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A stain in the blood : the remarkable voyage of Sir Kenelm Digby :pirate and poet, courtier and cook, king's servant and traitor's son /Joe Moshenska. "On the 16th of August 1628, five battle-scarred English ships sailed into the harbour of the Greek island of Milos. Dropping anchor, the 25-year-old captain banqueted with the local lord before sitting down to write an account of his journey - an account that would transform him entirely. Sir Kenelm Digby was one of the most remarkable Englishmen who ever lived: a trusted advisor to the King, but the sworn enemy of the all-powerful Duke of Buckingham; a pioneering philosopher and scientist, but committed to the occult arts of alchemy and astrology; a friend not only of Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes and van Dyck, but even Oliver Cromwell. He was also widely known as the 'son of a traytor and husband of a whore': a man who witnessed his father's gruesome execution for high treason as a Gunpowder Plotter, and the lover of the most celebrated beauty of the age, Venetia Stanley. In an attempt to clear his name, and on a quest for personal glory, Digby assembled a fleet and set sail for the Mediterranean: a world of pirate cities and ancient ruins where people, ideas and exotic goods moved freely between languages and nations. His journey - encompassing fevers, mutiny, piracy, daring rescues and heroic sea battles - is a great and terribly overlooked adventure, and a prism through which to view England, and all of Europe, during one of the most pivotal periods in its history. A Stain in the Blood is the story of an extraordinary life, and of a journey that helped to shape a nation. It is a revelatory first work of non-fiction by one of the brightest young writers and thinkers of today."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92DIGBY

Commercium epistolicum D. Johannis Collins et aliorum de analysi promota : jussu Societatis regiae in lucem editum: et jam unáa cum ejusdem recensione praemissa, & judicio primarii, ut ferebatur, mathematici subjuncto, iterum impressum. Collins, John, 1722. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 51:094

The Mayflower in Britain : how an icon was made in London /Graham Taylor. "Published on the quatercentenary of the Mayflower's journey, this book offers a unique perspective by placing the story in a British context and providing a fresh analysis of why the journey took place. It explores the economic as well as the religious reasons for the journey to strip away the romantic, orthodox view of the Mayflower and offer an illuminating insight into how the journey became a reality. The voyage of the Mayflower has almost always been seen as part of American history and as part of America's struggle for democracy. Here Graham Taylor presents the story as part of British history and part of Britain's struggle for democracy. The tale usually told is of a romantic departure from Plymouth, Devon, and a momentous arrival in Plymouth, Massachusetts. In fact, the voyage arose out of grim and protracted negotiations in London. It was financed and organised by random investors in the City of London and its religious element was supplied by an underground church in Southwark, London. It sailed to America probably from Blackwall, in what is now London. The ship and its chief officers were based in Rotherhithe - also now London. Far from romantic, the voyage was a catalogue of mistakes and mishaps. The ship did not intend to go to Plymouth, Devon, but was forced to call in there for repairs. In America the voyagers did not know where to land, and when they did choose a place, there was almost a mutiny. Yet the Pilgrims took on board a precious cargo - a democratic spirit from London mellowed by a tolerance they learned in Holland. This spirit did not just inspire American democracy but acted as a shining example to those in Britain they left behind. The same communities in London that planned the voyage of the Mayflower were instrumental in waging and winning the English Civil War and consequently some of the liberties the British enjoy today"-- 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123MAYFLOWER

Anna of Denmark : the material and visual culture of the Stuart courts, 1589-1619 /Jemma Field. "This book analyses Anna of Denmark's material and visual patronage at the Stuart courts, examining her engagement with a wide array of expressive media including architecture, garden design, painting, music, dress, and jewellery. Encompassing Anna's time in Denmark, England, and Scotland, it establishes patterns of interest and influence in her agency, while furthering our knowledge of Baltic-British transfer in the early modern period. Substantial archival work has facilitated a formative re-conceptualisation of James and Anna's relationship, extended our knowledge of the constituents of consortship in the period, and has uncovered evidence to challenge the view that Anna followed the cultural accomplishments of her son, Prince Henry. This book reclaims Anna of Denmark as the influential and culturally active royal woman that her contemporaries knew. Combining politics, culture, and religion across the courts of Denmark, Scotland, and England, it enriches our understanding of royal women's roles in early modern patriarchal societies and their impact on the development of cultural modes and fashions. This book will be of interest to upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses on early modern Europe in the disciplines of Art and Architectural History, English Literature, Theatre Studies, History, and Gender Studies. It will also attract a wide range of academics working on early modern material and visual culture, and female patronage, while members of the public who enjoy the history of courts and the British royals will also find it distinctively appealing."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 941.06/1092

Merchant shipping : the Oil in Navigable Waters (Prohibited Sea Areas) (Amendment No 3) Order 1967 Great Britain. Statutory Instruments 1967 • GOVTPUB • 1 copy available. 628.515:665.6

Anhang der Beschreibung dess Konigreichs Congo ... Bry, Johann Theodor de 1625 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:910.4"14/16"

River, England and Wales : salmon and freshwater fisheries : the Dee and Clwyd River Authority (Fisheries) Revocation Order 1974 Great Britain. Statutory Instruments 1974 • GOVTPUB • 1 copy available. 639.21(282.242.935)

The Queen's House at Greenwich : the material cultures of the courts of Queen Anna of Denmark and Queen Henrietta Maria, 1603-1642 /Sophie Carney. Carney, Sophie Luisa [2013]. • FOLIO • 2 copies available.

