Royal yachts under sail, Brian, Lavery,

Автор: Lavery Brian
Название: Nelson`s Navy: The Ships, Men and Organisation, 1793 - 1815
ISBN: 1472841352 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472841353
Издательство: Osprey
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Описание: Patrick O'Brien provides the forward to this edition of the most successful Conway Maritime title. This book is the perfect guide to Nelson's Navy for all those with an interest in the workings of the great fleet. The book is eminently readable and is the first single-volume work to cover in such depth this vast and complex subject.

Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the sailing navy the book contains considerable original research to give a clear and authentic picture of the Senior Service as a whole. With a foreword by one of the most successful maritime fiction authors of the current age, the book is also of interest to all those with enthusiasm for the literature based on the Nelsonic-era.

Автор: Lavery Brian
Название: Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World
ISBN: 1472835603 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472835604
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The year 1588 marked a turning point in our national story. Victory over the Spanish Armada transformed us into a seafaring nation and it sparked a myth that one day would become a reality - that the nation's new destiny, the source of her future wealth and power lay out on the oceans. This book tells the story of how the navy expanded from a tiny force to become the most complex industrial enterprise on earth; how the need to organise it laid the foundations of our civil service and our economy; and how it transformed our culture, our sense of national identity and our democracy.

Brian Lavery's narrative explores the navy's rise over four centuries; a key factor in propelling Britain to its status as the most powerful nation on earth, and assesses the turning point of Jutland and the First World War. He creates a compelling read that is every bit as engaging as the TV series itself.

Автор: Lavery Brian
Название: Down to Earth
ISBN: 0648846660 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780648846666
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Can you remember Australia's '70s? The Vietnam War and the Cold War, the politics, the flower people, the music, the hopes?

Do you recall that Member of Parliament who led Moratorium marches against war, wrote liberation books he struggled to sell, helped bring down a Government? Who gave the hungry press a feast of scandals?

And, oh, those naked full-moon "ConFests" with all the Minister's happy hippie mates?

Well, this old hippie was there, and those mates were his mates, all living their stories.

But stick with your own memories, because this old man's telling probably isn't what happened.

The remembering?

Yes, it's the remembering that becomes the problem.

Some history never becomes history. No-one finally remembers what happened. No-one recorded it.

So, this is that record.

Before the remembering stops, because already it's nearly half a century ago.

A hippie rambling.

Almost the missing diary.

Автор: Lavery, Brian
Название: Anson`s navy
ISBN: 1399002880 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781399002882
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Prequel to the author`s 40,000-copy bestseller Nelson`s Navy

Автор: Lavery Rena, Lindsay Ivan
Название: The Art of the Soviet Union: Nudes
ISBN: 1910787868 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781910787861
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Описание: Day Walks in Devon by Jen and Sim Benson features 20 circular routes, between 8.8 and 17.6 miles, suitable for hillwalkers of all abilities, split into five areas: North Devon and Exmoor, Torridge and West Devon, Mid and East Devon, Dartmoor, and South Devon and the South Hams. Features Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 maps and easy-to-follow directions.

Автор: Lavery Brian
Название: A Short History of Seafaring
ISBN: 1465484639 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781465484635
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Цена: 13790.00 T
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Автор: Lavery Brian
Название: Cassini`s Vision
ISBN: 0648846644 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780648846642
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GIOVANNI CASSINI, young Italian astronomer, saw humanity's earliest proofs of what truly is in the heavens. What he observed overturned the fables of the ancients who had tried so hard to explain their stars and planets, and their world.

But the new truths were highly dangerous.

The Cassini of your history books was seduced from Bologna in his mid-life by a lucrative offer from the France's Sun King. Louis had him head a new Paris Observatory, the world's greatest. Cassini rebranded as French, married into the aristocracy and began a long, staid and famous dynasty of French astronomy.

But did you know "Gian" Cassini had an earlier Italian wife? CELIA was a feisty young renaissance artist, scarred, angry, and eager to follow in the steps of her famous grandmother. This "other woman" version of Cassini's life is a far more enlightening tale.

Gian and Celia of Genoa met through family, flirted, loved and trothed. But the trothing was conditional on Celia's insistence that both would forever be fearless in exploring every new fact and uncovered truth, even the unexpected.

That proved harder than either imagined.

In Bologna, Celia's painting fame grew. She neglected simpler challenges in her own growth, ordinary feats like riding, or going to sea. Her artistic purity battled with the seductions of the wealth.

They did both negotiate a new world of lover and mistress, but in that Italy, they needed secrecy, and that alone violated their vow.

Gian's compromises were bigger. The Inquisition had executed Bruno and house-arrested Galileo. To the political and religious interests of the seventeenth century, more "heresy" from Cassini's telescope was not tolerable. Most particularly, the Earth stood still in the Universe, and all else, Sun included, went around. Cassini's research repeatedly said otherwise, and he spent his Italian years suppressing his findings, battling to avoid disgrace or even death.