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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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White Sea Peninsula, a journey in Russian Lapland and Karelia
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White Sea Peninsula, a journey in Russian Lapland and Karelia
Product Code: 9788

An appealing description by Edward Rae of his expedition through the White Sea Peninsula and 'the incessant impediments and frequent risks' inherent in such travel in the Arctic region during this period. Including many fine woodcuts and etchings, this book, first published in 1881, is a delightf...

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Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808
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Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808
Product Code: 9787

In this two volume set, bound as one, Robert Ker Porter writes an extensive series of letters covering his travels through these countries in the years 1805 to 1808. Following his training at the Royal Academy he gained a reputation for his paintings which included scenes of battle including Seri...

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Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the atlantic to the pacific; performed in the years 1819–20, in his majesty’s ships hecla and griper
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Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the atlantic to the pacific; performed in the years 1819–20, in his majesty’s ships hecla and griper
Product Code: 9786

This was the first of three expeditions by Parry for the purpose of discovering a route from Greenland to the Bering Strait - the so called 'Northwest Passage' and he achieved a good part of this on the voyage in 1819-20. Travelling in the ships HMS Hecla and HMS Griper, Parry was able to map lar...

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Mutiny in the “Bounty! And the story of the Pitcairn islanders
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Mutiny in the “Bounty! And the story of the Pitcairn islanders
Product Code: 9784

Written in 1884, this book is an interpretation of the famous events so often depicted in print and film. The author, Alfred McFarland, was an Irishman whose calling in the legal profession eventually led to him the position of Judge in Australia. McFarland has drawn upon the many versions of eve...

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voyage of the ‘Fox’ in the Arctic Seas. a narrative of the discovery of the fate of Sir John Franklin and his companions
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voyage of the ‘Fox’ in the Arctic Seas. a narrative of the discovery of the fate of Sir John Franklin and his companions
Product Code: 9783

How the fate of Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition to find the North West Passage was discovered - by Captain M’LIntock, the explorer commissioned by Lady Franklin to trace her husband and his companions. A classic of Arctic exploration.

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Shifts and expedients of camp life
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Shifts and expedients of camp life
Product Code: 9782

This is a wonderful DIY book for the nineteenth century explorer and adventurer, containing as it does the combined wisdom of two such men. Baines and Lord had between them adventured in Africa, Australia, the Crimea and India and offer this book to others who might follow and benefit from the ad...

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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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Yachting in the Arctic seas or notes of five voyages of sport and discovery in the neighbourhood of spitzbergen and novaya zemlya
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Yachting in the Arctic seas or notes of five voyages of sport and discovery in the neighbourhood of spitzbergen and novaya zemlya
Product Code: 9780

Intriguing and delightful 1875 account of sailing the icy waters of the Arctic by wealthy Scots MP turned amateur yachtsman James Lamont. WIll interest all devotees of yachting and polar exploration.

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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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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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