The Bartlett Library holds some 18,000 volumes on our open shelves, having grown by gift and purchase, from the core collection of 6,000 volumes, generously donated by our benefactor J. V. Bartlett Esq., in 2003.
Significant loans from the Cornwall Library Service (including a number of Lloyd’s Registers), together with gifts from many individuals have greatly increased the size and value of the collection since our establishment in 2003, supplemented by the Peter and Julie Newall Library in 2018.
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Life at Sea Part 1 Before the War [A] | Kohler, Lawrie | sociology merchant navy WW1 biography | ||
| Life at Sea Part 2 The War and After [A] | Kohler, Lawrie | sociology merchant navy WW2 biography | ||
| Life Boat Story [The] | Howarth, Patrick | Routledge & Kegan Paul | RNLI history coxswain Grace Darling rescue Goodwin Sands Scptland Cornwall WW2 Ireland disasters | |
| Life By The Fal | Acton, Viv | Landfall | 1-873443-10-2 | Cornwall Falmouth Truro agriculture shipwreck railway tin silver mining shipbuilding fishing migration smuggling |
| Life Changers | Nolan, Pat | Clachan Publishing | Beal Cill Loch Lios inshore fishing Northern Ireland | |
| Life in Cornwall 1939-1942 | Life in Cornwall | Truran | 1-85022-148-0 | fishing china clay air raid |
| Life in Cornwall 1943-1946 | Life in Cornwall | Country Books | 978-1-906789-74-9 | WW2 Cornwall Falmouth Brodie mines minefields patrol boat Mistral coastal command motorboat E-boat evacuation fish canning trawler loss Kurd West Cornwall Fishermens Council Auxiliary Coastguardsmen tidal wave |
| Life in Cornwall at the End of the Nineteenth Century | Life in Cornwall | D Bradford Barton | Cornwall | |
| Life in Cornwall in the Early Nineteenth Century | Life in Cornwall | D Bradford Barton | Cornwall | |
| Life in Cornwall in the Late Nineteenth Century | Life in Cornwall | D Bradford Barton | Cornwall | |
| Life in Cornwall in the Mid-Nineteenth Century | Life in Cornwall | D Bradford Barton | Cornwall | |
| Life in the Age of Exploration | Falkus, Christopher | Readers Digest | 0-276-42125-6 | exploration sociology crew colony slavery Pacific Canada |
| Life in the Viking Age | Healey, Tim | Readers Digest | 0-276-42133-7 | viking Atlantic pagan runes Denmark silver Norway Iceland Scandinavia |
| Life Line | Elphick, Peter | Chatham Publishing | 1-86176-100-7 | WW2 Second World War blockades Japan convoys Merchant Navy Automedon Sweden Milag Malta Talthybius Empire Star Empress of Asia Centaur Khedive Ismail Bombay Dock |
| Life Line | Graves, Charles | William Heinemann | navy WW2 convoy minesweper MTB MTG humour destroyer folklore | |
| Life of a Seaman | Twitchett, E G | Wishart & Co | navy biography admiral Chile Greece Brazil fireship | |
| Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth [The] | Osler, Edward | Smith Elder & Co | Pellew Indefatigable | |
| Life of Arthur Ransome [The] | Brogan, Hugh | Hamish Hamilton | 0-241-11407-1 | Biography Russian Revolution Racundra Swallows and Amazons Pin Mill Ebb-Tide Rusland |
| Life of Francis Drake [The] | Mason, A E W | Hodder and Stoughton | Drake | |
| Life of Frank Buckland | Bompas, George C | Smith Elder | biography Buckland fishing fisheries Scotland Norfolk salmon trout crabs | |
| Life of John Rushworth Earl Jellico [The] | Bacon, R H | Cassell | biography navy tactics pedigree Jutland | |
