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  • Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Ægypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, Æthiopia, and the Abyssines, with all the adjacent islands ... collected and translated from most authentick authors ... by John Ogilby ...

    • Text
    • London, Printed by T. Johnson for the author, 1670.
    • 1670
    • 2 Items

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    Text BKD+ (Ogilby, J. Africa: being an accurate description)Offsite
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    Text Sc Rare+ 916-O (Ogilby, J. Africa: being an accurate description)Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • Atlantische Inseln: Kanarische Inseln, Madeira, Azoren, Kapverden.

    • Text
    • München, K. Thiemig [1972].
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFB 79-13Offsite
  • The United States and six Atlantic outposts : the military and economic considerations / Edward W. Chester.

    • Text
    • Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press, 1980.
    • 1980
    • 2 Items
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    Text JLD 80-1254Offsite
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    Text Sc D 84-151Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Beiträge zur Geographie der mittelatlantischen Inseln / hrsg. von Heinz Klug. -

    • Text
    • Kiel : Im Selbstverlag des Geographischen Instituts der Universität Kiel, 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
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    Text KAA (Kiel. Universitat. Geographisches Institut. Schriften, Bd. 39)Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Uninhabited and deserted islands / Jon Fisher.

    • Text
    • Port Townsend, WA : Loompanics Unlimited, c1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLD 86-3278Offsite
  • West African islands / by A.B. Ellis.

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    • London : Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1885.
    • 1885
    • 2 Items

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    Text BMT (Ellis, A. B. West African islands)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text Sc 916.69-E (Ellis, A. West African islands)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Portugal y las islas del Atlántico / Alberto Vieira.

    • Text
    • Madrid : Editorial MAPFRE, c1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 94-611Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Iles de l'Afrique, par M. d'Avezac ... avec la collaboration de MM. de Froberville, Frédéric Lacroix, Fd Hoefer, MacCarthy, Victor Charlier.

    • Text
    • Paris, Firmin Didot frères, 1848.
    • 1948
    • 1 Item

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    Text BKD (Avezac-Macaya, A. d'. Iles de l'Afrique)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Island going, to the remoter isles, chiefly uninhabited, off the north-west corner of Scotland.

    • Text
    • London, Collins, 1949.
    • 1949
    • 1 Item
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    Text CPW (Atkinson, R. Le L. Island going, to the remoter isles)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • I know an island, by R. M. Lockley.

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    • New York, London, D. Appleton-Century company incorporated, 1939.
    • 1939
    • 1 Item
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    Text CVB (Lockley, R. M. I know an island)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Chili, Paraguay, Uruguay, Buenos-Ayres, par m. César Famin ... Patagonie, Terre-du-Feu et archipel des Malouines, par m. Frédéric Lacroix. Îles diverses des trois océans, et regions circompolaires, par m. le commandeur Bory de Saint-Vincent ... et par m. Frédéric Lacroix.

    • Text
    • Paris, Firmin Didot frères, 1840.
    • 1840
    • 2 Items

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    Text HCO (Famin, S. M. C. Chili, Paraguay, Uruguay, Buenos-Ayres)Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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    Text HCO (Famin, S. M. C. Chili, Paraguay, Uruguay, Buenos-Ayres)Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • South African beachcomber; memories of the people of the shore and the stories they told; sand and dunes and treasure, seabirds and creatures of the sea; and personal impressions of certain islands in African waters.

    • Text
    • Cape Town, H. B. Timmins [1958]
    • 1958
    • 1 Item
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    Text D-11 7719Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Dans l'Atlantique; Sainte-Hélène aux XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles, l'archipel de Tristan da Cunha, côtes de l'Afrique australe, les voyages d'Auguste Broussonet au Maroc et aux Canaries.

    • Text
    • Paris, Hachette, 1912.
    • 1912
    • 2 Items
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    Text KBK (Dehérain, H. Dans l'Atlantique)Offsite
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    Text MSY (Dehérain, H. Dans l'Atlantique)Offsite
  • The ten islands and Ireland, by John Mackay ...

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    • Dublin, Maunsel, 1919.
    • 1919
    • 1 Item
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    Text KBK (Mackay, J. Ten islands and Ireland)Offsite
  • The world revealed - The isles of the sea.

    • Text
    • London. Nelson [1926]
    • 1926
    • 1 Item
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    Text KD (Ridgway, A. World revealed)Offsite
  • The Atlantic islands as resorts of health and pleasure / S. G. W. Benjamin.

    • Text
    • London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878.
    • 1878
    • 1 Item
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    Text WDO (Benjamin, S. G. W. Atlantic islands as resorts of health and pleasure)Offsite
  • Not that far / May Miller.

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    • San Luis Obispo : Solo Press, 1973, c1972.
    • 1973-1972
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 98-2570Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Competing strategies of socio-economic development for small islands / edited by Godfrey Baldacchino and Robert Greenwood.

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    • Charlottetown, P.E.I. : Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, 1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
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    Text JBE 00-223Offsite
  • To India and back by the Cape. By a traveller [i.e. Charles Richard Francis] ...

