The Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of Global Sea Trade
A first-class narrative writer blends his unique cartographic and topographic understanding of the key ports of early seaborne commerce. We may…
Twain at Sea: The Maritime Writings of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel Clemens (1835–1910) repeatedly traversed the ocean during his globetrotting life. A keen observer, the man who recast himself as Mark Twain was…
A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks
Stories of disasters at sea, whether about Roman triremes, the treasure fleet of the Spanish Main, or great transatlantic ocean liners, fire the imagination…
