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Battleship commander : the life of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr. /Paul Stillwell. "This is the first-ever biography of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr., who played a key role during World War II in the Pacific. Recognising the achievements and legacy of one of the war's top combat admirals has been long overdue until now"--Provided by publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92LEE

Tug use in port : a practical guide : including ports, port approaches and offshore terminals /by Captain Henk Hensen. Hensen, Henk. 2021. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.8232

Britain at bay, 1938-1941 : the epic story of the Second World War /Alan Allport. In the bleak first half of the Second World War, Britain stood alone against the Axis forces. Isolated and outmanoeuvred, it seemed as though she might fall at any moment. Only an extraordinary effort of courage - by ordinary men and women - held the line. The Second World War is the defining experience of modern British history, a new Iliad for our own times. But, as Alan Allport reveals in this, the first part of a major new two-volume history, the real story was often very different from the myth that followed it. From the subtle moral calculus of appeasement to the febrile dusts of the Western Desert, Allport interrogates every aspect of the conflict - and exposes its echoes in our own age. Challenging orthodoxy and casting fresh light on famous events from Dunkirk to the Blitz, this is the real story of a clash between civilisations that remade the world in its image."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Seamanship in the age of sail : an account of the shiphandling of the sailing man-of-war 1600-1860, based on contemporary sources Harland, John 1984 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 656.61.052"16/18"

Old order, new thing : being a short study of tugs, their men and their machinery, set within the context of the Manchester Ship Canal and with particular reference to the paddle tug, Reliant, formerly Old Trafford /by H. Campbell McMurray. McMurray, H Campbell [1972]. • BOOK • 6 copies available. 629.123Old Trafford

Children at sea : lives shaped by the waves /Vyvyen Brendon. "Children at sea faced even more drastic separations from loved ones than those sent 'home' from India or those packed off to English boarding schools at the age of seven, the subjects of Vyvyen Brendon's previous books. Captured slaves, child migrants and transported convicts faced an ocean passage leading nearly always to life-long exile in distant lands. Boys apprenticed as merchant seamen, or enlisted as powder monkeys, or signed on as midshipmen, usually progressed to a nautical career fraught with danger and broken only by fleeting periods of home leave. Solitary among numbers, as Admiral Collingwood described himself, they could be not just physically at risk but psychologically adrift - at sea in more ways than one. Rather than abandoning seaborne children as they approached adulthood, therefore, Vyvyen follows whole lives shaped by the waves. She focusses on eight central characters: a slave captured in Africa, a convict girl transported to Australia, a Barnardo's lass sent as a migrant to Canada, a foundling brought up in Coram's Hospital who ran away to sea, and four youths from contrasting backgrounds despatched to serve as midshipmen. Their social origins as well as their maritime ventures are revealed through a rich variety of original source material discovered in scattered archives. These brine-encrusted lives are resurrected both for their intrinsic interest and because they speak for thousands of children, cast off alone to face storms and calms, excitement and monotony, fellowship and loneliness, kindness and abuse, sea-sickness and ozone breezes, loss and hope. This book recounts stories never before told, stories that might otherwise have sunk without trace like so much juvenile flotsam. They are sometimes inspiring, sometimes heart-rending and always compelling."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.45

Mapping an Atlantic world, circa 1500 / Alida C. Metcalf. "Beginning around 1500, in the decades following Columbus's voyages, the Atlantic Ocean moved from the periphery to the center on European world maps. This brief but highly significant moment in early modern European history marks not only a paradigm shift in how the world was mapped but also the opening of what historians call the Atlantic World. But how did sixteenth-century chartmakers and mapmakers begin to conceptualize?and present to the public?an interconnected Atlantic World that was open and navigable, in comparison to the mysterious ocean that had blocked off the Western hemisphere before Columbus's exploration? In Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500, Alida C. Metcalf argues that the earliest surviving maps from this era, which depict trade, colonization, evangelism, and the movement of peoples, reveal powerful and persuasive arguments about the possibility of an interconnected Atlantic World. Blending scholarship from two fields, historical cartography and Atlantic history, Metcalf explains why Renaissance cosmographers first incorporated sailing charts into their maps and began to reject classical models for mapping the world. Combined with the new placement of the Atlantic, the visual imagery on Atlantic maps?which featured decorative compass roses, animals, landscapes, and native peoples - communicated the accessibility of distant places with valuable commodities. Even though individual maps became outdated quickly, Metcalf reveals, new mapmakers copied their imagery, which then repeated on map after map. Individual maps might fall out of date, be lost, discarded, or forgotten, but their geographic and visual design promoted a new way of seeing the world, with an interconnected Atlantic World at its center. Describing the negotiation that took place between a small cadre of explorers and a wider class of cartographers, chartmakers, cosmographers, and artists, Metcalf shows how exploration informed mapmaking and vice versa. Recognizing early modern cartographers as significant agents in the intellectual history of the Atlantic, Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500 includes around 50 beautiful and illuminating historical maps."--Provided by publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 526.09182/109031

