The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
by Henry Bibb
Connaissances Necessaires A Un Bibliophile. Tome 10 (Generalites)
by Rouveyre-E
Growing up in Botswana in the 1930s & 40s (The Memoirs of "spencer" Ted Nettelton, #1)
by Spencer Enraght Nettelton
Biographical Notices of Officers of the Royal (Bengal) Engineers
by Edward Talbot Thackeray
John Marshall (c.1784-1837) was a naval officer and biographer. He first went to sea at the age of nine, and by the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 had reached the rank of lieutenant. After the war, he started to research the lives of contemporary high-ranking naval officers, some of whose service reached as far back as 1760. These volumes, first published between 1823 and 1830, contain the results of this monumental research, and demonstrate the new 'cult' of the navy in the early nineteenth...