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

Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

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A New Voyage Round the World 9780241413296

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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 Frigate Surprise 9780393070095

There is no more famous a vessel in naval fiction than HMS Surprise, the principal ship in Patrick O’Brian’s much-celebr

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Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River 9781848547865

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Empires of the Sea

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Empires of the Word

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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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A Voyage Round the World, 2 vols. 9780824861308

George Forster's A Voyage Round the World presents a wealth of geographic, scientific, and ethnographic knowledge u

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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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