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Roy and Lesley Adkins, The War for All the Oceans. no details, 2006. (On the Napoleonic Wars)
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Captain Cook's Journal, 1768-1771. CD-ROM, Published by National Library of Australia and Australian National Maritime Museum. (1998?) 1899 800 100.
Australian Encyclopedia. In 10 Vols. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1958. Grolier Society of Australia, 1962. Various entries
Joy Adcock, 32-page booklet, Lighthouse Accommodation: Britain and Worldwide. ?
Otto Ahlstrom, 'Swedish Vikings Used
Optical Lenses', The Optician, London, 19 May, 1950., pp.
459-462.
(Cited in Robert Temple, The Crystal Sun)
S. Airlie, The Thistle and the Bamboo: The Life and Times of Sir. J. S. Lockhart. Hong Kong, 1989.
Robert G. Albion, Forests and Sea Power: The Timber Problems of the Royal Navy, 1652-1862. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1926.
Christopher Andrew, Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community. London, Heinemann, 1985.
Caroline Alexander, The Bounty. HarperCollins, 2003.
Kenneth R. Andrews, Trade, Plunder and Settlement: Maritime Enterprise and the Genesis of the British Empire, 1480-1630. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984.
K. R. Andrews, `The English in the Caribbean, 1560-1620', pp. 103-123 in K. R. Andrews, N. P. Canny and P. E. H. Hair, (Eds.), The Westward Enterprise: English Activities in Ireland, the Atlantic and America, 1480-1650. Liverpool University Press, 1978.
Kenneth R. Andrews, Elizabethan Privateering: English Privateering during the Spanish War, 1585-1603. Cambridge at the University Press, 1964.
Kenneth R. Andrews, The Spanish Caribbean: Trade and Plunder, 1530-1630. London, Yale University Press, 1978.
Kenneth R. Andrews, Ships, Money and Politics: Seafaring and Naval Enterprise in the Reign of Charles I. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Roger Anstey and P. E. How, (Eds.), Liverpool, The African Slave Trade and Abolition. Vol. 2. Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1976.
Kenneth R. Andrews, Trade, Plunder and Settlement: Maritime Enterprise and the Genesis of the British Empire, 1480-1630. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Sippanah Arasaratnam, Maritime Commerce and English Power. Aldershot, England, Variorum, 1996. (On matters of colonialism and South-East Asia)
Diane Armstrong, The Voyage of Their Life: The Story of the SS Derna and Its Passengers. HarperCollins, 2001, 483pp. (An Australian story)
Peter Aughton, Endeavour: The Story of Captain Cook's First Great Epic Voyage. The Windrush Press, 1999.
Peter Aughton, Endeavour: The Story of Captain Cook's First Great Epic Voyage. Cassell, 2002.
Peter Aughton, The Fatal Voyage: Captain Cook's Last Great Journey. Arris Publishing/Tower Books, 2005, 203pp.
Pierre Borhan, The Sea: An Anthology of Maritime Photography since 1843. Flammarion, 2009. Distributed by Thames and Hudson.
James Bradley, (Ed.), The Penguin Book Of The Ocean. Hamish Hamilton, 2010, 496pp.
Geoffrey Blainey, Sea of Dangers: Captain Cook And His Rivals. Viking, 2008, 420pp.
John Malcolm Brinnin, Beau Voyage: Life Aboard The Last Great Ships. Thames and Hudson, 1982, 271pp.
William H. Babcock, Legendary Islands of the Atlantic: A Study
in Medieval Geography. New York, American Geographical Society,
1922.*
(Cited in Miles Harvey, The Island of Lost
Maps).
John Bach, A Maritime History of Australia. Melbourne, Nelson, 1976.
John Bailey, The White Divers of Broome. Pan Macmillan, 2001.(On a failed experiment circa 1912 to replace Japanese pearl divers with British Royal Navy-trained divers, a strange experiment in views on racial superiority).
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Robert D. Ballard and Michael H. Morgan, Graveyards of the Pacific: From Pearl Harbour to Bikini Atoll. nd? Remaindered, 2003. (Large format)
Robert Ballard, The Lost Wreck of the Isis. 1990.
Robert D. Ballard with Will Hively, Eternal Darkness: A Personal History of Deep-Sea Exploration . Allen and Unwin, 2000.
