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Thames Tideway Simper, Robert 1997 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 629.123.16(421)

The stargazer's guide : how to read our night sky /Emily Winterburn. Winterburn, Emily. 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 524(036)

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)

Teatro a bordo de naus Portuguesas : nos seculos XV, XVI, XVII e XVIII Moura, [Carlos Francisco]-Carlos Francisco 2000 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 792.2(469)"14/17":910.4

The painted word : British history paitning 1750-1830 Heim Gallery, London 1991 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.43(083.83)

The last voyage : an account of the British ships of the line HMS St. George and HMS Defence and their history until their stranding on the west coast of Denmark on 24 December 1811 /Palle Uhd Jepsen Uhd Jepsen, Palle 2019 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.085.3ST. GEORGE

Puffers and places / Guthrie Hutton "This new companion volume to the author's Puffers which we published in 2007 and have had to reprint many times since. The subject matter is dear to the author's heart as he is a canal enthusiast and of course puffers worked some of Scotland's canals. While at the BBC he worked on the television series The Vital Spark. He also collects images of puffers assiduously and essentially told us he had found so many previously unseen pictures we had to do a new book. Nobody will be disappointed with the selection here which includes locations such as Crinan, Dunoon, Rothesay, Lochranza, Brodick, Ruchill, Kirkintilloch, Kirkcaldy, Portree, Bowling, Fort Augustus and more. All are accompanied by lengthy and detailed captions."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 629.123.2(410.5)

Attack on maritime trade This book deals with the importance of attacks by naval forces on international maritime trade and the subsequent effects on world politics. It covers five centuries and discusses the strategic value of naval action in the sphere of trade. Part I covers the period before the First World War. Part II deals with the 20th century including: naval blockades during the two World Wars; trade wars since 1945; the Falklands War and the 1990 Gulf War. There is an extensive bibliography and detailed index. 1991 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.355

Left behind at Zeebrugge : the incredible story of Sergeant Harry Wright DSM MSM RMLI : a personal account of the raid on Zeebrugge and his experiences as a WW1 prisoner of war /by Sergeant Harry Wright DSM MSM RMLI. Wright, Harry, 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92WRIGHT

King George V class battleships : HMS King George V. HMS Prince of Wales. HMS Duke of York. HMS Anson. HMS Howe /Witold Koszela. Koszela, Witold, 2018 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.821.2(42)

Museumsfèuhrer / Schiffahrtsmuseum Rostock. [Texte: Silvia Reissmann ... Red.: Ingrid Schmidt]. Schifffahrtsmuseum (Rostock) 1985 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 069(43)

British popular culture and the First World War / edited by Jessica Meyer. 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.4:39(42)

The Constantine Group Appleyard, H S 1983 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 629.123.4/.5(42)"19"

The clockmaker's assistant, or, A treatise concerning the calculation of numbers belonging to all sorts of clocks : 1726 /Henry Eliott. Elliott, Henry, 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.11(42)"16/17"

Learning at the museum frontiers : identity, race and power /Viv Golding. "In Learning at the Museum Frontiers, Viv Golding argues that the museum has the potential to function as a frontier - a zone where learning is created, new identities are forged and new connections made between disparate groups and their own histories. She draws on a range of theoretical perspectives including Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics, Foucauldian discourse on space and power, and postcolonial and Black feminist theory, as well as her own professional experience in museum education over a ten-year period, applying these ideas to a wide range of museum contexts. The book offers an important theoretical and empirical contribution to the debate on the value of museums and what they can contribute to society. The author reveals the radical potential for museums to tackle injustice and social exclusion, challenge racism, enhance knowledge and promote truth."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 069.12

Medal Yearbook 2015 / edited by John W. Mussell. Mussell, John W. [2014]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.134.22"2015"

Pirates : terror of the seas /by Ron Dallas Dallas, Ron 1991 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1

The gates of hell : Sir John Franklin's tragic quest for the North West Passage /Andrew Lambert. Lambert, Andrew D., 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(987)

