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The globe : how the Earth became round /James Hannam
2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
525.1
The year 1000 : when explorers connected the world-- and globalization began /Valerie Hansen.
2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
909.1
Wreckers : disaster in the age of discovery /Simon Park.
2025. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.922
Far-fetched facts : the literature of travel and the idea of the South Seas
1995 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
820-311.8
Enoch's voyage : life on a whale ship 1851-1854
1994 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
639.245.1"1851/1854"
The big book of explorers / David Marshall
1992. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
910.4(100)
Empires of the Atlantic world : Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 /J.H. Elliott.
2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
The conquest of the ocean : the illustrated history of seafaring /Brian Lavery.
2013. • BOOK • 2 copies available.
930.9(26)
The European opportunity / [edited by] Felipe Fernâandez Armesto.
c1995. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
936"14"
Great passenger ships, 1920-1930 / William H. Miller
2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
629.123.3(100)"1920/1930"
The Atlantic in world history, 1490-1830.
2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
930.9(261)
Beyond the blue horizon : how the earliest mariners unlocked the secrets of the oceans /Brian Fagan.
2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
930.9(26)
Searching for the finmen : an unplanned journey in homage to the kayak /Norman Rogers.
2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
629.121
Invading America : the English Assault on the New World 1497-1630 /David Childs.
2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4(42:7)"14/16"
Conquerors : how Portugal seized the Indian Ocean and forged the first global empire /Roger Crowley.
2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
325.46(469)
Andrea doria and other recent liner disasters. / William H. Miller
2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
656.61.085.3
Voyaging in strange seas : the great revolution in science /David Knight.
2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4:5
Off the Deep End : A History of Madness at Sea /Nic Compton
2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
613.86(26)
The last journey of the San Bao Eunuch, Admiral Zheng He / Sheng-Wei Wang.
2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
Fallen idols : history is not erased when statues are pulled down : it is made /Alex von Tunzelmann.
2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
306.47
On savage shores : how indigenous Americans discovered Europe /Caroline Dodds Pennock.
2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
940.048997
The Routledge companion to marine and maritime worlds, 1400-1800 / edited by Claire Jowitt, Craig Lambert, and Steve Mentz.
2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4
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