John Bailey, The White Divers of Broome. Pan Macmillan, 2001.(On a failed experiment circa 1912 to replace Japanese pearl divers with British Royal Navy-trained divers, a strange experiment in views on racial superiority).
Maurice and Maralyn Bailey, 117 Days Adrift. London, W. H. Allen/Star, 1974/1975.
Sister Mary Albertus Bain, Full Fathom Five. (Mammoth history of Western Australia's pearling industry).
Peter Barber and Christopher Board, Tales from the Map Room: Facts and Fiction about Maps and their Makers. London, BBC Books, 1993. *
Glen Barclay, A History of the Pacific: From the Stone Age to the Present Day. London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1978.
George F. Bass, A History of Seafaring. London, Thames and Hudson, 1972.
Charles Bateson, The Convict Ships, 1787-1868. [Orig. 1959] Sydney, A. H. and A. W. Reed, 1974.
Samuel Bawf, The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake. Allen Lane, 2003, 400pp.
J. C. Beaglehole, (Ed.), Journals of Capt James Cook: The Voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-1771. Cambridge University Press, 1955.
Horace Beck, Folklore and the Sea. Mystic. Connecticut, Mystic Seaport Museum, nd-recent.
Ian Berryman, `Solomon Levey, Thomas Peel, and the Founding of the Swan River Colony', Journal of the Australian Jewish Historical Society, Volume 10, Part 6, 1989., pp. 463-475.
G. Bhagat, 'Americans and American Trade in India, 1784-1814', The American Neptune, Vol. 46, No. 1, 1986., pp. 6-15.
Leonard Bickel, Shackleton's Forogtten Argonauts. South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1982.
Geoffrey Blainey, The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History. Melbourne, Sun Books, 1966.
George Blake, Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1760-1966. London, Printed by Lloyd's Register of Shipping, nd? [1960?]
George Blake, Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1760-1966. London. Printed by Lloyd's Register of Shipping. nd? [1960?]
W. Jeffrey Bolster, Black Jacks: African-American Seamen in the Age of Sail. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, nd-recent/1990s?.
Douglas Botting (Ed.), and the Editors of Time-Life Books, The Seafarers: The Pirates. Alexandria, Virginia, Time-Life Books, 1978., pp. 100ff on Kidd.
Hyacinthe de Bougainville, (Translated and edited by Marc Serge Riviere), The Governor's Noble Guest: Hyacinthe de Bougainville's Account of Port Jackson, 1825. Melbourne University Press, 1998-1999.
Fernand Brandel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. Vol. 1. (Translated by Sian Reynolds) Sydney, Perennial Library, Harper and Row, 1960.
J. A. Brendon, Great Navigators and Discoverers. London, George Harrap and Co., 1929. (Treats explorers, Magellan, Sebastian Cabot, Richard Chancellor, Raleigh, Drake, Sir John Hawkins (Chapter X1, Henry Hudson, Sir Henry Morgan and William Dampier.)
Anthony J. Brown, Ill-starred Captains: Flinders and Baudin. Crawford House, 2001, 512pp.
Lloyd A. Brown, The Story of Maps.
Boston, Little, Brown, 1949. *
(Cited in Miles
Harvey, The Island of Lost Maps).
John Bruce, Annals of the Honourable East India Company. Three Vols. London, Court of Directors of the East India Company, 1810.
Jaap R. Bruijan and Femme S. Gaastra, Ships, Sailors and Spices: East India Companies and Their Shipping in the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Amsterdam, Neha, 1993.
Paul Brunton, Matthew Flinders; Personal Letters From An Extraordinary Life. March, 2002.
B. R. Burg, Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth Century Caribbean. New York University Press, 1995 edition.
James Burney, History of the Buccaneers of America. London, Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1891. (Reprint of 1816 edition.)
Jane H. Buxton et al, (Eds.), Islands Lost In Time. nd? Remaindered, 2003.
Charles Campbell, The Intolerable Hulks: British Shipboard Confinement, 1776-1857. Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1994.
J. J. A. Campos, History of the Portuguese in Bengal. London/Calcutta, Butterworth and Co., 1919.
Daniel Charles, Lighthouses of the Atlantic. Cassell Illustrated, distributed by Allen and Unwin, ?
E. Keble Chatterton, The Mercantile Marine. London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1923.
E. Keble Chatterton, Ventures and Voyages. London, Longmans Green, 1928.
K. N. Chaudhuri, The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660-1760. London, Cambridge University Press, 1978.
