OUR OCEANS

For those of us who have plans this summer to sail around the world (or at least a small portion of it), these Bullis books give an historical perspective of  one of our greatest natural resources--our oceans.

A Voyage in the "Sunbeam";  Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months

(First published in 1878  under the title Around the World in the Yacht "Sunbeam")

by Annie Allnutt Brassey, Baroness

Published in New York by John Turtler Lovell, 1881

An Historical Account of the Circumnavigation of the Globe,

and of the progress of discovery in the Pacific Ocean, from the

voyage of Magellan to the death of Cook

Published in New York by Harper Brothers, 1839

A Voyage Round the World in the Years 

1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804;

in which the author visited the principal islands in the

Pacific Ocean and the English settlements of 

Port Jackson and Norfolk Island

by John Turnbull

Published in Philadelphia by Benjamin and Thomas Kite, 1810

So before you leave for the shore this summer, you're invited to stop by the Bullis Room and look through these books (and others like them).  We think you'll appreciate your time at the ocean more, as a result.

FYI: Tomorrow is World Oceans Day. There are lots of suggestions online for observing this special day. Perhaps you'd like to choose one or two to focus on for the rest of this year. (One that we think Nettie Bullis would have liked is reusing plastic shopping bags.  How simple is that?)