    • Text
    • Croydon, Anderson, 1859.
    • 1859
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OLS+ (To India and back by the Cape)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The four years voyages of Capt. George Roberts; being a series of uncommon events, which befell him in a voyage to the islands of the Canaries, Cape de Verde, and Barbadoes, from whence he was bound to the coast of Guiney ... Together with observations on the minerals, mineral waters, metals, and salts, and of the nitre with which some of these islands abound. Written by himself ... Adorn'd with several copper plates.

    • Text
    • London, A. Bettesworth [etc.] 1726.
    • 1726
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KC 1726 (Roberts, G. Four years voyages of Capt. George Roberts)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The northern garrisons [microform], the defense of Iceland and the Faeroe, Orkney and Shetland islands, by Eric Linklater.

    • Text
    • Garden City, N.Y., Garden City Pub. Co., inc. [c1941]
    • 1941
    • 1 Item
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    Text *Z BZAC p.v. 61-70 r. 10Offsite
  • Lessons from the political economy of small islands : the resourcefulness of jurisdiction / edited by Godfrey Baldacchino and David Milne.

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    • Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 00-19843Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Quel statut pour les îles d'Europe = What status for Europe's islands / ouvrage collectif réalisé sous la coordination de Jean-Didier Hache ; [Commission des îles, Conférence des régions périphériques maritimes d'Europe].

    • Text
    • Paris : L'Harmattan, c2000.
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 00-15333Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Les îles atlantiques : réalités et imaginaire : actes du colloque / organisé par l'équipe ERILAR ; textes réunis et présentés par Françoise Massa.

    • Text
    • [Rennes, France] : Université Rennes 2, [2001]
    • 2001
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 02-9470Offsite
  • Obras clásicas para la historia de las Islas del Atlántico [electronic resource] / [Alberto Vieira (comps.)].

    • Text
    • Madrid : Fundación Histórica Tavera : DIGIBIS : Mapfre Mutualidad, c1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *WGC-2678 [Computer disc]Offsite
  • Hy Brasil : a novel / Margaret Elphinstone.

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    • Edinburgh : Canongate, 2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 04-1471Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Islands in history and representation / edited by Rod Edmond and Vanessa Smith.

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    • London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 03-15180Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Al di là delle Colonne d'Ercole : Madera e gli arcipelaghi atlantici nelle cronache italiane di viaggio dell'età delle scoperte / Silvano Peloso.

    • Text
    • Viterbo : Sette città, 2004.
    • 2004
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 05-2283Offsite
  • Spain, Portugal and the Atlantic frontier of medieval Europe / edited by José-Juan López-Portillo.

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    • Farnham, England ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate Variorum, 2013.
    • 2013
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFF 14-562Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The four years voyages of Capt. George Roberts [electronic resource] : being a series of uncommon events, which befell him in a voyage to the islands of the Canaries, Cape de Verde, and Barbadoes, from whence he was bound to the coast of Guiney ... / written by himself.

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    • London : Printed for A. Bettesworth [etc.], 1726.
    • 1726
    • 1 Resource

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  • Chili, Paraguay, Uruguay, Buenos-Ayres [electronic resource] / par m. César Famin ... Patagonie, Terre-du-Feu et archipel des Malouines / par m. Frédéric Lacroix. Îles diverses des trois océans, et regions circompolaires / par m. le commandeur Bory de Saint-Vincent ... et par m. Frédéric Lacroix.

    • Text
    • Paris : Firmin Didot frères, 1840.
    • 1840
    • 1 Resource

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  • The four years voyages of Capt. George Roberts [electronic resource] : being a series of uncommon events, which befell him in a voyage to the islands of the Canaries, Cape de Verde, and Barbadoes, from whence he was bound to the coast of Guiney ... / written by himself.

    • Text
    • London : Printed for A. Bettesworth [etc.], 1726.
    • 1726
    • 1 Resource

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  • The four years voyages of Capt. George Roberts [electronic resource] : being a series of Uncommon events, Which befell him In a Voyage to the Islands of the Canaries, Cape de Verde, and Barbadoes, from whence he was bound to the Coast of Guiney. The Manner of his being taken by Three Pyrate Ships, commanded by Low, Russell, and Spriggs, who, after having plundered him, and detained him 10 Days, put him aboard his own Sloop, without Provisions, Water, &c. and with only two Boys, one of Eighteen, and the other of Eight Years of Age. The Hardships he endur'd for above 20 Days, 'till he arriv'd at the Island of St. Nicholas, from whence he was blown off to Sea (before he could get any Sustenance) without his Boat and biggest Boy, whom he had sent ashore; and after Four Days of Difficulty and Distress, was Ship-Wreck'd on the Unfrequented Island of St. John, where, after he had remained near two Years, he built a Vessel to bring himself off. With a particular and curious Description and Draught of the Cape de Verd Islands; their Roads, Anchoring Places, Nature and Production of the Soils; The Kindness and Hospitality of the Natives to Strangers, their Religion, Manners, Customs, and Superstitions, &c. Together with Observations on the Minerals, Mineral Waters, Metals, and Salts, and of the ... with which some of these Islands abound. Written by Himself, And interspers'd with many Pleasant and Profitable Remarks, very instructive for all those who use this Trade, or who may have the Misfortune to meet with any of the like Distresses either by Pyracy or Shipwreck. Adorn'd with several Copper Plates.