K. N. Chaudhuri, The English East India Company: The Study of an Early Joint-Stock Company, 1600-1640. London, Frank Cass, 1965.
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K. N. Chaudhuri, 'The English East India Company's Shipping, (c.1660-1760)', in Jaap R. Bruijan and Femme S. Gaastra, Ships, Sailors and Spices: East India Companies and Their Shipping in the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Amsterdam, Neha, 1993.
Tan Chung, 'The Britain-China-India trade triangle, 1771-1840', The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. 11, No. 4, December 1974., pp. 411-431.
Glynn Christian, Fragile Paradise: The Discovery of Fletcher Christian, Bounty Mutineer. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1982.
Warwick Clay, South Pacific Anchorages. St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, England, Imray Laurie Norrie and Wilson, 1996. http://www.imray.com
Danielle Clode, Killers in Eden. Allen and Unwin, 2002, 190pp. (Whaling at Twofold Bay, NSW)
Frank Clune, The Viking of Van Diemen's Land: The Stormy Life of Jorgen Jorgenson. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1954.
Austin Coates, Macao and the British, 1637-1842: Prelude to Hong Kong. Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1988.
Peter Wilson Coldham, The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988.
Peter Wilson Coldham, Emigrants in Chains. Phoenix Hill, Far Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire, Allan Sutton, 1992.
Maurice Collis, British Merchant Adventurers. London, William Collins, 1942.
Maurice Collis, Siamese White. London, Faber, 1935. ( On Samuel White's depredations in 1697 in Siam)
Columbus, (Trans by Oliver Dunn and James E. Kelley Jr.), The
Dairo of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493.
Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. *
(Cited
in Miles Harvey, The Island of Lost Maps).
Cook - Author name mislaid, Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook. Allen and Unwin, 2001.
Compilation/Paul Brunton, Matthew Flinders: Personal Letters from an Extraordinary Life. Horden House with State Library of NSW, 2002, 262pp.
Julian Corbet, The Success of Drake. 1900.
Howard Corning, (Ed.), "Sullivan Dorr: An Early China Merchant", Essex Institute Historical Collections, 78, 1942., pp. 158-175.
Nicholas Crane, Mercator: The Man Who Mapped The Planet. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2002, 348pp.
Noel Crusz, The Cocos Island Mutiny. Fremantle Arts Centre, 2000-2001, 248pp. (A rare case of mutiny, on the night of 8 May, 1942 on an atoll in the Indian Ocean. Cocos Island also Keeling Islands)
John S. Cumpston, Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Sydney, 1788-1825. Canberra, Roebuck, 1963-1964.
C. H. Currey, The Transportation, Escape and Pardoning of Mary Bryant. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1963.
Russell Earls Davis, Bligh in Australia. Woodslane Press, 2011, 242pp.
John Dunmore, Mrs Cook's Book of Recipes for Mariner's in Distant Seas. No details, 2006. (C18th recipes for mariners - as someone might have put them together, possibly. Try pigeons, dog, oyster loaves, fried celery, turtle soup and stewed albatross)
Joan Druett, Island of the Lost: A Harrowing True Story of Shipwreck, Death and Survival on a Godforsaken Island at the Edge of the World. Allen and Unwin, 2008, 304pp.
James Delgado, Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet. Bodley Head, 2009, 240pp.
Andrew Darby, Harpoon. Allen and Unwin, 2007, 296pp. (On history of whaling)
W. J. Dakin, Whalemen Adventurers in Southern Waters. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1977. [Angus and Robertson Non-Fiction Classics Edition]
William Dampier, (Edited, with Introduction, Notes and Illustrative Documents, by James A. Williamson), A Voyage to New Holland. London, The Argonaut Press, 1939.
William Dampier, (With an Introduction and Notes by Clennell Wilkinson), Voyages and Discoveries. London, The Argonaut Press, 1931.
Mike Dash, Batavia's Graveyard. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 202, 398pp. (On the September 1629 wreck of the Dutch ship, Batavia on the West Australian coast)
Ralph Davis, The Rise of the English Shipping Industry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. London, Macmillan, 1962.
Stephen Davies and Elaine Morgan, Cruising Guide to South East Asia. St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, England, Imray Laurie Norrie and Wilson, 1999. Vol. 1 for South China Sea, Philippines, Gulf of Thailand to Singapore. Vol. 2 for Papua-New Guinea, Indonesia, Singapore and the Malacca Strait to Phuket.
