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ST HELENA BRITANNICA: STUDIES IN SOUTH ATLANTIC ISLAND HISTORY

Written by Trevor W. Hearl, Alexander Hugo Schulenburg
Published by Society Of Friends Of St Helena in 2013
ISBN: 9780957491809

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ST HELENA BRITANNICA: STUDIES IN SOUTH ATLANTIC ISLAND HISTORY
Written by Trevor W. Hearl, Alexander Hugo Schulenburg.
Stock no. 1830817
1st thus. 2013. Hardback. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

These papers had previously been published only as typescript leaflets and in small specialist journals. The chapters cover aspects of St Helena's history from its discovery in the 1950s, including sixteenth and seventeenth century visitors and surgeons, East Indis shipping, the island's Huguenots and Baptists, telegraphs, and the Napoleonic period, island merchants, horse racing, Darwin and other natural historians, church memorials, photography and publishing, as well as St Helena's role as a whaling port and coaling station. Edited by Alexander Hugo Schulenburg. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. xxxiv and 341 pages including index. ISBN: 9780957491809. Couple of tiny foxspots to top edge of text block. Inscription in ink to dedication page. Else a clean copy. Black pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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Cover of ST HELENA BRITANNICA: STUDIES IN SOUTH ATLANTIC ISLAND HISTORY by Trevor W. Hearl; Alexander Hugo Schulenburg

Contents

  • Illustrations
  • Editor's Preface
  • About the Author (by the Author)
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 The Age of Discovery and St Helena's 'Man in the Moon'
  • Chapter 2 The Troubles of a 17th Century Surgeon: Francis Moore of St Helena
  • Chapter 3 St Helena's Forgotten Frenchmen: The Huguenot Wine Project
  • Chapter 4 A Fortress Image: the Lambert-Scott Portrait and its Plagiarists
  • Chapter 5 East Indiamen via St Helena
  • Chapter 6 St Helena's Pioneer Telegraph System
  • Chapter 7 The Southern Whale Fishery: St Helena Rendezvous, 1780-1930
  • Chapter 8 How Secure was St Helena in 1815?
  • Chapter 9 Sir Hudson's Headache: The Governor, The Admiral, and Supplies for St Helena
  • Chapter 10 'Derby Days' at Deadwood: Highlights of Horse Racing at St Helena
  • Chapter 11 A Curious Coincidence?: Catherine Younghusband and the Obins Memorial
  • Chapter 12 Saving Napoleon's Soul at St Helena: "What Happened at Mason Stocks House"
  • Chapter 13 Saul Solomon of St Helena, 1776-1852
  • Chapter 14 Richard Prince / Samuel Hopewell & Co., St Helena's Merchants
  • Chapter 15 Darwin's Island
  • Chapter 16 St Helena's Social Revolution, 1834-1869: The Evidence of the Brooke-Scott Letters
  • Chapter 17 The Melliss Family and the Oakbank Letters
  • Chapter 18 Consuls and Consular Agents at St Helena
  • Chapter 19 Longwood Observatory
  • Chapter 20 Commodore Perry at St Helena in 1853
  • Chapter 21 Baptist Pioneers of St Helena
  • Chapter 22 St Paul's Cathedral, St Helena: An Architectural Footnote
  • Chapter 23 Some 'Anglo-Indian' and other Memorials at St Helena
  • Chapter 24 Insects and Origins
  • Chapter 25 Forlorn Fortress
  • Chapter 26 St Helena's Pioneer Photographer: John Isaac Lilley
  • Chapter 27 The Rise and Fall of James Francis Homeagee, 1846-1919
  • Chapter 28 When Penal Reform was on Trial at St Helena
  • Chapter 29 St Helena as a Coaling Station: A Summary of Evidence
  • Chapter 30 In Search of the St Helena Magazine
  • Index