These are books mentioned in my lectures on-board Regent Explorer on her cruises Lisbon to Capetown (November 28, 2018, to December 22, 2018) and Capetown to Capetown (December 22, 2018, to January 6, 2019).
The Catholic Kings of Europe Books
Ships, Sailors and the Sea Books
Mapping Africa: European Cartography 1375-Present Books
Skimming the History of the Honorable East India Company Books
Through the Dark Continent Books
The Young Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle at Sea to West Africa Books
Congo, the Miserable Expedition and Dreadful Death of Lt. Emory Taunt, USN Books
From Kisangani to Banana Point by Small Boat Books
Joseph Conrad and “the Heart of Darkness” Books
The Boer Wars, 1880-81 and 1899-02 Books
Embassy to the Eastern Courts Books
The Ocean Cruises of Admiral Zheng He and China’s Navy Today Books
The Catholic Kings of Europe Books
The Catholic Kings of Europe
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
Ships, Sailors and the Sea Books
Ships, Sailors and the Sea
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
Mapping Africa: European Cartography 1375-Present Books
Mapping Africa: European Cartography 1375-Present
The Fortunes of Africa, Martin Meredith
Africa, John Reader
Livingstone, Tim Jeal
Into Africa, Martin Dugard
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, John Hanning Speke
Stanley, Tim Jeal
Through the Dark Continent, Henry Morton Stanley
Congo, Miserable Expeditions and Dreadful Death of Lt. Emory Taunt, USN, Andrew C.A. Jampoler
Global Dominance, David B. Abernathy
The Fate of Africa, Martin Meredith
Skimming the History of the Honorable East India Company Books
Skimming the History of the Honorable East India Company
Sugar, James Walvin
Sweetness and Power, Sidney W. Mintz
Spices, A Global History, Fred Czarra
An Embarrassment of Riches, Simon Schama
The Dutch East Company and the British India Company, Charles River, Editors
Jan Compagnie in War and Peace 1602-1799, C.R. Boxer
Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters, Robert Parthesius
The Dutch Republic, Jonathan I Israel
Dutch East India and Shipbuilding, Wendy can Duivenvoorde
Batavia’s Graveyard, Mike Dash
Merchants in Asia, Els M. Jacobs
The Honourable Company, John Keay
Battles of the Honourable East India Co, M.S. Naravane
The East India Company, Hourly History
The Corporation that Changed the World, Nick Robins
The East India Co., Trade and Conquest from 1600, Anthony Wild
Slavery Books
Slavery
The Half Has Never Been Told, Edward E. Baptist
The Slave Trade, Hugh Thomas
The Slave Ship, A Human History, Marcus Rediker
The Transatlantic Slave Trade, Charles River Editors
The Other Slavery, Andres Resendez
Black Rice, Judith Carney
The Door of No Return, William St Clair
Crossings, Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade, James Walvin
The Zong, A Massacre, the Law, and the End of Slavery, James Walvin
William Wilberforce, William Hague
Final Victims, James A McMillin
The Royal Navy and the Slavers, W.E.F. Ward
Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders, Bernard Edwards
Breaking the Chains, Tom Pocock
Opposing the Slavers, Peter Grindal
Barracoon, Zora Neale Hurston
Through the Dark Continent Books
Through the Dark Continent
Paths Without Glory, James L. Newman
Imperial Footprints, James Newman
Blood River, Tim Butcher
Into Africa, Martin Dugard
Stanley And Adventure Explored, Richard Hall
Stanley The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer, Tim Jeal
Fastest Sailing Ships, David MacGregor
The Galvanized Yankees, Dee Brown
Into the Kingdom of Ice, Hampton Sides
The Voyage of the Jeannette, Lieut. Comm DeLong
Twain and Stanley, Oscar Hijuelos
The Young Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle at Sea to West Africa Books
The Young Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle at Sea to West Africa
How the Scots Invented the Modern World, Arthur Herman
Oxford Companion to Scottish History, ed. Michael Lynch
Dangerous Work, Arthur Conan Doyle
Living in the Shadow of Death, Sheila M. Rothman
Arthur and Sherlock, Michael Sims
The Man Who Would be Sherlock, Christopher Sandford
From Holmes to Sherlock, Mattias Bostrom
The Boer War, Martin Bossenbrock
The Great Boer War, Arthur Conan Doyle
The War in South Africa, Its Cause and Conduct, Arthur Conan Doyle
Conan Doyle and the Parsons Son, George Weaver
Red Rubber, E.D. Morel
Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
The Crime of the Congo, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Case of Oscar Slater, Arthur Conan Doyle
Oscar Slater, Thomas Toughill
Congo, the Miserable Expedition and Dreadful Death of Lt. Emory Taunt, USN Books
Congo, the Miserable Expedition and Dreadful Death of Lt. Emory Taunt, USN
Crime of the Congo, Arthur Conan Doyle
Congo, Miserable Expeditions and Dreadful Death of Lt. Emory Taunt, USN, Andrew C.A. Jampoler
From Kisangani to Banana Point by Small Boat Books
From Kisangani to Banana Point by Small Boat
Congo, Miserable Expeditions and Dreadful Death of Lt. Emory Taunt, USN, Andrew C.A. Jampoler
Congo, Sean Rosison
Congo, David Van Reybrouck
Joseph Conrad and “the Heart of Darkness” Books
Joseph Conrad and “the Heart of Darkness”
The Tsar and the President, Unknown
Living in the Shadow of Death, Sheila M. Rothman
Joseph Conrad Master Mariner, Alan Villiers
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World, Maya Jasanoff
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, edited by Paul B. Armstrong
Joseph Conrad, Jeffrey Meyers
Joseph Conrad, John Stape
Joseph Conrad, Jocelyn Baines
Joseph Conrad, Zdzislaw Najder
The Boer Wars, 1880-81 and 1899-02 Books
The Boer Wars, 1880-81 and 1899-02
The Embarrassment of Riches, Simon Schama
Transvaal Rebellion, John LaBond
The If Man, Chris Ash
The Boer War, Martin Bossenbrock
The Boer War, A History, Denis Judd and Keith Surridge
The Great Boer War, Byron Farwell
The Boer War, Thomas Pakenham
Diamonds and Gold War, Martin Meredith
The Hero of Empire, Candice Millard
The Boy-Man, Tim Jeal
Maritime Choke Point Books
Maritime Choke Points
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
Disease and History Books
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
Embassy to the Eastern Courts Books
Embassy to the Eastern Courts
The Empire of Tea, Alan MacFarlane and Iris MacFarlane
When America First Met China, Eric Jay Dolin
A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein
American Lion, Jon Meacham
Sea of Glory, Nathaniel Philbrick
Embassy to the Eastern Courts, Andrew C.A. Jampoler
The Ocean Cruises of Admiral Zheng He and China’s Navy Today Books
The Ocean Cruises of Admiral Zheng He and China’s Navy Today
Early Mapping of the Pacific, Thomas Suartz
When China Ruled the Seas, Louise Levathes
1421 The Year China Discovered America, Gavin Menzies
1434, Gavin Menzies
Major Themes in History Books
Major Themes in History
Collapse, Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond
Study of History, Arnold J. Toynbee
Clash of Civilizations, Remaking of World Order, Samuel Pl Huntington
The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama