Maritime History

Lectures

Beyond the Horizon: Voyages of Discovery 1500 BCE – 1500 CE
The Spice Route

Books

Berggren, J. Lennart: Ptolemy’s Geography: An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters.
Bergreen, Laurence. Columbus: The Four Voyages
Bergreen, Laurence. Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu.
Bergreen, Laurence. In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire.
Bergreen, Laurence. Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe.
Cervantes, Fernando. Conquistadores: A New History of the Spanish Discovery and Conquest.
Cook, James. The Journals of Captain Cook.
Cunliffe, Barry. The Extraordinary Voyage of the Pytheas the Greek.
De Las Casas, Bartolome. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies.
Dugard, Martin, Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook.
Dugard, Martin. The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success.
Delaney, Carol. Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem: How Religion Drove the Voyages that Led to America.
Dreyer, Edward. Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405-1433.
Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration.
Jarman, Cat. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads.
Hansen, Valerie. The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World, and Globalism Began.
Vas de Camoes, Luis. The Lusiads (Oxford’s World’s Classics).
Jigoulov, Vadim S. The Phoenicians: Lost Civilizations.
Levathes, Louise. When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433.
Levy, Buddy. Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs.
Mackintosh-Smith, Tim. The Travels of Ibn Battutah.
Pangonis, Katherine. Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean.
Polo, Marco. The Travels of Marco Polo.
Severin, Tim. The Brendan Voyage: Sailing to America in a Leather Boat to Prove the Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints.
Sigurdsson, Gisli. The Vinland Sagas.

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