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The last of the Mohicans : a narrative of 1757 Cooper, James Fenimore, 1839 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-3

Tempest : the Royal Navy and the Age of Revolution /James Davey. "The French Revolutionary Wars catapulted Britain into a conflict against a new enemy: Republican France. Britain relied on the Royal Navy to protect its shores and empire, but as radical ideas about rights and liberty spread across the globe, it could not prevent the spirit of revolution from reaching its ships. In this insightful history, James Davey tells the story of Britain's Royal Navy across the turbulent 1790s. As resistance and rebellion swept through the fleets, the navy itself became a political battleground. This was a conflict fought for principles as well as power. Sailors organized riots, strikes, petitions, and mutinies to achieve their goals. These shocking events dominated public discussion, prompting cynical - and sometimes brutal - responses from the government and naval command."--Provided by the publisher. 2023 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.0094109033

Lionel Lincoln : or the leaguer of Boston Cooper, James Fenimore, 1838 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-3

Sea tales : comprising The Pilot, The Red Rover, The Waterwitch, The Sea Lions and The Two Admirals Cooper, James Fenimore, [189-] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-32

Tables de Jupiter et de Saturne De Lambre,-M. 1789 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52-17:094

The Arctic whaling journals of William Scoresby the younger. edited by C. Ian Jackson ; with an appendix by Fred M. Walker. "This is the third and final volume in the set of William Scoresby's journals. It contains the unpublished accounts of his three voyages 1817, 1818 and 1820. [...] In each of the journals, Scoresby wrote detailed descriptions of his landings: on Jan Mayen in 1817, western Spitsbergen in 1818, and the Langanes peninsula in north-east Iceland in 1820. The 1817 voyage, when Scoresby and others found the Greenland Sea relatively free of ice, involved him in the renewed British interest in arctic maritime exploration after the Napoleonic Wars. The Introduction to this volume contains a major reappraisal of Scoresby's role, especially in regard to his alleged mistreatment by John Barrow, Second Secretary of the Admiralty. The volume also contains an appendix by Fred M. Walker on the building of wooden whaleships such as the Baffin that were capable of routine ice navigation under sail as far north as 80ÀN, based on Scoresby's account, as Owners' Representative, at the beginning of the 1820 journal".--Provided by the publisher. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.22

The pioneers : or the sources of the Susquehanna, a descriptive tale Cooper, James Fenimore, 1839 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-3

The Royal Navy : birth of a superpower 1793-1800 /Mark Jessop. "France declared war upon the British in 1793. The burden to conduct a long conflict proved heavy for that island nation. Poverty increased. Liberties and freedoms were sometimes taken away. Thousands of men had to leave their families, and disease, desertion and death meant that many never returned. At first the Royal Navy barely had enough warships to cope, but eight years later she had more than enough. By that time a threat of invasion towards Ireland prompted Parliament to enact a new nation, christened The United Kingdom of Great Britain. As such, 1800 became the final year of the old Kingdom of Great Britain. As she passed away, many of her men and women might have wondered as to what had made her navy a true Neptune. What had assisted the slow birth of a naval 'superpower'? This book seeks to answer that very question."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(42)"1793/1800"

Te-ahu-te-atua-o-no'a of the "Bounty" : Buch der Inhaltsverzeichnisse = list of tables of contents Thiessen, F-P [202-?] • FOLIO • 1 copy available.

Nelson's navy : the ships, men, and organisation, 1793-1815 /Brian Lavery ; foreword by Patrick O'Brian. Lavery, Brian. 1989. • FOLIO • 4 copies available. 355.49"1793/1815"(42:44)

Mâemoire sur la dispersion de la lumiere / par M.A.L. Cauchy Cauchy, Augustin Louis,-Baron, 1836. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 535.1:094

Clarissimi viri Nicolai-Ludovici de La Caille vita : ad Cl. V. Joannem-Dominicum Maraldi /scriptore Gabriele Brotier. Brotier, Gabriel, 1763. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92LA CAILLE:094

Traitâe des principes et des ráegles de la peinture / par J.-E. Liotard, peinture, citoyen de Genáeve. Liotard, Jean-Etienne, Ã2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

My father : being records of the adventurous life of the late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby /by William Scoresby. Scoresby, William, 1851. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 92SCORESBY

Lords of the sea : a history of the Barbary corsairs /Alan G. Jamieson. "Escalating piracy in the seas off Somalia has led commentators to designate the region the 'new Barbary'. But the seizures and killings made to date by Somali pirates cannot compare with the three centuries of terror unleashed on Europeans by corsairs in the Mediterranean and beyond. From 1500 to 1800, murderous Muslim pirates from North Africa's Barbary coast seized and enslaved more than a million Christians. Lords of the Sea gives us the full history of these pirates, first examining their dramatic impact as the violent seaborne vanguard of an expanding Ottoman empire in the early 1500s through to their break from Ottoman authority a century later. Alan Jamieson explores how the corsairs of Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli and other fortified coastal ports rose to the apogee of their powers, extending their activities from the Mediterranean into the Atlantic, raiding as far as the British Isles and Iceland. Rescuing captive Christians touched everyone in a Western state, from ambassadors obliged to negotiate to rural communities directed by Sunday sermons to contribute to the fund required to buy back their enslaved countrymen and women. While corsair activities declined in the 18th century, it was only a series of naval wars prosecuted into the early years of the 19th by various European states as well as a determined USA that finally ended the menace, culminating in the French conquest of Algiers in 1830. A welcome addition to nautical military history, Lords of the Sea is an engrossing tale of piracy, enslavement and the rise of the great powers."--Provided by the publisher 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1"14/18"