Blow ye winds westerly : the seaports & sailing ships of old New England /by Elizabeth Gemming. Gemming, Elizabeth. 1971. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 917.4/03/3

Sir George Biddell Airy : Astronomer Royal, experimenter, and public servant /by Allan Chapman. Chapman, Allan, 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

A guide to Norwegian genealogy, emigration, and transmigration / Liv Marit Haakenstad. "The first part of the book 'A Guide to Norwegian Genealogy, Emigration, and Transmigration' gives an overall view on the Norwegian emigration history, before taking you to Great Britain, which was one of several routes for transmigration. Further on, you will get an insight on what happened when Norwegian emigrants arrived in North America. The second part is about sources in the United States and Canada. What information can you find in these sources that show the way back to Norway? The book also thoroughly covers Norwegian sources. Finally, the whole book finishes off with a chapter about genealogical methods."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

Imperial landscapes : Britain's global visual culture, 1745-1820 /John E. Crowley. "In response to conquests in mid-18th-century wars, Britons developed a keen interest in how their colonies actually looked. Artistic representations of these faraway places, claiming topographic accuracy from being 'drawn on the spot', became increasingly frequent as the British Empire extended its reach during and after the Seven Years War. This is the first book to examine the country's early imperial landscape art from a broad comparative perspective. Chapters on the West Indies, Canada, the United States, the Pacific, Australia, and India show how British artists linked colonial territories with their homeland. This is both a ravishingly beautiful art book and a historical analysis of how British visual culture entwined with the politics of colonisation."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 704.9/436171241

Comet Halley returns : a teachers' guide 1985-1986 /Robert D. Chapmand and R. Lynn Bondurant Chapman, Robert D [1984] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 523.64Halley

The seaside : England's love affair /Madeleine Bunting. "England's seaside is made up of a striking variety of coastlines including cliffs, coves, pebbled shore, wide sandy beaches, salt marshes, and estuaries cutting deep inland. On these coastal edges England's great holiday resorts grew up, developed in the early eighteenth century originally as spas for medicinal bathing but soon morphing into places of pleasure, entertainment, fantasy and adventure. Acclaimed writer Madeleine Bunting journeyed clockwise around England from Scarborough to Blackpool to understand the enduring appeal of seaside towns, and what has happened to the golden sands, cold seas and donkey rides of childhood memory. Taking in some forty resorts, staying in hotels, caravans and holiday camps, she swims from their beaches and talks to their residents to delve into their landscapes, histories and contemporary plight. Once thriving, innovative places and leaders of architectural innovation, many are now struggling with the deepest deprivation and ill health in the country. Yet they still act as a bellwether for our nation, and in the stories of their poverty and neglect, Bunting finds that these holiday towns - so influential in England's history and in the shaping of our national identity - speak powerfully to the character and political state of England today."--Provided by the publisher. 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 914.20946

Up from slavery / Booker T. Washington ; with a new introduction by Ishmael Reed and a new afterword by Robert J. Norrell. The autobiography of Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) who was born on a tobacco farm in Virginia, and enslaved from birth. Following the Emancipation Proclamation, his family moved to West Virginia where he worked in the mines while studying. Subsequently enrolling in the Hampton Institute, he later became a teacher there and went on to found the Tuskegee Institute, a vocational school, in Alabama. He became recognised as a pioneer of black education in the United States and a critic of racism, becoming the first African-American to receive an honorary PhD from Harvard University. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92:326.8(73)

Maritime education and training : a practical guide /Robert L Tallack. 1997. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.88/071

Torafarugåa / Aoike Yasuko. Aoike, Yasuko, 1986. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Blue water war : the maritime struggle in the Mediterranean and Middle East, 1940-1945 /Brian E. Walter. "For three millennia the Mediterranean Sea served as the centre of western civilization and the scene of many colossal wars and naval battles. In the early summer of 1940, this ancient body of water again played host to a new and extensive conflict as the Kingdom of Italy challenged Britain for dominance within the region. With France on the verge of collapse and Britain facing the prospect of imminent invasion, the Italians hoped to re-establish control over the Mediterranean. The only thing standing in their way was the heavily outnumbered British Mediterranean Fleet and the equally outnumbered British ground and air forces present in the region. Together, these forces would determine whether the Mediterranean reverted back to Italian control or whether the Allies would prevail and retain supremacy over this great body of water for themselves."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.54/23

