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 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