A SELECTED ST HELENA BIBLIOGRAPHY

GENERAL TEXTS

Tony Cross,  St Helena, including Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha
(London, 1980) 

George Drower,  Britain’s Dependent Territories: A Fistful of Islands
(Dartmouth, 1992) 
 
 

GENERAL HISTORIES

T.H. Brooke, A History of the Island of St Helena
(London, 1808) 

Philip Gosse,  St Helena 1502-1938
with a new intoduction by Trevor Hearl 
(Oswestry, 1990) [originally London, 1938] 


OTHER HISTORIES

Edward Cannan, Churches of the South Atlantic Islands, 1502-1991
(Oswestry, 1992)

Ronnie Eriken, St. Helena Lifeline
(Coltishall, 1994)

Margaret Field,  The History of Plantation House - St Helena
(Penzance,  1998).

Dorothy Evans, Schooling in the South Atlantic Islands, 1661-1992
(Oswestry, 1994)

TRAVELOGUES
Kenneth Bain, St Helena: The Island, her People and their Ship
(Bishop Wilton, 1993)

Julia Blackburn, The Emperor’s Last Island
(London, 1991)

Oswell Blakeston, Isle of St. Helena
(London, 1957)

Harry Ritchie, The Last Pink Bits: Travels Through the Remnants of the British Empire
(London, 1997)

Margaret Stewart Taylor, St. Helena, Ocean Roadhouse
(London, 1969)

Simon Winchester, Outposts
(London, 1985)

BACKGROUND HISTORY
John Keay, The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company
(London, 1991)

Richard Grove, Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860
(Cambridge, 1995)


BIBLIOGRAPHIES, ETC.

Alan Day, St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha [World Bibliographical Series, Vol. 197]
(Oxford, 1997)

Brian S. Smith, A Guide to Manuscript Sources for the History of St Helena
(Todmorden, 1995)


NATURAL HISTORY

Philip & Myrtle Ashmole
St. Helena and Ascension Island: A Natural History
(Oswestry: Anthony Nelson, 2000)

Quentin Cronk
The Endemic Flora of St Helena
(Oswestry: Anthony Nelson, 2000)


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