Tuning the rig : a journey to the Arctic /Harvey Oxenhorn. Oxenhorn, Harvey. Ã1990. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 919.804

Children of uncertain fortune : mixed-race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic family, 1733-1833 /Daniel Livesay. "By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences, and inheritance lawsuits, Daniel Livesay is the first scholar to follow the hundreds of children born to white planters and Caribbean women of color who crossed the ocean for educational opportunities, professional apprenticeships, marriage prospects, or refuge from colonial prejudices. The presence of these elite children of color in Britain pushed popular opinion in the British Atlantic world toward narrower conceptions of race and kinship. Members of Parliament, colonial assemblymen, merchant kings, and cultural arbiters - the very people who decided Britain's colonial policies, debated abolition, passed marital laws, and arbitrated inheritance disputes - rubbed shoulders with these mixed-race Caribbean migrants in parlors and sitting rooms. Upper-class Britons also resented colonial transplants and coveted their inheritances; family intimacy gave way to racial exclusion. By the early nineteenth century, relatives had become strangers."--Provided by the publisher. [2018] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 305.23089/0596009041

American passage : the history of Ellis Island /Vincent J. Cannato. "For most of New York's early history, Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today the small island stands alongside Plymouth Rock in our nation's founding mythology as the place where many of our ancestors first touched American soil. American Passage captures a time and a place unparalleled in American immigration and history, and articulates the dramatic and bittersweet accounts of the immigrants, officials, interpreters, and social reformers who all played an important role in Ellis Island's chronicle. In this sweeping, often heart-wrenching epic, Vincent J. Cannato reveals that the history of Ellis Island is ultimately the story of what it means to be an American."--Provided by the publisher. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 314.15(734.7)"1892/1924"-026.48

The Baltic cauldron : two navies and the fight for freedom /Michael Ellis, Gustaf von Hofsten and Derek Law. "The Baltic Cauldron commemorates several centuries of Anglo-Swedish relations, which, after events in Eastern Europe in 2022, have acquired a new resonance as a record of the struggle for survival and independence of nations bordering the Baltic. This is a history of navies in the Baltic Sea and its approaches, from the Skaggerak to the Gulfs of Bothnia and Finland. This book portrays the relationship between the Swedish and British Navies over the centuries. In the 1700s, Britain was a global naval power and developed doctrine, ships and culture which were copied by others, but the relationship with Sweden became special. While Britain and its navy depended upon Baltic Sea trade for timber, tar, iron and grain, the foundation was laid for the Swedish Navy, its self-image, tactics, materials and traditions. Among the subjects addressed are: the origins of the Swedish navy; the first English fleet to visit the Baltic; Charles XII?s amphibious campaigns; the English influence on Swedish shipbuilding; the quixotic Admiral Sir Sidney Smith; Admirals Lord Nelson and James Saumarez at war and peace; and, in the 20th century, the hunt for the Bismarck, Churchill?s planned attack on arctic Luleêa in 1940, and blockade-runners in the Second World War. This ground-breaking study is filled with new insights, and contains much previously unpublished information, some based on Swedish sources which are not often quoted in the English-speaking world. The book is brought up to date with an account of the capture by Iranian forces of Stena Impero. Lessons in sea power are drawn throughout the book. The Baltic Cauldron is a fitting and worthy tribute to both the Royal Navy and to the Royal Swedish Navy at its quincentenary."--Provided by the publisher. 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.00916334

The official Halley's comet project book / Brian Harpur [and] Laurence Anslow Harpur, Brian 1985. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 523.64Halley

Catalogus stellarum australium : sive supplementum catalogi Tychonici exhibens longitudines & latitudines stellarum Halley, Edmond, 1679 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

Far-fetched facts : the literature of travel and the idea of the South Seas An in-depth history of travel literature, and particularly how the South Seas have been perceived by Western imaginations from classical times to the twentieth century. The book explores how the distinction between fact and fiction is blurred by comparing real and imaginary accounts of travel. Featuring prominently are the writings of Marco Polo, Mandeville, and Columbus; Cook and Bougainville; Montaigne and Bacon; Melville, Stevenson, Loti, Mead and Malinowski. Extensively indexed, including a bibliography as well as eight black and white plates. 1995 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-311.8

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