Magnetical investigations / by the Rev. William Scoresby, D.D. Scoresby, William, 1844-1852. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 537.6:094

William Fairbairn: the experimental engineer : A study in mid 19th-century engineering /Richard Byrom "William Fairbairn (1789-1874) was one of the greatest of 19th-century engineers yet he is strangely overlooked. This is the first definitive biography for 140 years. It chronicles Fairbairn's role in the development, in the UK and abroad, of mills, waterwheels, steam engines, boilers, iron steamships, locomotives, iron bridges, cranes and elevators. It provides illustrations for many of today's current areas of debate, as it discusses the sources of Fairbairn's success, the extent of his influence and the reasons for the firm he founded failing within a year of his death. Fairbairn was the leading experimental research engineer of his time; and his Manchester works were an outstanding success, with his trainees producing five professors of engineering and two engineers knighted for their work. Fully researched and profusely illustrated, the book will appeal to all with an interest in engineering history: academics and non-academics alike. The author was introduced to William Fairbairn as an undergraduate in Manchester and went on to gain an MPhil and PhD in Fairbairn studies. He remains fascinated by this remarkable engineer."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92FAIRBAIRN

Mutiny in the Bounty! : and story of the Pitcairn Islanders /by Alfred McFarland. McFarland, Alfred [ca.1884] • BOOK • 2 copies available. 996.2"1790/1882"

Britain against Napoleon : the organisation of victory, 1793-1815 /by Roger Knight. "For more than twenty years after 1793, the French army was supreme in continental Europe. Only at sea was British power dominant, though even with this crucial advantage the British population lived under fear of a French invasion for much of those two decades. How was it that despite multiple changes of government and the assassination of a Prime Minister, Britain survived and eventually won a generation-long war against a regime which at its peak in 1807 commanded many times the resources and manpower? There have been innumerable books about the battles, armies and navies of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. This book looks beyond the familiar exploits (and bravery) of the army and navy to the politicians and civil servants, and examines how they made it possible to continue the war at all. It shows the degree to which, because of the magnitude and intensity of hostilities, the capacities of the whole British population were involved: industrialists, farmers, shipbuilders, cannon founders, gunsmiths and gunpowder manufacturers all had continually to increase quality and output as the demands of the war remorselessly grew. The intelligence war was also central: Knight shows that despite a poor beginning to both gathering and assessment, Whitehall's methods steadily improved.No participants were more important, he argues, than the bankers and international traders of the City of London, who played a critical role in financing the wars and without whom the armies of Britain's allies could not have taken the field. Knight demonstrates that despite these extraordinary efforts, between 1807 and 1812 Britain came very close to losing the war against Napoleon - not through invasion (though the danger until 1811 was very real) but through financial and political exhaustion. The Duke of Wellington famously said that the battle which finally defeated Napoleon was 'the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life': this book shows how true that was for the Napoleonic War as a whole."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1793/1815"(42:44)

Observations sur l'influence des comáetes sur les phâenomáenes de l'atmospháere : adressâees áa M. Arago /par T. Forster. Forster, T.-(Thomas), 1836. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 521.3:094

An attempt to explain a difficulty in the theory of vision, depending on the different refrangibility of light Maskelyne, Nevil, 1789 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:535

The letters and journals of James Fenimore Cooper / edited by James Franklin Beard. Cooper, James Fenimore, 1960. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 820-3

Bligh : William Bligh in the South Seas /Anne Salmond. A biography of William Bligh (1754-1817). The author, an anthropologist, focuses on Bligh's three voyages in the South Seas and the impact of his encounters with the Pacific Islanders. Beginning with Bligh's voyage on the Resolution with Captain Cook (1776-80) during which Cook met his death, the author also examines Bligh's first breadfruit voyage on the Bounty (1787-89) during which the famous mutiny occured and resulted in Bligh's 3,618-mile voyage in an open boat to Timor, and then, finally, his second breadfruit voyage on HMS Providence (1791-93). Detailed notes and a bibliography are provided. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BLIGH

The Bounty : the true story of the mutiny on the Bounty /Caroline Alexander. More than two centuries have passed since Master's Mate Fletcher Christian mutinied against Lieutenant Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty. Why the details of this obscure adventure at the end of the world remain vivid and enthralling is as intriguing as the truth behind the legend. In giving the Bounty mutiny its historical due, Caroline Alexander has chosen to frame her narrative by focusing on the court-martial of the ten mutineers who were captured in Tahiti and brought to justice in England. This fresh perspective revivifies the entire saga, and the salty, colorful language of the captured men themselves conjures the events of that April morning in 1789, when Christian's breakdown impelled every man on a fateful course: Bligh and his loyalists on the historic open boat voyage that revealed him to be one of history's great navigators; Christian on his restless exile; and the captured mutineers toward their day in court. As the book unfolds, each figure emerges as a full-blown character caught up in a drama that may well end on the gallows. And as Alexander shows, it was in a desperate fight to escape hanging that one of the accused defendants deliberately spun the mutiny into the myth we know today-of the tyrannical Lieutenant Bligh of the Bounty. Ultimately, Alexander concludes that the Bounty mutiny was sparked by that most unpredictable, combustible, and human of situations-the chemistry between strong personalities living in close quarters. Her account of the voyage, the trial, and the surprising fates of Bligh, Christian, and the mutineers is an epic of ambition, passion, pride, and duty at the dawn of the Romantic era. 2003. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 355.133"1789"

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