Marele Day, Mrs Cook: The Real and Imagined Life of the Captain's Wife. Allen and Unwin, 2002, 356pp.
Gavan Daws, A Dream of Islands: Voyages of Discovery in the South Seas. Brisbane, Jacaranda, 1980.
Helmut de Terra, Humboldt: The Life and Times of Alexander von
Humboldt, 1769-1859. New York, Alfred Knopf, 1955. *
(Cited
in Miles Harvey, The Island of Lost Maps).
Daniel Defoe (Edited by Manuel Schonhorn), A General History of the Pirates. London, J. M. Dent and Sons, 1972.
L. Dermigny, La Chine et l'Occident, Le Commerce a Canton au XVIII siecle, 1719-1833. Paris, 1964.
Marion Diamond, The Sea Horse and the Wanderer: Ben Boyd in Australia. Carlton, Victoria, Melbourne University Press, 1988.
Anthony Dickinson, 'Some Aspects of the Origin and Implementation of the Eighteenth Century Falkland Islands Sealing Industry', International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1990., pp. 33-68.
Jacques M. Downs, `American Merchants and the China Opium Trade, 1800-1840', Business History Review, 42.4, Winter 1968., pp. 418-442.
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Joan Druett, Island of the Lost: A Harrowing True Story of Shipwreck, Death and Survival on a Godforsaken Island at the Edge of the World. Allen and Unwin, 2007, 248pp.
Foster Dulles, The Old China Trade. London, Macdonald and Jane's, 1974.
Foster Rhea Dulles, The Old China Trade. Boston. Houghton Mifflin. 1930.
John Dunmore, French Explorers in the Pacific. Two Vols. London, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1965-1969.
Edward and Maryse Duyker, (Eds.), Bruny d'Encasteaux. Miegunyah Press, 2001, 392pp.
Arabella Edge, The Company: The Story of a Murderer. Picador, 2000, 371pp. (The latest in a line of fictions on the Dutch ship Batavia aground on the West Australian coast, 4 June, 1629, on Wallabi Reefs.
Hugh Edwards, Treasures of the Deep: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Captain Mike Hatcher. HarperCollins, 2000.
Hugh Edwards, Port of Pearls, 1983. (On Broome, Western Australia and its pearling industry)
Philip Edwards, Sir Walter Raleigh. 1953.
William Eisler, The Furthest Shore: Images of Terra Australis
from the Middle Ages to Captain Cook. Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1995. (The Portuguese quietly discovered Australia)
*
(Cited in Miles Harvey, The Island of Lost
Maps).
Richard Ellis, The Empty Ocean: Plundering the World's Marine Life. Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2003, 367pp.
A. Roger Ekirch, Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1987.
Roger A. Ekirch, 'Great Britain's Secret Convict Trade to America, 1783-1784', American Historical Review, Vol. 89, No. 5, December 1984., pp. 1285-1291.
John Esquemeling, Bucaniers of America. London, 1684.
Miriam Estensen, Discovery: The Quest For The Great South Land. Allen and Unwin, 1998.
Miriam Estensen, The Life of Matthew Flinders. Allen and Unwin, 2002, 538pp.
Peter Fitzsimons, Batavia. William Heinemann, 2011, 490pp.
The Great Southern Land becomes a fantasy-utopia in Gabriel de Foigny, The Southern Land, Known. (Translated by David Fausett.) Syracuse University Press, 1993.
J. K. Fairbank, Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast, 1842-1854. Harvard, 1953.
Tim Flannery, The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner. Boston, Mass., Atlantic Monthly Press, nd-recent.
Tim Flannery, (Ed.), Terra Australis. Text, 2000. (Matthew Flinder's adventures as he is the first to circumnavigate Australia)
Flinders - Matthew - Compilation, Matthew Flinders: Personal Letters from an Extraordinary Life. Horden House with State Library of NSW, 2002, 262pp.
Herbert J. Fleure, The Way of the Sea. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1929.
Michael Flynn, The Second Fleet: Britain's Grim Convict Armada of 1790. Sydney, Library of Australian History, 1993.
Michael Flynn, Settlers and Seditionists: The People of the Convict Ship Surprize, 1794. Sydney, Angela Lind, 1994.
W. Foster, England's Quest of Eastern Trade. London, Adam and C. Black, 1966.
Tom Frame, The Shores of Gallipoli: Naval Aspects of the Anzac Camapign. Hale and Iremonger, 2000.
