Further Reading

Mutiny! The Court-Martial Documents of the Bounty Mutineers Shapero Rare Books

Mutiny! The Court-Martial Documents of the Boun...

On 28 April 1789, disaffected crewmen took control of the HMS Bounty and cast the captain, Captain Bligh and 18 loyalists adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

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Mutiny! The Court-Martial Documents of the Boun...

On 28 April 1789, disaffected crewmen took control of the HMS Bounty and cast the captain, Captain Bligh and 18 loyalists adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

Layard and the Antiquities of Assyria Shapero Rare Books

Layard and the Antiquities of Assyria

Today we are all too aware of the appalling damage inflicted by ISIS on the ancient sites of Iraq and Syria – the mindless destruction of the wondrous remains of...

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Layard and the Antiquities of Assyria

Today we are all too aware of the appalling damage inflicted by ISIS on the ancient sites of Iraq and Syria – the mindless destruction of the wondrous remains of...

Napoleon's Description of Egypt Shapero Rare Books

Napoleon's Description of Egypt

The extraordinary success of a megalomaniac, an uncharted world, and a team of savant explorers.

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Napoleon's Description of Egypt

The extraordinary success of a megalomaniac, an uncharted world, and a team of savant explorers.

Larger than Life - The Explorer Sir Richard Burton Shapero Rare Books

Larger than Life: The Explorer Sir Richard Burton

Frequently described within his own lifetime as the most interesting figures of the nineteenth century, the explorer Sir Richard Burton was one of the greatest to come out of England.

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Larger than Life: The Explorer Sir Richard Burton

Frequently described within his own lifetime as the most interesting figures of the nineteenth century, the explorer Sir Richard Burton was one of the greatest to come out of England.

Sir John Barrow - Unsung Champion of the Empire Shapero Rare Books

Sir John Barrow: Unsung Champion of the Empire

Civil servant, naval secretary, developer, publicist, settler, author and all-round-adventurer John Barrow was understandably a man of many talents.  Here we take a look at how these skills drove forward...

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Sir John Barrow: Unsung Champion of the Empire

Civil servant, naval secretary, developer, publicist, settler, author and all-round-adventurer John Barrow was understandably a man of many talents.  Here we take a look at how these skills drove forward...

Henry Morton Stanley: 'Bula Matari' Shapero Rare Books

Henry Morton Stanley: 'Bula Matari'

From a workhouse in Wales to establishing one of the wealthiest countries in Africa, the story of Henry Stanley’s life (1841-1904) was as unlikely as anything in Victorian pulp fiction.

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Henry Morton Stanley: 'Bula Matari'

From a workhouse in Wales to establishing one of the wealthiest countries in Africa, the story of Henry Stanley’s life (1841-1904) was as unlikely as anything in Victorian pulp fiction.