First Person Singular

There are now nine titles in the series. Here you can read about them, including some
of the fascinating facts behind each one, and some very special excerpts.

Just published

The Buccaneer Explorer William Dampier Edited by Gerald Norris Intelligent and able, William Dampier spent years as a pirate before sailing with the Royal Navy. This is his own account of his remarkable voyages and groundbreaking scientific observations.	Particular Friends Edited by Guy de la Bédoyère "Intriguing insight into the minds of two exceptional men whose contribution to our understanding of 17th-century England is incalculable." SPECTATOR	The Siege of Malta Francisco Balbi di Correggio Translated by Ernle Bradford The story of one of the greatest-ever battles, a few men under the Knights of St John against a huge Turkish armada, written as witnessed by a participating soldier.
Also available
	Brief Lives, by John Aubrey. Edited by Richard Barber. Full edition, in modern spelling, of Aubrey's racy portraits of great figures of 16-17c England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton.
	The Diary of John Evelyn, edited by Guy de la Bédoyère. The diaries of a man at the centre of English social and political life in the 17th century, a friend of Charles II and a member of Royal Society.
	The Loss of the Wager, by John Bulkeley and John Byron. Two contrasting versions of the struggle for survival following shipwreck on the ferociously inhospitable Patagonian coastline. This story formed the basis of Patrick O’Brian’s historical work, The Golden Ocean.
	The Pastons, edited by Richard Barber. Vivid first-hand accounts of life in England at the time of the Wars of the Roses, presented in their historical context.
	The Service of Ladies, by Ulrich von Liechtenstein Extraordinary medieval autobiography, full of the adventures of a knight-errant, and one of the most vivid records of chivalric life.
	The Unconquered Knight, by Gutierre Diaz de Gamez. A chronicle of the deeds of the fifteenth-century knight Don Pere Niño, Count of Buelna, written by his senior lieutenant.

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