Steven Frimmer, Neverland: Fabled Places and Fabulous Voyages
of History and Legend. New York, Viking Press, 1976. *
(Cited
in Miles Harvey, The Island of Lost Maps).
Alan Frost, The Voyage of the Endeavour: Captain Cook and the Discovery of the Pacific. Allen and Unwin, nd?
Alan Frost, Convicts and Empire: A Naval Question, 1776-1811. Oxford University Press, 1980.
Alan Frost, Arthur Philip, 1738-1814: His Voyaging. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1987.
Alan Frost, Botany Bay Mirages: Illusions of Australia's Convict Beginnings. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1994.
Alan Frost, The Precarious Life of James Mario Matra: Voyager with Cook, American Loyalist: Servant of Empire. Melbourne, The Miegunyah Press/Melbourne University Press, 1995.
Alan Frost and R. J. B. Knight, (Eds.), The Journal of Daniel Paine, 1794-1797. Sydney, Library of Australian History, 1982.
Holden Furber, Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600-1800. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, c.1976.
Holden Furber, (Edited by Rosane Rocher), Private Fortunes and Company Profits in the India Trade in the Eighteenth Century. ??? Published 1998.
Holden Furber, 'The Beginnings of American Trade with India, 1784-1812', The New England Quarterly, June, 1938., pp. 235-265.
Holden Furber, `The United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies, 1783-1796', ECHR, 10, (2), November 1940., pp. 138-147.
Holden Furber, John Company at Work. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1948.
Holden Furber, `American Trade', New England Quarterly, June 1938, pp. 255-256.
Jennifer Gell, In Bligh's Hand. Canberra, National Library of Australia, 2011, 234pp.
Frank Goddio, Egypt's Sunken Treasures. No details, 2006. (Results of twenty years of French research especially near Alexandria)
Antonie Galvano, The Discoveries of The World. Amsterdam/New York, Di Capo Press, 1969. (Galvano was governor of Ternante, chief island of the Malucos, Indonesia.) (Translated by Richard Hakluyt and dedicated to Sir Robert Cecil.)
Brian Gardner, The East India Company. London, Rupert Hart Davis, 1971.
Aniruddh Singh Gaur, Harappan Maritime Legacies of Gujarat. New Delhi, Asian Pub., 2000. (Deals with maritime aspects of Indus civilization 300BC to 1500BC in Gujarat Province.)
Alex S. George, William Dampier in New Holland, Australia's First Natural Historian. Blooming Books, 171pp., 1999.
James R. Gibson, Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and China Goods: The Maritime Fur Trade of the Northwest Coast, 1785-1841. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1992. Paperback edition of 1999.
Mollie Gillen, The Founders of Australia: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet. With appendices by Yvonne Browning, Michael Flynn, Mollie Gillen. Sydney, Library of Australian History, 1989.
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Richard Goldstein, The Epic Rescue of the Andrea Doria. 2001.
John Goodman, The Rattlesnake. Faber, 2005, 357pp. (On HMS Rattlensake mapping Australia's Great Barrier Reef)
Glenn S. Gordinier, 'Early American trade with India: taking an observation', The American Neptune, Vol. 45, No. 3, 1985., pp. 153-166.
John Goss, The Mapmaker's Art: An Illustrated History of
Cartography. Stokie, Illinois, Rand McNally, 1993.*
(Cited
in Miles Harvey, The Island of Lost Maps).
Barry Gough, 'William Bolts and the Austrian attempt to establish an Eastern Empire', pp. 75-80 in John Hardy and Alan Frost, (Eds.), European Voyaging Towards Australia. Canberra, Australian Academy of the Humanities, Occasional Paper No. 8, 1990.
W. G. Gosling, The Life of Sir Humphrey Gilbert. London, 1911.
Robert Freke Gould, Military Lodges 1732-1899: The Apron and the Sword, or, Freemasonry Under Arms, being an Account of Lodges in Regiments and Ships of War and of famous soldiers and sailors (of all countries) who have belonged to the society. London, Gale and Polden, 1899.
Michael Greenberg, British Trade and the Opening of China, 1800-1842. Cambridge University Press, 1951.
Sir Percival Griffiths, A Licence To Trade: The History of the English Chartered Companies. London, Ernest Benn, 1974.