Singapore, Chinese migration and the making of the British Empire, 1819-67 / Stan Neal. "The transformation of Singapore, founded by Stamford Raffles in 1819, from a trading post to a major centre for international trade was a huge commercial and colonial success for Britain. One key factor in all of this was the recruitment of Chinese migrant labour, which by the 1850s made up over half of the population. The transformation, however, was not limited to Singapore. As this book demonstrates, colonial administrators saw that the "model" of what had been done in Singapore, especially the use of Chinese migrant labour, could be replicated elsewhere. This book examines the establishment of the "Singapore model" and its transference - to Assam in India, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), Mauritius, Australia and the West Indies. It examines the role of the key people who developed the model, including the Hong Kong merchant houses and their financial expertise, discusses central ideas which lay behind the model, notably free trade and the use of "industrious" Chinese rather than "lazy" natives, and assesses the varying outcomes of the different colonial experiments. The themes discussed - economic opportunities and globalisation; the need to find labour without recourse to slavery, indentured labour or convict labour; migration, ethnicity and racism - all continue to have great significance at present, as does the idea that Singapore, still, is a model to be replicated more widely."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 941-44(592.3)

At sea with the scientifics : the Challenger letters of Joseph Matkin HMS Challenger set sail from Portsmouth in 1872 and spent three and a half years circumnavigating the globe. She established the foundations of oceanography and made an important contribution to 19th century science. Joseph Matkin, an assistant ship's steward, sent home letters which he composed from his journal. In these letters he commented on oceanographic activities, gave an account of life on board ship and described the history, geography and peoples of the ports at which the ship called on her circumnavigation. 1992 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82Challenger

Ports of Scotland & containerbases, 1991/92. [1991] • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 627.2(411)"1991/1992"

Chinese export watercolours Clunas, Craig 1984 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.032.11

Ritsons' branch line : the Nautilus Steam Shipping Company Limited of Sunderland, 1881-1931 /Malcolm Cooper. A history of the shipping company founded by the Ritson family of Sunderland in the 19th century. John Ritson entered ship owning in the 1820s, and in 1881 the family firm formed the Nautilus Steam Shipping Co Ltd. The company adopted the Branch nomenclature with which they were to be associated for the next fifty years. Nautilus's initial trade was primarily taking coal to Mediterranean ports and returning with grain, however by the end of the century Branch ships were trading worldwide and the company moved into the liner trade, taking over the Gulf Line service to South America. Branch ships suffered heavy losses during the First World War, and post-war renewal placed a heavy financial burden on Nautilus and the company struggled to make a profit. Bankruptcy finally ended Nautilus's fifty-year history in 1931. The book includes a fleet list illustrated with black-and-white photographs, and appendices including information on bought and sold prices, crew lists, names of Nautilus crew members killed in the First World War, and a list of major shareholders. 2002. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 347.792NAUTILUS

The sea, war and barbed wire : a story of merchant navy men /Philip Algar. "This is the fascinating story of Captain Stanley Algar, an oil tanker master. Captured in the Atlantic, he and his colleagues spent four years behind barbed wire. This book, partly based on his diaries, hidden from the Germans, tells how the prisoners survived, confronted starvation and reacted to camp life and German propaganda. A graphic account of their liberation, written as it happened, is included. The role of the U boats and the merchant raider vessels and their commanders is discussed. Why, initially, were they so successful? Many other aspects of the war, including the role of the BBC, the German attempt to persuade some prisoners to change sides and enemy propaganda, are considered. How did the prisoners know what was happening in the war and why was their information so accurate? What was their relationship with the guards? What correspondence with home was allowed? All of this is investigated within, and there is also a discussion of the Nuremberg trials and the appalling cost of the war. Finally, there are many pen portraits of international leaders and 'ordinary' men propelled into another conflict after 'the war to end all wars' had been concluded."--Provided by the publisher 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 656.61.071.22

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