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The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1859 volume focuses on military and diplomatic developments in Asia, and setbacks affecting the submarine telegraph cables. The autumn issues report the latest grim discoveries about the Franklin expedition's fate.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1858 volume contains fascinating reports on the newly laid transatlantic cable, sending data at one hundred words per hour, the Western capture of Canton, and the Treaty of Tientsin.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1857 volume includes articles on the Caribbean, the Baltic, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific region, military reports on the Crimea and Canton, and updates on the Atlantic cable project.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. In the 1856 volume, proposals for canals at Suez and Panama appear alongside continuing discussion of the disastrous Franklin expedition. Transatlantic shipping features prominently, as does a projected telegraph to India.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1854 volume reports the outbreak of the Crimean War, the fate of Sir John Franklin and posthumous recognition of Matthew Flinders. It also describes African colonies and the 'Western Esquimaux'.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1852 volume continues to report on the Arctic and the lost Franklin expedition. China and Turkey also feature, as do the docks, shipbuilding and coal industries of North-East England.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1851 volume focuses strongly on the Arctic, but also features pieces on Russian privateers and pirate slavers, Turkish vocabulary lists and an account of Julius Caesar's expedition to England.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1850 volume reports on the search for Sir John Franklin, the Mercantile Marine Act (1850) and disputes over the Falkland Islands. It also includes a fascinating glossary, 'Turkish for Tars'.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1853 volume has a strong Asia-Pacific focus, with articles on China, the Indus and Melbourne. The last two issues are dominated by news of the traversing of the North-West Passage.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1845 volume focuses on the welfare of merchant seamen, and on China. Other topics include measures against the slave trade, the potato blight and the departure of the Franklin expedition.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1848 volume focuses on the Arctic, including the first search for Sir John Franklin. There are special features on Madeira and a list of all documented hurricanes in the Caribbean.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1844 volume documents commercial rivalries over the building of Birkenhead Docks. Other topics include the calculation of Navy provisions and how Queen Victoria acquired the musket ball that killed Nelson.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1847 volume focuses on Australasia, particularly New Zealand's people and wildlife, but also contains articles on the Arctic and the Amazon, book reviews and an essay on steam engine designs.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1849 volume includes regular updates on the search for Sir John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition, while maintaining its broad coverage of shipping-related concerns in Britain and around the world.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1843 volume contains substantial data-sets on ocean currents, and the resulting 'bottle charts'. Other articles describe an earthquake in the Caribbean and the effects of alcohol on muscle endurance.

The Nautical Magazine, published monthly from 1832, covers subjects including navigation, oceanography, meteorology, exploration, trade, technology and maritime safety. The 1846 volume contains articles on New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, the Baltic and the Tidal Harbours Commission. It also mentions camel breeding in Bolivia, meteorites and a shower of frogs.

A collection of under one hundred and fifty English Country songs.

Includes more than 700 epigrams and epitaphs familiar, unfamiliar, and unknown.

Introduces an anthology of poems in which place is prominent, which ranges not only geographically over the entire British Isles and the whole history of poetry in English, but includes sections on the landscape of France and Italy; and poems in French about London and in English about Sorrento.

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A terrific collection of short stories from bestselling authors such as Sophie Kinsella, Alexander McCall Smith, Kate Mosse and Cecelia Ahern.

A snatched lunch-hour or daily commute doesn''t have to be spent wasted, bored or uninspired. A continuation of the successful "Short Story Reinvented" series, "Eight Hours" is a dynamic cross between the novel and the short-story, showcasing new writing from eight talented authors.Each story follows a different main character for a single hour and, from a fifteen year old girl who is so tormented she can''t sleep, to a man who experiences counselling for the first time, the collection reveals an intriguing mix of powerful snapshots.Modern-day fiction at its immediate and vigorous best.

The Northamptonshire Regiment of 1914 was an amalgamation of the 48th and 58th Regiments of Foot following the Cardwell reforms of 1881. They became respectively the 1st and 2nd Battalions and this should be borne in mind, because in the narrative these battalions are sometimes referred to as 1st and 2nd and at other times simply as the 48th and the 58th. This history is almost entirely taken up with those two battalions on the Western front, though there is a chapter on the 4th (TF) Battalion which fought at Gallipoli and in Palestine, and there are a few pages on the 5th, 6th and 7th (Service) Battalions, all three of which were also in France and Flanders. Of the six VCs awarded, four were won by the 6th Battalion, including an officer from the Bedfords and one from the ASC attached to the battalion, though in the latter case thot is not made clear. Fifty-eight battle honours were awarded and the book is dedicated to the six thousand and forty soldiers of all ranks who gave their lives.The 1st Battalion was among the first to go overseas, arriving in France on 13th August 1914 with 2nd Brigade, 1st Division. The first three chapters are devoted to the battalion and its actions at Mons, the retreat, the Marne, the Aisne and First Ypres. The 2nd Battalion was in Egypt when war broke out, came home and joined the newly formed 24th Brigade of the 8th Division, arriving in France in November 1914. Both battalions remained in the same brigades throughout the war, though for a period of nine months (October 1915-July 1916) the brigade was exchanged with the 70th Brigade of the 23rd Division. The narrative contains plenty of descriptive detail about the fighting with officers casualties named and individuals acts of gallantry recorded. The 1st Division was the one earmarked to carry out the landing on the Belgian coast behind the German lines in July 1917 with Middelkerke the objective for the 2nd Brigade. In the event it never happened but the description of the preparatory training is of interest. Appendices list the battle honours gained by the regiment and also the Honours and Awards, less the foreign ones. There is a good index.