On December 28th, 1583, the Elizabethan merchant galleon Ann Francis, returning from Spain, carrying smuggled gold and silver coins, was wrecked at Morfa Margam, Port Talbot, Wales. Over four hundred…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

The Method of Finding the Longitude at Sea is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1794. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such…

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

Published in 1896, The Union of England and Wales is a thorough history of the legal and political process by which Wales was incorporated into the Kingdom of England. Written…

Intended for professional and amateur ornithologists, libraries and bookshops, this book offers a comprehensive guide to bird occurrence, distribution and history in Wales, pulling together individual county records, and other…