Sir Arthur Grimble, Pattern of Islands. John Murray, 1952. (On the Gilbert Islands, Pacific Ocean)
E. M. Gull, British Economic Interest in the Far East. London, Oxford University Press, 1943.
B. K. Gupta, Sirajuddaullah and the East India Company, 1756-1757: Background to the Foundation of British Power in India. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1966.
Ashin Das Gupta, 'Trade and politics in eighteenth century India', pp. 181-244 in D. S. Richards, (Ed.), Islam and the Trade of Asia. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1970.
Ashin Das Gupta and M. N. Pearson, India and the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800. Calcutta, Oxford University Press, 1987.
Alan Gurney, The Race to the White Continent: Voyages to the Antarctic. W. W. Norton, 2002, 320pp.
Peter Heller, The Whale Warriors. HarperCollins, 2008, 3200pp. (Japanese whaling today ... do you have a problem with that?)
K. R. Haellquist, (Ed.), Asian Trade Routes. London, Curzon Press, 1991.
Richard Hall, Empires of the Monsoon: A History of the Indian Ocean And Its Invaders. Harper/Collins, 1997.
Stephen S. Hall, Mapping the Next Millennium: The Discovery of
New Geographies. New York, Random House, 1992.*
(Cited
in Miles Harvey, The Island of Lost Maps).
Josef Hamel, England and Russia; comprising The Voyages of John Tradescant The Elder, Sir Hugh Willoughby, Richard Chancellor, Nelson and others, to the White Sea. London, Richard Bentley, 1854. (Translated by John Studdy Leigh)
P. E. J. Hammer, `New Light on the Cadiz Expedition of 1596', pp. 182-202, Historical Research: The Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Vol. 70, No. 172, June 1997.
Neil Hanson, The Custom Of The Sea. Doubleday, 1999. (About cannibalism at sea)
Neil Hanson, The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True History of the Spanish Armada. Doubleday, 2004, 571pp.
Charles Hapgood, Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings. 1966.
Charles Hapgood, Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age. Turnstone Books, 1979. (A maritime power is based on Antarctica before 4000BC) (Hapgood also writes, Earth's Shifting Crust, 1959; and The Path of the Pole on moving tectonic plates)
Freda Harcourt, 'Black Gold: P&O and the Opium Trade, 1847-1914', International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 6, No. 1, June 1994., pp. 1-83.
Charles Hardy and Charles Horatio Hardy, Ships Employed in the East India Company Service, 1707-1810. [citation mislaid]
John Hardy and Alan Frost, (Eds.), European Voyaging Towards Australia. Canberra, Australian Academy of the Humanities, Occasional Paper No. 8, 1990.
C. H. Haring, The Buccaneers in the West Indies of the XVII Century. London, 1910.Notes, Dunn, Sugar and Slaves, pp. 20-21
John Harland, Seamanship in the Age of Sail.
C. Hartley-Grattan, The Southwest Pacific to 1900: A Modern History: Australia - New Zealand - The Islands - Antarctica. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan, 1963.
John B. Hattendorf, (Ed.), Maritime History Vol. 1: The Age of Discovery. Malabar, Florida, Krieger Pub. Co., 1996.
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Miles Harvey, The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime. Phoenix, 2002, 405pp. (On an outstanding map-thief Gilbert Bland, operating 1995)
David T. Hawkings, Bound for Australia. Sydney, Library of Australian History, 1988.
Herbert Heaton, 'The American Trade', [after 1786], pp. 194-226 in C. Northcote Parkinson, (Ed.), The Trade Winds: A Study of British Overseas Trade during the French Wars, 1793-1815. London, Allen and Unwin, 1948.
Thomas Farel Heffernan, Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock. Bloomsbury, 2002, 280pp.
Rod Heikell, Indian Ocean Cruising Guide. St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, England, Imray Laurie Norrie and Wilson, England, 1999.
James Henderson, Sent Forth A Dove: Discovery of the Duyfken. University of Western Australia Press. Published 1998-1999?
Thor Heyerdahl, Early Man and the Ocean: The Beginning of Navigation and Seaborne Civilizations. London, Allen and Unwin, 1978.
Thor Heyerdahl, The Maldives Mystery. nd? (Attempts to explain ancient history of The Maldives).
Thor Heyerdahl, In The Footsteps of Adam: An Autobiography. Little, Brown and Co. 2000.
Peter Hessler, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze. John Murray, 2002, 402pp.
