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Despite its title, the Naval and Military Press is not only about wars and warfare. We also stock a wide range of non-military titles ranging from political biographies, journeys of exploration, genealogical research and technological manuals. If you are interested in history in its widest sense, why not check through our every-expanding list, we might well have just the book for you.

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Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 and of the assinniboine and saskatchewan exploring expedition of 1858
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Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 and of the assinniboine and saskatchewan exploring expedition of 1858
Product Code: 9774

A fascinating and beautifully illustrated and mapped account of two expeditions into Canada’s vast and untapped interior in 1857 and 1858.

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lake regions of Central Africa; a picture of exploration
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lake regions of Central Africa; a picture of exploration
Product Code: 9770

Richard Burton’s account of his ill-fated journey to discover the source of the Nile with his later bitter rival John Hanning Speke. A classic of Victorian exploration as colourful as its author.

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Arctic explorations in the years 1853,’54,’55: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin
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Arctic explorations in the years 1853,’54,’55: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin
Product Code: 9778

Following an earlier attempt on which he served as medical officer, these two volumes chart Elisha Kent Kane's second expedition, which he this time headed, to search for Sir John Franklin. Kane was an American Navy surgeon whose books about his various travels caught the imagination of the Ameri...

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Manual of the Natural History, Geology, and Physics of Greenland and the neighbouring regions, together with instructions suggested by the Arctic Committee of the Royal Society for the use of the Expedition of 1875
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Manual of the Natural History, Geology, and Physics of Greenland and the neighbouring regions, together with instructions suggested by the Arctic Committee of the Royal Society for the use of the Expedition of 1875
Product Code: 9777

In December 1874 the Admiralty advised the Royal Society that it intended to despatch an expedition to 'reach the North Pole and to explore the coast of Greenland and adjacent lands.' It asked them to compile a manual of all that was considered useful for the trip and a committee of august member...

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naturalist on the River Amazons, A Record of Adventures, Habits of animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven years of Travel
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naturalist on the River Amazons, A Record of Adventures, Habits of animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven years of Travel
Product Code: 9765

To say that the author's foray in the Amazon was extensive, hardly does justice to the sheer scale of his endeavours. Leaving England in 1848 with a fellow naturalist A R Wallace, he was away for eleven years during which time he collected over 14,000 species of which a staggering 8,000 were new ...

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Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah
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Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah
Product Code: 9769

Legendary explorer RIchard Burton’s own description of his famous 1853 journey in disguise to the Muslim Holy cities of Mecca and Medina - then ‘off-limits’ to Europeans. An enthralling classic by a great traveller and writer.

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Records of Captain Clapperton's last expedition to Africa
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Records of Captain Clapperton's last expedition to Africa
Product Code: 9781

In 1825 Captain Hugh Clapperton set out to explore the River Niger, a task that some twenty odd years previously had resulted in the death of the famous Mungo Park. The River Niger was seen as holding the key to unlocking access to the vast resources of this region and this was Clapperton's secon...

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TESTAROSSA
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TESTAROSSA
Product Code: 10338

In the latter years of Queen Mary's short and turbulent reign in the mid-sixteenth century, England was still on the cusp of acquiring the reputation as a great sea faring nation that would come in the Elizabethan era. Into the hotbed of religious and political turmoil that was England at this ti...

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Narrative of an expedition to the source of the St. Peter's River, lake winnepeek, lake of the woods, etc. performed in the year 1823, by order of the hon. j. c. calhoun, secretary of war, under the command of stephen h. long, u.s.t.e.
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Narrative of an expedition to the source of the St. Peter's River, lake winnepeek, lake of the woods, etc. performed in the year 1823, by order of the hon. j. c. calhoun, secretary of war, under the command of stephen h. long, u.s.t.e.
Product Code: 9779

This narrative was compiled by William H Keating, who was the geologist with Stephen Harriman Long's expedition in the early 1820's to survey the Great Lakes. In two volumes with many plates and maps, this is an intensive study of the area and is noted for the comprehensive commentary about the S...

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CONTEMPORARY SCRIMSHAW
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CONTEMPORARY SCRIMSHAW
Product Code: 10936

Scrimshaw is a technique of stippling and scratching on fossil ivory, horn and bone.Its roots lie in the traditional art of whaling men of the 18th and 19th centuries, but it has developed as a recognised art form.Today, fine scrimshaw miniatures adorn handcrafted knives, jewelry, billiard cues, ...

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