes Rogers in the Bahamas, in bringing piracy under control. The book also looks at how piracy has been a popular topic in print, plays, songs and now films, making thieves and murderers into swash-buckling heroes. It also considers the whole question of buried treasure - and gives a lively account of many of the pirates who dominated the so-called 'Golden Age' of Piracy."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1"17"

Project Hula : secret Soviet-American co-operation in the war against Japan Russell, Richard A 1997 • PAMPHLET • 2 copies available. 355.358(47:73)"1942/1945"

The future of the past : how the information age threatens to destroy our cultural heritage Stille, Alexander 2002 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 72.025

The Atlantic crossing guide "Readers on both sides of the Atlantic who are planning - or just pondering - a crossing or an extended cruise in these waters will find this book an invaluable aid. What is the best time to go? What provisions are needed? When and where does fog occur? And icebergs? What are the limits of the Gulf Stream? Is the boat sound? Is she properly crewed and equipped? What ports of call present themselves? What facilities are there en route and at the destination? All these questions and many more are answered."--Provided by the publisher. 1988 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.83(261)

To sail no more : colour edition - part one /Ian Buxton "This brand new volume follows on from our hugely successful series of books featuring warships being broken up at the end of their lives. This is the first of two special volumes featuring the photographs of Tom Ferrers-Walker, who travelled around the UK's shipbreaking yards recording the final moments of many former RN warships. This much enlarged volume covers the period 1949-62 and features battleships from Royal Sovereign through the King George V class to Vanguard. Cruisers, aircraft carriers, submarines and escorts are all recorded, in full colour in this hardback volume."--Provided by the publisher 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82.004.72(42)

Battleships of World War II An illustrated directory providing details and specifications for the Dunquerque, Richelieu, Bismarck, Hood, Nelson, King George V, Cavour, Duilio, Vittorio Veneto, Fuso, Ise, Nagato, Yamato, Tennessee, Colorado, North Carolina, South Dakota and Iowa classes of battleship. Illustrated with photographs. 1997 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.821.2"1939/1945"

The Northseamen : the story of the fishermen, yachtsmen and shipbuilders of the Colne and Blackwater rivers Leather, John 1971 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 629.12(426.7)

The uses of air photography 1977 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 528.7

The Medley of mast and sail : a camera record, part 2 :525 photographic illustrations of many the world's vanished sailing craft, both great and small, accompanied by comment and description by experiences ship-masters and other experts /with an introduction by Alex. A Hurst. 1981. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 629.123.13/.19

The Twilight of sail Knox-Johnston, Robin 1978 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 629.123.13(084.12)

The golden atlas : the greatest explorations, quests and discoveries on maps /Edward Brooke-Hitching "The Golden Atlas is a spectacular visual history of exploration and cartography, a treasure chest of adventures from the chronicles of global discovery, illustrated with a selection of the most beautiful maps ever created. The book reveals how the world came to be known, featuring a magnificent gallery of exceptionally rare hand-coloured antique maps, paintings and engravings, many of which can only be found in the author's collection. Arranged chronologically, the reader is taken on a breathtaking expedition through Ancient Babylonian geography and Marco Polo's journey to the Mongol Khan, on to buccaneers ransacking the Caribbean and the voyages of seafarers such as Captain Cook and fearless African pathfinders. Their stories are told in an engaging and compelling style, bringing vividly to life a motley collection of heroic explorers, treasure-hunters and death-dealing villains - all of them accompanied by eye-grabbing illustrations from rare maps, charts and manuscripts. The Golden Atlas takes you back to a world of darkness and peril, placing you on storm-lashed ships, frozen wastelands and the shores of hostile territories to see how the lines were drawn to form the shape of the modern world."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 912.43

British prisoners of war in First World War Germany / Oliver Wilkinson, University of Wolverhampton. "Over 185,000 British military servicemen were captured by the Germans during the First World War and incarcerated as prisoners of war (POWs). In this original investigation into their experiences of captivity, Wilkinson uses official and private British source material to explore how these servicemen were challenged by, and responded to, their wartime fate. Examining the psychological anguish associated with captivity, and physical trials, such as the controlling camp spaces; harsh routines and regimes; the lack of material necessities; and, for many, forced labour demands, he asks if, how and with what effects British POWs were able to respond to such challenges. The culmination of this research reveals a range of coping strategies embracing resistance; leadership and organisation; networks of support; and links with 'home worlds'. British Prisoners of War in First World War Germany offers an original insight into First World War captivity, the German POW camps, and the mentalities and perceptions of the British servicemen held within."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.257.3