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    • London : printed for A. Bettesworth, at the Red Lyon, in Pater-Noster-Row, and J. Osborn, at the Ship, at St. Saviour's Dock-Head, near Horsely-Down, 1726.
    • 1726
    • 1 Resource

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  • Las islas del fin del mundo : representación de Las Afortunadas en los mapas del Occidente medieval / Kevin R. Wittmann.

    • Text
    • Lleida : Universidad de Lleida ; La Laguna : Universidad de La Laguna, 2016.
    • 2016
    • 1 Item
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    Text ReCAP 17-26666Offsite
  • African islands : leading edges of empire and globalization / edited by Toyin Falola, R. Joseph Parrott, and Danielle Porter Sanchez.

    • Text
    • Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2019.
    • 2019-2019
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 19-1357Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • [Composite atlas of charts and views of the coasts of Africa, Arabia, Persia, India, China and South America : including various plans of islands and harbors in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans].

    • Cartographic
    • [London?] : [publisher not identified], [1836?]
    • 1836
    • 1 Item
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    Cartographic Map Div. 19-219Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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  • [Composite atlas of charts and views of the coasts of Africa, Arabia, Persia, India, China and South America : including various plans of islands and harbors in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans].

    • Cartographic
    • [London] : [A. Dalrymple], [1790?]
    • 1790
    • 10 Items
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    Cartographic Map Div. 19-220 [v. 7]Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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    Cartographic Map Div. 19-220 [v. 8]Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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    Cartographic Map Div. 19-220 [v. 9]Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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  • Salt & Storm / Kendall Kulper.

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    • New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
    • 2014
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 15-1069Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Atlantic Ocean, its islands & coasts.

    • Cartographic
    • [Hartford, Conn.?] : [H. & F.J. Huntington], [1830]
    • 1830
    • 1 Item

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    Cartographic Map Div. 21-281Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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  • Shipwrecks in Cape Horn : Isla de los Estados, Magallanes, Mitre Peninsula, Malvinas and South Georgias / Carlos Pedro Vairo ; [English translation by Irai Freire].

    • Text
    • Ushuaia, Argentina : Museo Marítimo de Ushuaia ; Zagier & Urruty Publications, ©2001.
    • 2001
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFF 21-967Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Puertas en el mar : islas africanas atlánticas en el Antiguo Régimen / Juan Manuel Santana Pérez, Germám Santana Pérez.

    • Text
    • Valencia : Tirant lo Blanch, 2022.
    • 2022
    • 1 Item
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    Text ReCAP 22-80924Offsite
  • African islands : a comparative archaeology / Peter Mitchell.

    • Text
    • Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
    • 2022-2022
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ReCAP 22-10243Offsite
  • Puertas en el mar : islas africanas atlánticas en el Antiguo Régimen / Juan Manuel Santana Pérez, Germám Santana Pérez.

    • Text
    • Valencia : Tirant lo Blanch, 2022.
    • 2022
  • The northern garrisons : the defense of Iceland and the Faeroe, Orkney and Shetland Islands / by Eric Linklater.

    • Text
    • Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., [1941], [©1941]
    • 1941-1941
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 940.921 L648Off-site
  • Beiträge zur Geographie der mittelatlantischen Inseln / hrsg. von Heinz Klug.

    • Text
    • Kiel : Im Selbstverlag des Geographischen Instituts der Universität Kiel, 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text QH132.A1 B44Off-site
  • South African beachcomber ; memories of the people of the shore and the stories they told; sand and dunes and treasure, seabirds and creatures of the sea; and personal impressions of certain islands in African waters.

    • Text
    • Cape Town : H. B. Timmins, [1958]
    • 1958
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 968 G8233Off-site
  • Dans l'Atlantique ; Sainte-Hélène aux XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles, l'archipel de Tristan da Cunha, côtes de l'Afrique australe, les voyages d'Auguste Broussonet au Maroc et aux Canaries.

    • Text
    • Paris : Hachette, 1912.
    • 1912
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 997 D366Off-site
  • The best of Lawrence Green / edited by Maureen Barnes.

    • Text
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text DT753 .G73 1985Off-site
  • The teatime islands : journeys to Britain's faraway outposts / Ben Fogle.

    • Text
    • London : Michael Joseph, 2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text DA11 .F63 2003gOff-site
  • The Atlantic islands as resorts of health and pleasure / by S.G.W. Benjamin.

    • Text
    • New York : Harper & Bros., 1878.
    • 1878
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MW80 B46Off-site

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