| Life of Nelson [A] | Lang, John | T C & E C Jack | Nelson biography | |
| Life of Nelson [The] | Southey, Robert | Bickers and Son | Nelson biography | |
| Life of Nelson [The] Vol 1 | Mahan, A T | Sampson Low Marston & Co | Nelson navy Napoleonic | |
| Life of Nelson [The] Vol 2 | Mahan, A T | Sampson Low Marston & Co | Nelson Egypt Sicily Malta | |
| Life of Robert Napier [The] | Napier, James | William Blackwood and Sons | Napier biography shipbuilding Cunard merchant navy | |
| Life of Sir William Parker [The] Vol 1 | Phillimore, Augustus | Harrison | biography navy Parker | |
| Life of Sir William Parker [The] Vol 2 | Phillimore, Augustus | Harrison | biography navy Parker | |
| Life of Sir William Parker [The] Vol 3 | Phillimore, Augustus | Harrison | biography navy Parker | |
| Life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh [The] | Mackaness, George | Farrar & Rinehart, Inc | Bligh Bounty mutiny Cook Tasmania Pandora Otaheite | |
| Life on Low Shore | Anson, Peter F | Banffshire Journal | Second World War WW2 Harbour Head fishing Macduff | |
| Life on the Edge | Bates, Quentin | Hutton Press | 1-902709-11-X | beach launch Hastings Whitby Leigh on Sea Fraserburgh Newlyn North Sea purse seining trawling cockle |
| Life on the Home Front | Life on the Home | Readers Digest | 0-276-42120-5 | WW2 sociology |
| Life on the Humber Keeling to Shipbuilding [A] | Fletcher, Harry | Faber & Faber | 0-571-10723-0 | Humber shipbuilding keel Trent canal biography |
| Life on the Lagoons | Brown, Horatio F | Rivingtons | Venice gondola | |
| Life on the Mississippi | Twain, Mark | Chatto & Windus | ||
| Life on the River | Wayman, Norbury L | Crown Publishers Inc | America Mississippi Missouri history riverboat steamboat packet line barge navigation disaster shipbuilding | |
| Life on the Sea-Shore | Southward, A J | Heinemann Educational | estuary environment tide seaweed algae survey plankton | |
| Life on the Upper Thames | Robertson, H R | fishing ecology weir biology bridge ferry wreck boatbuilding lock wildlife net | ||
| Life With The Castles | Leathem, R B | Avon Books | 1-897960-74-3 | Union Castle South Africa Cape Town Safmarine Baltic Ferries |
| Lifeboat [The}: Courage on our Coasts | Lewis-Jones, Huw | Conway | 978184486277 | RNLI |
| Lifeboat and its Work [The] | Lamb, John Cameron | RNLI | lifeboat RNLI medal rowing lines | |
| Life-boat and its Work [The] | Lewis, Richard | Macmillan | lifeboat | |
| Life-boat Design and Development | Fry, Eric C | David & Charles | 0-7153-6793-5 | lifeboat RNLI rescue design lines rowing |
| Lifeboat Directory | Leach, Nicholas | Ships in Focus | 978-1-901703-30-6 | lifeboats |
| Lifeboat Gallantry | Lifeboat Gallantry | Spink & Son | 0-907605-89-3 | lifeboat rescue medal RNLI list Cornwall IoS shipwreck |
| Lifeboat Handbook | Bonwick, George J | Maritime Press Ltd Wokingham Berks | safety launching boat ticket construction | |
| Lifeboat in Dangers Hour | Howarth, Patrick | Hamlyn | 0-600-34959-4 | RNLI lifeboat shipwreck rowing safety inflatable |
| Life-boat Service [The] | Howarth, Patrick | Pitkin Pictorials Ltd | 85372-075-4 | lifeboat RNLI CI Channel Isles inflatable Yarmouth IoW Cornwall rescue |
| Life-boat Service [The] | Warner, Oliver | Cassell | 0-304-29061-0 | lifeboat shipwreck RNLI medal sailplan |