Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea; or historical narratives of the most noted calamities and deliverances, which have resulted from maritime enterprize: with a sketch of various expedients for preserving the lives of mariners. [By Sir J. G. Dalyell.]Vol. I

The HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection includes works chronicling the development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights include the development of language, political and educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of new nations, and European expansion into the New World.