Lectures On Board Regent Navigator New York to Amsterdam May 2019

These books are mentioned in my talks on Regent Navigator New York to Rome May 2019.

Innocents Abroad

The Most Famous Man in America, Debby Applegate

Engines of Empire, Douglas R. Burgess Jr.

Mark Twain Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens, Jerome Loving

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, Justin Kaplan

The Singular Mark Twain, Fred Kaplan

Mark Twain, Ron Powers

Mark Twain: Man in White, Michael Shelden

Lost in the Ice

The Great Influenza John M. Barry

Flu Gina Kolata

Leviathan or the Whale Phillip Hoare

In the Heart of the Sea Nathaniel Philbrick

Moby Dick Herman Melville

Mocha Dick or the White Whale of the Pacific J.N. Reynolds

Leviathan: History of Whaling in America Eric Jay Dolin

The War Against the Seals Briton Cooper Busch

Cod Mark Kurlansky

The Mortal Sea W. Jeffrey Bolster

Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilizations Brian Fagan

The Doryman’s Reflection: A Fisherman’s Life Paul Molyneaux

Maritime Chokepoints and Strategic Waters

The Middle Sea, John Julius Norwich

The Great Sea, David Abulafia

The Path Between the Seas, David McCullough

Pacific, Simon Winchester

The Mortal Sea, W. Jeffrey Bolster

Parting the Desert, Zachary Karabell

The Sea and Civilization, Lincoln Paine

Krakatoa, Simon Winchester

Gallipoli, Peter FitzSimons

Oceans Ventured, John Lehman

Ships, Sailors and the Sea, Maritime Technology and Ocean Commerce

The Mortal Sea, W. Jeffrey Bolster

Cod, Mark Kurlansky

Leviathan, Eric Jay Dolin

Oil and Ice, Peter Nichols

1421, Gavin Menzies

1434, Gavin Menzies

A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein

Sextant, David Barrie

Longitude, David Sobel

The Law of Storms, Lieut. Col. W. Reid

Physical Geography of the Sea, M.F. Maury

Against the Gods, Peter L. Bernstein

Marine Insurance, ed A.B. Leonard

Coal: A Human History, Barbara Freese

Disease and History

The Great Mortality, John Kelly

The Great Influenza, John M. Barry

The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson

Flu, Gina Kolata

The American Plague, Molly Caldwell Crosby

The Cholera Years, Charles E. Rosenberg

Disease in History, Frederick F. Cartwright

Epidemics in History, Sheldon Watts

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Roy Porter

Death in Hamburg, Richard J. Evans

The Other Slavery, Andres Resendez

The End of the Beginning, Michael Kinch

Vaccine Race, Meredith Wadman

Between Hope and Fear, Michael Kinch

Autism’s False Prophets, Paul A. Offit

Bad Faith, Paul A. Offit

Horrible Shipwreck!

Convicts: Transportation and Australia, Michael Bogle

A Commonwealth of Thieves, Thomas Keneally

Fatal Shore, Robert Hughes

In the Hurricane’s Eye, Nathaniel Philbrick

Horrible Shipwreck!, Andrew C.A. Jampoler

The Guns of August and the 1914-15 European Cruise of the Armored Cruiser USS Tennessee

First World War John Keegan

The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark

Woodrow Wilson John Milton Cooper Jr.

Castles of Steel Robert K. Massie

Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War Max Hastings

From Imperial Splendor to Internment Nicolas Wolz

1913 In Search of the World Before the Great War Charles Emmerson

The War that Ended the Peace Margaret MacMillian

Towards the Flame Dominic Liever

Guns of August Barbara Tuchman

The Russian Origins of World War I Sean McMeekin

Dead Wake Eric Larson

The Deluge Arthur Marwick

Over Here David M. Kennedy

The Catholic Kings of Europe: Portugal, Spain and the Contest of Empire

1421, Gavin Menzies

1434, Gavin Menzies

Lord of the Horizons, Jason Goodwin

The War of the Roses, Dan Jones

Imperial Spain, J.H. Elliott

Rivers of Gold, Hugh Thomas

The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Empire, William S. Maltby

Isabella the Warrior Queen, Kirstin Downry

Columbus the Four Voyages, Laurence Bergreen

The Last Days of the Incas, Kim Mac Quarrie

Conquest, Hugh Thomas

The Last Crusade, Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama, Nigel Cliff