Francis X. Hezel, 'From Conversion to Conquest: the early Spanish mission in the Marianas', Journal of Pacific History, Vol. 17, No. 3, July 1982., pp. 115-137.
Colin Jack-Hinton, The Search for the Islands of Solomon, 1567-1838. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1969.
Brian Hicks and Schuyler Kropf, Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine. 2002.
Melinda Hinkson with photographs by Alana Harris, Aboriginal Sydney: A Guide to Important Places of the Past and Present. Aboriginal Studies Press, 2001(?).
R. W. K. Hinton, The Eastland Trade and the Common Weal in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1959., pp. 1624ff.
R. Hodgkinson, Eber Bunker. Canberra, Roebuck, 1975.
Robert Holden, Orphans of History: The Forgotten Children of the First Fleet. Text, 2000.
D. Hollett, Fast Passage to Australia: The History of the Black Ball, Eagle and White Star lines of Australian Packets. London, Fairplay Publications, 1986.
Marsden Horden, King of the Australian Coast: The Work of Phillip Parker King in the Mermaid and Bathurst, 1817-1822. Melbourne University Press, 441pp.
Miles Horden, Voyaging the Pacific: In Search of the South. John Murray, 2002, 241pp.
Marsden Horden, King of the Australian Coast. Melbourne University Press, 2004. (On Philip Parker King, nautical surveyor of Australia, who spent the last stages of his life in Tamworth NSW, Australia)
Frank Horner, Looking for La Perouse: D'Entrecasteaux in Australia and the South Pacific, 1792-1793. The Miengunyah Press (Melbourne), 1996, 318pp.
Tony Horwitz, Into The Blue: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before. Bloomsbury, 2002, 480pp.
David Howarth, Tahiti: A Paradise Lost. London, Harvill Press, 1983.
F. W Howay, A List of the Trading Vessels in the Maritime Fur Trade, 1785-1825. Kingston, Ontario, Limestone Press, 1973.
K. R. Howe, Where the Waves Fall: A New South Sea Islands History from First Settlement to Colonial Rule. Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1984.
George Fadlo Hourani, Arab Seafaring In The Indian Ocean In Ancient And Early Medieval Times. Beirut, Khayats, 1963.
Vincent K. Hubbard, Swords, Ships and Sugar: A History of Nevis to 1900. Edn 4. Premiere Editions International, 1995. Email to [Philadelphia?]: gresick@peak.org
Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868. London, Pan Books/Collins, 1988.
Peter Hulme, Colonial Encounters: Europe and the native Caribbean, 1492-1797. London, Methuen, 1986.
Roland Huntford, Shackleton. Hodder and Stoughton, 1986, 774pp.
Ion Idriess, Forty Fathoms Deep. (On Broome, WA, and its pearling industry).
Margaret Irwin (pseud), The Great Lucifer: A Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh. London, Chatto and Windus, 1966.
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Chinese discovered Australia, 350 years before Captain Cook - The
Chinese reached the so-called Magellan Straits 60 years before
Magellan was even born. The Chinese discovered the vital secret of
Longitude 300 years before Harrison did.” (Gavin Menzies has
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For his website go to: www.1421.tv/
See also: Dennis De Witt,
'Cheng Ho and the Ming Treasure Fleets', Dutch Courier,
February 2003., page 20 and 29. (The author is from Malacca, of Dutch
descent, and maintains interest in the Dutch influence in Malaysia.
Check a Dutch Descendants website:
http://www.geocities.com/dutchdescendants/
(For a non-detailed debunking of Menzies' 1421 by an Australian, see article, '1421: The Year China Didn't Discover Terribly Much', by Peter Barrett, (vice-president of Canberra Skeptics), The Skeptic, Vol. 25, No. 3, Spring 2005., pp. 48-51. - An Australian magazine)
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*
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Contra to Gavin Menzies' 1421 is Philip Rivers, (Capt.), “1421” Voyages: Fact and Fantasy. [monograph No 11.] 2004. Malaysia, first edition. ISBN 9834 055641. (Rebutting Menzies on three fronts: re documents, nautical and geographical aspects, and general lacks of evidence).
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Carl Waldman and Alan Wexler, Who was Who in World Exploration.
New York, Facts on File, 1992. *
(Cited in Miles
Harvey, The Island of Lost Maps).
John Noble Wilford, The Mapmakers. New York, Knopf, 1981. *
(Cited in Miles Harvey, The Island of Lost Maps).
