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January 2018

Regent Navigator Los Angeles to Auckland

January 8, 2018 @ 8:00 am - February 6, 2018 @ 5:00 pm
Regent Navigator LA to Auckland

Join Andy on Seven Seas Navigator "Lands of the Gods" voyage for a great trip to Hawaii, French Polynesia and Samoa starting from Los Angeles and ending in Auckland, New Zealand.  He will be speaking on the first segment of Navigator's World Cruise. His talks will include: In Harm’s Way Out of Tinian on July 28, 1945, after a secret mission to deliver atom bomb parts for the attack on Hiroshima, the cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis (CA-35) was torpedoed by a Japanese…

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November 2018

Regent Explorer Rome to Lisbon

November 18, 2018 @ 8:00 am - November 28, 2018 @ 5:00 pm
Regent Explorer Rome to Lisbon

Join me on Regent Explorer's "Taste of Iberia" cruise November 18-November 28, 2018.  I plan to share the following presentations: The Last Lincoln Conspirator.  Flee with John Surratt, Jr., the youngest Lincoln assassination conspirator, across the Atlantic, Europe, and the Mediterranean as he attempted to escape from judgement and justice in 1865-66.  Chased out of Rome, where he hid for a time as a member of Pope Pius IX's Papal Zouaves, Surratt fled from Naples through Malta and across the…

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Regent Explorer Lisbon to Capetown

November 28, 2018 @ 8:00 am - December 22, 2018 @ 5:00 pm
Regent Explorer Lisbon to Capetown

Andy will be speaking on the Seven Seas Explorer voyage "Tranquil Savannas and Sunsets" as she travels along the west African coast from Lisbon to Capetown. Join him for these illustrated talks while sailing the West African coast. The Catholic Kings of Europe: Portugal, Spain and the Contest for Empire.  For more than century after the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 the kings (and queens) of Spain and Portugal, proud royalty of the world’s soon-to-be first global empires, literally split the unknown world…

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December 2018

Regent Explorer Capetown to Capetown

December 22, 2018 @ 8:00 am - January 6, 2019 @ 5:00 pm

Andy will be talking on Regent Seven Seas Explorer as she sails from Capetown to Capetown on a "South Africa Cheer" cruise. Join Andy's illustrated lectures over the holiday season. Maritime Choke Points.  Beginning with the Age of Sail, the geography of the oceans, as well as their winds and currents, channels and canals became important to governments and their merchant fleets and navies.  Even now, 150 years after the Suez Canal, the Cape of Good Hope (once “the Cape…

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May 2019

Regent Navigator New York to Amsterdam

May 15, 2019 @ 8:00 am - May 30, 2019 @ 5:00 pm

Join Andy for a Transatlantic cruise from New York to Amsterdam on Regent Navigator. He will be giving eight talks during the crossing. Innocents Abroad  Sail with Mark Twain and the other American “Innocents Abroad” from New York in 1867 aboard the luxury cruise ship Quaker City into the Mediterranean and back.  See the sights of 19th century Europe and the Holy Land through their eyes while you learn about the cruise and the passengers his book made famous. Lost in the Ice …

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November 2019

Regent Voyager Dubai to Singapore

November 16, 2019 @ 8:00 am - December 6, 2019 @ 5:00 pm

Join Andy for a cruise on Regent Voyager from Dubai to Singapore November -December 2019.  Andy will be giving these presentations.  Skimming the History of the East Indies Companies Rivals for nearly two centuries, the English and Dutch East India Companies were the first modern, near-global conglomerates; pioneering, fabulously successful joint stock companies that together dominated trade, industry, agriculture, and politics across half the globe.  For many decades the companies exercised sovereign rights over vast colonial possessions (deploying powerful armies…

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December 2019

Regent Voyager Singapore to Sydney

December 20, 2019 @ 8:00 am - January 7, 2020 @ 5:00 pm
Regent Voyager Singapore Sydney

Join Andy for a cruise on Regent Voyager from Singapore to Sydney, December 2019-January 2020.  Andy will be giving the following presentations. Singapore in Peace and War The stunning failure of the defenses of “Fortress Singapore” during the first months of World War II in the Pacific signaled the collapse of the allied position in Indochina and the Malay Peninsula.  It also seemingly locked into place Tokyo’s “Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere,” a resource-rich empire spanning East Asia and the…

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January 2020

Regent Voyager Sydney to Auckland

January 7, 2020 @ 8:00 am - January 21, 2020 @ 5:00 pm

Join Andy for a cruise from Sydney to Auckland on Regent Voyager.

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July 2020

Regent Voyager Barcelona to Venice

July 16, 2020 @ 8:00 am - July 28, 2020 @ 5:00 pm
Regent Voyager Barcelona Venice

Join Andy for a cruise from Barcelona to Venice on Regent Voyager.

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Regent Voyager Venice to Rome

July 28, 2020 @ 8:00 am - August 4, 2020 @ 5:00 pm
Regent Voyager Venice Rome

Join Andy for a cruise from Venice to Rome on Regent Voyager.

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