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August 2016
Seabourn Viking Route Exploration
Andy will be a special interest conversationalist on Seabourn Quest as it travels through Ireland, Scotland, Iceland, Greenland and Canada. He will be talking on the following topics. “The Mary Rose and the Rise of the Tudor Navy.” The Tudors created the standing navy, and in 1510 during Henry VIII’s notoriously colorful reign built the handsome, well-armed Mary Rose. She sank in the Solent in 1545. Discovered in 1971, raised in 1982, and now fully restored, Mary Rose is the centerpiece of her namesake museum,…
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Smithsonian Journeys on Regent Seven Seas Mariner
Andy will be speaking on Explorations and Adventures with the Smithsonian Collections Smithsonian Journeys program on Regent's Seven Seas Mariner. Join him for the "Autumn Delights" cruise, which leaves from New York, New York, and ends in Montreal, Canada. He will be discussing the following topics during the cruise. Books mentioned in his talks can be found here. Innocents Abroad Sail with Mark Twain and the other American "Innocents Abroad" from New York in 1867 aboard the cruise ship Quaker City across the…
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Balch Library
Andy will give an illustrated book talk on "Embassy to the Eastern Courts."
Find out more »Falls Church Military Forum
Andy will be speaking on his latest book, Embassy to the Eastern Courts.
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Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
Andy will be giving an illustrated talk on "Embassy to the Eastern Courts."
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Seabourn: Panama Canal and the Caribbean
Andy will be a special interest conversationalist on Seabourn Odyssey's Panama Canal and Caribbean voyage. He'll be presenting this series of conversations throughout the cruise. Click here for more information on the books mentioned in his conversations. Between Los Angeles and the Panama Canal Innocents Abroad Sail with Mark Twain and the other American “Innocents Abroad” from New York in June 1867 aboard the sidewheel steam ship Quaker City on the months-long, first luxury cruise in American history. See the sights…
Find out more »April 2017
Smithsonian Journeys Cruise on Regent Voyager
Andy will be giving a series of Smithsonian Journeys lectures on the "Pacific Rim and Captivating East" cruise of Regent Seven Seas Voyager. The cruise starts in Bangkok (Laem Chabang) and ends twenty-four days later in Abu Dhabi. His talks will include: 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 on the Malay…
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Smithsonian Associates: River Expeditions
Andy will be giving three talks on United States river expeditions. Salt Water, the 1848 US Navy Expedition to the Dead Sea and the Search for Sodom and Gomorrah. Join Lieutenant William Lynch and his party of volunteer navy men in 1848 on the first and only American expedition of exploration to the Dead Sea. Defying Bedouin threats and epidemic disease, the expedition rowed in two special purpose metal boats across the Sea of Galilee, down the River Jordan, and onto…
Find out more »October 2017
Smithsonian Journeys Cruise on Regent Mariner
Join Andy on a Smithsonian Journeys fall "Autumn Foliage" cruise from Montreal to Miami on Regent Mariner. Proposed topics include: The Greely Expedition. High level disinterest in Washington, and the failure of two annual resupply missions to arrive in 1881 and 1882 condemned Army Lieutenant Adolphus Greely’s remarkable 26-man scientific expedition at Lady Franklin Bay in arctic Canada to starvation, cannibalism, and death. Its plight and the rescue of its six survivors were major news stories in 1883. The press coverage signaled…
Find out more »December 2017
Smithsonian Journeys Cruise on Regent Explorer
Andy will be giving a series of talks as Regent's Seven Seas Explorer sails from Miami through the Caribbean back to Miami on its "Southern Caribbean Charms" Christmas and New Years cruise. The talks are listed below. Click here for books mentioned in the lectures. The Caribbean, Columbus, and the Early Age of Exploration Global wind and ocean current circulation patterns determined where off the continents of the New World early European explorers, searching for the riches of the Orient, would…
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