John Noble Wilford, The Mysterious History of Columbus: An
Exploration of the Man, the Myth, the Legacy. New York, Alfred A.
Knopf, 1991. *
(Cited in Miles Harvey, The Island
of Lost Maps).
Denis Wood with John Fels, The Power of Maps. New York,
Guildford Press, 1992. *
(Cited in Miles Harvey, The
Island of Lost Maps).
David Woodward, (Ed.), Five Centuries of Map Printing.
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1975. *
(Cited
in Miles Harvey, The Island of Lost Maps).
Peter Whitfield, New Found Lands: Maps in the History of
Exploration. New York, Routledge, 1998.*
(Cited
in Miles Harvey, The Island of Lost Maps).
Peter Whitfield, The Image of the World: Twenty Centuries of
World Maps. San Francisco, Pomegranate Books Artbooks, 1994.*
(Cited in Miles Harvey, The Island of Lost Maps).
Douglas C. Waller, Big Red: Three Months On Board A Trident Nuclear Submarine. HarperCollins, 2001, 336pp.
Gavin Weightman, The Frozen Water Trade: How Ice From New England Lakes Kept The World Cool. HarperCollins, 2002, 200pp.
Frank Welsh, A History of Hong Kong. London, HarperCollins, 1997.
Tony Wheeler, Time and Tide: The Islands of Tuvalu. Lonely Planet, 2001.
Eric Whitehouse, The Northern Approaches: Australia in Old Maps, 820-1770. Bowen Hills, Brisbane, Boolarong Press, 1994.
Keith C. Wilbur, Pirates and Patriots of the Revolution: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Colonial Seamanship. Old Saybrook, Connecticut, The Globe Perqot Press, 1983, 1984.
Glyn Williams, Voyages of Delusion: The Search for the Northwest Passage in The Age of Reason. HarperCollins, 2002, 467pp.
Glyn Williams, The Prize of All the Oceans. HarperCollins, 2000.
James A. Williamson, Maritime Enterprise, 1485-1558. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1913.
James A. Williamson, The Age of Drake. London, Adam and Charles Black, 1938.
James A. Williamson, The English Channel: A History. New York, World Publishing Co., 1959.
John Williams, A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands. London, London Missionary Society, John Snow, Paternoster Row, 1838.
Clennel Wilkinson, William Dampier. London, John Lane, 1929.
Thomas S. Willan, The Muscovy Merchants of 1555. Manchester University Press, 1953.
Thomas S. Willan, Studies in Elizabethan Foreign Trade. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1959.
Thomas S. Willan, The Early History of the Russia Company, 1553-1603. Manchester University Press, 1956.
Alfred C. Wood, A History of the Levant Company. London, Frank Cass, 1964.
G. A. Wood, The Discovery of Australia. London, Macmillan, 1922.
Exploration of Australia before Dampier's time, p. x, of the introduction, in James A. Williamson, (Ed.), A Voyage to New Holland, by William Dampier. Argonaut press, 1939. Dampier dedicated this book to Thomas Earl of Pembroke, former Admiralty administrator, Lord President of Privy Council.
Conrad E. Wright, Merchants and Mandarins: New York and the Early China Trade. New York, New York Historical Society, 1984.
George Wycherley, Buccaneers of the Pacific: of the bold English buccaneers, pirate privateers & gentleman adventurers, who sailed in peril through the stormy straits or pierced the isthmus jungle, to vex the king of Spain in the South Seas & the Western Pacific, plundering his cities & coasts & preying on his silver fleets & his golden galleons. London, John Long, 1929. (This title found in the Bateson collection of maritime history in the library of Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney.)
Glyn Williams, The Death of Captain Cook: A Hero Made and Unmade. Profile Books, 208, 197pp.
Jessica Watson, True Spirit. Hachette, 2010, 367pp. (By Australia's marvellous 16-year-old world solo sailor)
Simon Winchester, Atlantic. HarperCollins, 2010, 498pp. (A story about the million stories of the Atlantic Ocean)
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G. F. Zook, Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa. Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 1919. [From Davies, Royal Africa Company, p. 41].
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William Huddart, Unpathed Waters: Account of the Life and Times of Joseph Huddart, FRS. London, Quillen Press, 1989.
Maggie Keswick, The Thistle and the Jade:. A Celebration of 150 years of Jardine Matheson and Co. Sydney, Octopus Books Ltd, 1982.
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