Author: Edward SalmonPublisher: London : Sir I. Pitman
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Life of Admiral Sir Charles Saunders, K.B.
Author: Edward SalmonPublisher: London : Sir I. Pitman
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Academy and Literature
Author: Memoirs of the Life of King George the Third
Author: John Heneage JessePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life and Reign of King George the Third
Author: John Heneage JessePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Captain Cook
Author: Frank McLynnPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300172206
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 703
Book Description
This “thoroughly researched and sharply opinionated” biography presents a nuanced portrait of the renowned 18th century navigator (The Wall Street Journal). The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century, with bold adventurers charting the furthest reaches of the globe. Foremost among these explorers was Captain James Cook of the British Royal Navy. Recent writers have viewed Cook through the lens of colonial exploitation, regarding him as a villain. While they raise important issues, many of these critical accounts overlook his major contributions to science, navigation and cartography. In Captain Cook, Frank McLynn re-creates the voyages that took the famous navigator from his native England to the outer reaches of the Pacific Ocean. Although Cook died in a senseless, avoidable conflict with the people of Hawaii, McLynn illustrates that to the men with whom he served, Cook was master of the seas and nothing less than a titan. McLynn reveals Cook's place in history as a brave and brilliant yet tragically flawed man.
The Academy
Author: The Trafalgar Chronicle
Author: Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1399039032
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Trafalgar Chronicle is the publication of choice for new, scholarly research about the Georgian Navy, sometimes called ‘Nelson’s Navy’; the journal’s scope, however, includes all the sailing navies of the period 1714 to 1837. This year’s volume includes three articles on highly original topics. First, an analysis of the various swords the Duke of Clarence gave as gifts to Royal Navy officers. Second, is a deeply researched piece into early nineteenth-century court records to document the many incarnations of a Royal Navy schooner, Whiting, which, after capture by a French privateer in the War of 1812, became, herself, a privateer and a pirate ship. The last of three articles in this section gives an analysis of what Nelson thought of privateers, especially after the French xebec L’Esperance took his cutter Swift as a prize. To recognize the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Swedish Navy, there are included three articles from a new compilation The Baltic Cauldron, a collection of papers on the Swedish Navy, from 1522 to the present. It includes a piece by Christer Hägg, former captain in the Royal Swedish Navy and an accomplished maritime artist whose painting graces the cover of this edition. Readers will also find outstanding biographical portraits. First, there is a recounting of Charles Cunningham’s daring decisions and steely resolve when he extricated his ship, HMS Clyde, from the heated Nore Mutiny. Another article describes the parallel and contemporary naval service exploits of Admirals Rodney and Kempenfelt, who were actually distant cousins of one another. The final biographical paper takes readers to Bermuda where a twenty-first century archeological dig found the remains of Captain Sir Jacob Wheate, who commanded the ill-fated Fifth Rate frigate HMS Cerberus. Authors in this volume reside in six countries: UK, US, India, Australia, Canada, and Sweden. Through extensive research, they tell dramatic stories of mutiny, piracy, privateering, battles at sea, diplomacy, international alliances, victory and advancement, loss and defeat, all in the quest for sea power. Handsomely illustrated throughout, this issue will make a fascinating and admired addition to any naval library. ‘Well written, well researched, well-illustrated, this is a publication that will both delight and inform. A most enjoyable read.’ - D J Paul in Naval Review
The Dictionary of National Biography, Founded in 1882 by George Smith
Author: Sir Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1526
Book Description
The Church in the modern State
Author: Frederick RogersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1334
Book Description