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A Sailor’s Garland
- £60.00
- Large collection of maritime verse from across the centuries.
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Coming Home (signed)
- £25.00
- Spring, 1947. In a few months' time the British flag will be lowered all over India, and with Independence thousands of those who made their lives there - as planters, civil servants, or in the Indian army - will be returning to England. Among those coming home, as everyone speaks…
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Great-Uncle Harry: A tale of war and empire (SIGNED)
- £70.00
- From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him. The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work. Michael dug out every bit of…
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How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States
- £20.00
- Wry, readable and often astonishing... A provocative and absorbing history of the United States' New York Times The United States denies having dreams of empire. We know America has spread its money, language and culture across the world, but we still think of it as a contained territory, framed by…
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Sea Life in Nelson’s Time
- £10.00
- Written by British Poet Laureate John Masefield in 1905, this lyrical tribute to sailors in the Age of Sail captures the grim reality of life at sea. In the clear, muscular English that made him famous, Masefield breathes life into the misery and barbarity that served as a foundation for…
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Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
- £25.00
- This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the last ship of the Atlantic slave trade, whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways. The Clotilda docked in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in July 1860 Ð more than half a century after the passage of a…
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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
- £25.00
- One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans he thought were slaves. They weren't. Having earlier seized control of the vessel and slaughtered most of the crew,…
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A Sailor’s Garland
- £60.00
- Large collection of maritime verse from across the centuries.
- Add to basket
-
Coming Home (signed)
- £25.00
- Spring, 1947. In a few months' time the British flag will be lowered all over India, and with Independence thousands of those who made their lives there - as planters, civil servants, or in the Indian army - will be returning to England. Among those coming home, as everyone speaks…
- Add to basket
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Great-Uncle Harry: A tale of war and empire (SIGNED)
- £70.00
- From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him. The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work. Michael dug out every bit of…
- Add to basket
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How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States
- £20.00
- Wry, readable and often astonishing... A provocative and absorbing history of the United States' New York Times The United States denies having dreams of empire. We know America has spread its money, language and culture across the world, but we still think of it as a contained territory, framed by…
- Add to basket
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Sea Life in Nelson’s Time
- £10.00
- Written by British Poet Laureate John Masefield in 1905, this lyrical tribute to sailors in the Age of Sail captures the grim reality of life at sea. In the clear, muscular English that made him famous, Masefield breathes life into the misery and barbarity that served as a foundation for…
- Add to basket
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Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
- £25.00
- This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the last ship of the Atlantic slave trade, whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways. The Clotilda docked in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in July 1860 Ð more than half a century after the passage of a…
- Add to basket
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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
- £25.00
- One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans he thought were slaves. They weren't. Having earlier seized control of the vessel and slaughtered most of the crew,…
- Add to basket