The listeners : U-boat hunters during the Great War /Roy R. Manstan. "Roy R. Manstan's new book documents the rise of German submarines in World War I and the Allies' successful response of tracking them with innovative listening devices-precursors to modern sonar. The Listeners: U-boat Hunters During the Great War details the struggle to find a solution to the unanticipated efficiency of the German U-boat as an undersea predator. Success or failure was in the hands and minds of the scientists and naval personnel at the Naval Experimental Station in New London, Connecticut. Through the use of archival materials, personal papers, and memoirs The Listeners takes readers into the world of the civilian scientists and engineers and naval personnel who were directly involved with the development and use of submarine detection technology during the war."--Provided by publisher. 2018 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.451.6

The geographies of Englishness : landscape and the national past 1880-1940 2002 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.035(42)"1880/1940"

Scapa 1919 : the archaeology of a scuttled fleet /Innes McCartney. "The German High Seas Fleet was one of the most powerful naval forces in the world, and had fought the pride of the Royal Navy to a stalemate at the battle of Jutland in 1916. After the armistice was signed, ending fighting in World War I, it surrendered to the British and was interned in Scapa Flow pending the outcome of the Treaty of Versailles. In June 1919, the entire fleet attempted to sink itself in the Flow to prevent it being broken up as war prizes. Of the 74 ships present, 52 sunk and 22 were prevented from doing so by circumstance and British intervention. Marine archaeologist and historian Dr Innes McCartney reveals for the first time what became of the warships that were scuttled, examining the circumstances behind the loss of each ship and reconciling what was known at the time to what the archaeology is telling us today. This fascinating study reveals a fleet lost for nearly a century beneath the waves."--Provided by the publisher 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1919"(411.2)

Manual on oil pollution : section 4 : combating oil spills International Maritime Organization 1988 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 665.6:628.515

The cosmic mystery tour : a high-speed journey through space & time "The Cosmic Mystery Tour takes us on a lightning tour of the mysteries of the universe enlivened by brief stories of the colourful characters who created modern science. It explores hot topics in physics and astronomy, including the recent discovery of gravitational waves; the quest for the origin of dark matter; the study of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy; the ongoing search for Earth-like exoplanets; the search for signals from extraterrestrials; and the development of technologies to send spacecraft to the stars. The first part of the book explores the laws that govern the universe. Physics is a spiritual quest to find deep meaning in the cosmos. Its goal is to provide a concise, but accurate description of the world that accounts for all the amazing features that it contains. The second part takes a look at the history of the cosmos, studies its geography and explores some of its architectural highlights such as red giants, white dwarfs, neutron stars and the ultimate cosmic mysteries-supermassive black holes. The last part considers the possibility that life might exist elsewhere in the universe, and explores the cosmos from the outer fringes of science fiction to the ongoing search for alien civilizations."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 524.8

Conservation manual of maritime archaeological objects in Korea /cKim Hyoyun et al. Hyoyun, Kim et al 2014. • BOOK • 2 copies available.

Tahiti : a paradise lost Howarth, David 1983 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4

British military aircraft serials 1911-1971 Robertson, Bruce 1971 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.746(42)

Steamers to Ayrshire "In sepia and in full colour this latest collection from self-dubbed 'steamer dreamer' Andrew Clark deals with the Clyde steamers that plied to and from Ayrshire ports. The heyday of this pleasure cruising was the 1890s to the 1950s when dozens of different steamers were involved. Today only the Waverley continues the tradition of departing from Ayrshire and heading off in all directions. This companion volume to the author's other three Steamers to titles is, like them, illustrated from his extensive collection of rare and unusual steamer images. Locations featured in the book are Ardrossan's Winton Pier, Largs, Ailsa Craig, Ayr, Portencross, Fairlie, Irvine, Troon and Girvan."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123.2(414.2)

The golden age of Spain 1516-1659 Ortiz, Antonio Dominguez 1971 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 946.0.04

The Overland launch Hodges, C Walter 1969 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3(423.5)

Cul de Sac : patrimony, capitalism, and slavery in French Saint-Domingue /Paul Cheney. "In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory of one plantation owned by the Ferron de la Ferronnayses, a family of Breton nobles, draws on remarkable archival finds to show that despite the wealth such plantations produced, they operated in a context of social, political, and environmental fragility that left them weak and crisis prone. Focusing on correspondence between the Ferronnayses and their plantation managers, 'Cul de Sac' proposes that the Caribbean plantation system, with its reliance on factory-like production processes and highly integrated markets, was a particularly modern expression of eighteenth-century capitalism. But it rested on a foundation of economic and political traditionalism that stymied growth and adaptation. The result was a system heading toward collapse as planters, facing a series of larger crises in the French empire, vainly attempted to rein in the inherent violence and instability of the slave society they had built. In recovering the lost world of the French Antillean plantation, 'Cul de Sac' ultimately reveals how the capitalism of the plantation complex persisted not as a dynamic source of progress, but from the inertia of a degenerate system headed down an economic and ideological dead end."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382:664.1

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