Englands exchequer : or, a discourse of the sea and navigation Hagthorpe, John 1974 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.3

Appendix regni Congo qua continentur navigationes quinque Samuelis Brunonis ... quas recenti admodum memoria animose suscepit et feliciter perfecit ... Bry, Johann Theodor de 1625 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:910.4"14/16"

Americae pars V [ie VII]. Vera et iucunda descriptio praecipuarum quarundam Indiae Occidentalis regionum et insularum, quae quidem nullis ante haec tempora visae cognitaeque, iam primum ab Ulrico Fabro Straubingensi ... Bry, Theodor de 1625 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:910.4"14/16"

Lettres de M. Auzout sur les grandes lunettes : Voyages de MM. Cassini, en France, en Italie, en Flandre, en Hollande, & en Angleterre. Observations envoyâees des Indes & de la Chine áa l'Academie Royale des Sciences. Auzout, Adrien, 1735 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.22:094

A forme of common prayer, together with an order of fasting, for the averting of Gods heavy visitation upon many place of this kingdome, and for the drawing downe of his blessings upon us, and our armies by sea and land 1625 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:264-1

Purchas his pilgrimes, in five books ... Purchas, Samuel 1625 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 094:910.4

A history of the administration of the Royal Navy and of merchant shipping in relation to the Navy : from MDIX to MDCLX with an introduction treating of the preceding period /by M. Oppenheim Oppenheim, M 1896 • BOOK • 5 copies available. 355.353(42)"15/16"

The safeguard of sailers : or great rutter... Antoniszoon, Cornelis, 1671 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:527.83(261)"16"

The safeguard of sailers : or, a sure guide for coasters... Antoniszoon, Cornelis, 1677 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:527.83(261)"16"

The Other Norfolk Admirals : Myngs, Narbrough and Shovell /Simon Harris "The careers of the three Norfolk admirals were intimately related. Narbrough and Shovell came from the small North Norfolk hamlet of Cockthorpe and Myngs from nearby Salthouse. In the 1660s, Myngs was the captain, Narbrough the lieutenant and Shovell the lowly cabin boy in the same ship. It is also possible that they were all related at least by marriage. In the majority of the naval wars of the second half of the seventeenth and the early eighteenth centuries one or other of them was invariably present. Cloudesley Shovell was born to a yeoman farmer; he entered the Navy whilst still a boy and, in 1676, came to national prominence by burning the four ships of the Dey of Tripoli right under his castle walls. This led to conflict with Samuel Pepys over a gold medal that the generous Charles II had awarded Shovell. Later there was a spectacular falling out with James II over the new king's Catholicism. Following Narbrough's premature death, Shovell married his widow: effectively the cabin boy marrying the admiral's widow which is unique in British naval history. Brave to a fault, in the reigns of William and Mary, and Anne, Shovell became the leading fighting admiral of the age. In 1707, at the very height of his considerable powers, Shovell and nearly 2,000 men drowned after his ships were wrecked on the rocks of Scilly. According to his grandson, Shovell arrived on the shore alive and was then brutally murdered for the sake of an emerald ring on his finger. Faulty navigation was at the heart of Shovell's demise; did he keep his appointment with the celebrated scientist, Sir Isaac Newton, to discuss longitude? New theories concerning the causes of the disaster are examined and also the fate of his gold dinner service. Explorer, navigator, consummate sailor and naval administrator, John Narbrough was all this and more. No biography of Narbrough has been produced for 85 years and much new material has come to light in this time. For example the rediscovery of the ship, the Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion from which Narbrough was trying to salvage sunken Spanish silver when he died from a mysterious illness. In addition, the British Library recently raised a large sum of money to buy Narbrough's journals of his voyage [1669-71] into the Pacific Ocean and up to, what is now, modern day Chile. He illustrated his journals with paintings of the flora and fauna plus accurate depictions of the harbours that he visited. On his return journey, Narbrough became the first Englishman to sail through the Strait of Magellan from west to east. Both Narbrough and Shovell owed so much to Christopher Myngs and yet no comprehensive biography of him has yet been written. In the 1650s, out in the West Indies, he played very much the part of an Elizabethan buccaneer with repeated attacks on the Spanish Main. After helping himself to treasure that more properly belonged to the state, he was shipped home to England in semi-disgrace. However, in the run-up to the Restoration of the monarchy, the authorities did not think it appropriate to discipline the most popular man in the Navy. Later, at the Four Days' Battle of 1666, Myngs leading the English van, would attempt to fight on despite having his face shattered by a musket ball. Six days later, he died at his home in London and was buried in an East London churchyard which has now become a seedy park. He deserved better."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92:355.333.3

Converging on cannibals : terrors of slaving in Atlantic Africa, 1509-1670 /Jared Staller. "In Converging on Cannibals, Jared Staller demonstrates that one of the most terrifying discourses used during the era of transatlantic slaving-cannibalism-was coproduced by Europeans and Africans. When these people from vastly different cultures first came into contact, they shared a fear of potential cannibals. Some Africans and European slavers allowed these rumors of themselves as man-eaters to stand unchallenged. Using the visual and verbal idioms of cannibalism, people like the Imbangala of Angola rose to power in a brutal world by embodying terror itself. Beginning in the Kongo in the 1500s, Staller weaves a nuanced narrative of people who chose to live and behave as "jaga," alleged cannibals and terrorists who lived by raiding and enslaving others, culminating in the violent political machinations of Queen Njinga as she took on the mantle of "Jaga" to establish her power. Ultimately, Staller tells the story of Africans who confronted worlds unknown as cannibals, how they used the concept to order the world around them, and how they were themselves brought to order by a world of commercial slaving that was equally cannibalistic in the human lives it consumed."--Provided by the publisher. 2019 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 392.89

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