A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada 9780674976405, 9780674985704, 9780674985711, 9780674985728, 0674976401

A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada 9780674985728

Edyta Bojanowska uses Ivan Goncharov’s gripping travelogue—a bestseller in nineteenth-century Russia—as a unique eyewitn

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The Voyage of the Beagle

In 1831, the twenty-two-year old Charles Darwin embarked on the Royal Navy ship H.M.S. Beagle as it set off on what was

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The Great Empires of the Ancient World 9780500775738, 9780500295885, 0500775737

A distinguished team of internationally renowned scholars surveys the great empires from 1600 BC to AD 500, from the anc

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The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization 0691190925, 9780691190921

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Shattering empires: the clash and collapse of the Ottoman and Russian empires, 1908-1918 9780521149167, 9780511922688, 9780521195539

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A Privateer's Voyage Round the World 9781783464036, 9781848320666

In 1719, Captain George Shelvocke, a poverty-stricken ex-naval officer, appealed for help to an old shipmate, Edward Hug

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The Russian Origins of the First World War 9780674063204

The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the i

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Empires of the Imagination 9781861978592

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A World of My Own: the first ever non-stop solo round the world voyage 9780713668995, 9781472901187, 9781472901194, 0713668997, 1472901193

On Friday 14 June 1968Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary fi

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Ship of Death: A Voyage That Changed the Atlantic World 9780300199239

It is no exaggeration to say that the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792 and 1793, transform

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