Reading List

Books about the Places We'll Be Visiting, plus Some I just Want to Read

Overall Adventure & Travel Books

• Following the Equator, by Mark Twain

• Wanderer, by Sterling Hayden 

• In Search of a Kingdom:  Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire, by Laurence Bergreen

• Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne

• The Island: Or, Christian and His Comrades, by Lord Byron

• Sailing Around the World Alone, by Joshua Slocum

Caribbean Islands

• Caribbean, by James Michener 

• Pirate Latitudes, by Michael Crichton 

• Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson 

• The Republic of Pirates - Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down Paperback, by Colin Woodward

• Enemy of All Mankind: A story of Piracy, Power and History's First Global Manhunt, by Steve Johnson 

• Empire Crossroads:  A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day, by Carrie Gibson

Colombia

• One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Panama

• The Path Between the Seas:  The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914, by David McCullough

Galapagos Islands

• The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin

Polynesia, Micronesia & Melanesia

• We Are the Ocean:  Seceted Works, by Epeli Hau'ofa

• Tales of the South Pacific, by James Michener

• The Moon and Sixpence, by W. Somerset Maugham 

• Sailing with Impunity:  Adventure in the South Pacific, by Mary Trimble

• South Sea Tales, by Jack London

• Farther than Any Man:  The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook, by Martin Duggard

• Sea People:  The Puzzle of Polynesia, by Christina Thompson

• Typee, by Herman Melville

• Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe

Australia

• The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding, by Robert Hughes

• History of Australia:  A Captivating Guide to Australian History, Starting from the Aborigines Through the Dutch East India Company, James Cook, and World War II to the Present

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Indonesia

• A Brief History of Indonesia:  Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis:  The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation, by Tim Hannigan

• In the Time of Madness:  Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos, by Richard Lloyd Parry

• Cigarette Girl, by Ratih Kumala

Mauritius & Reunion Islands

• The Ocean of Churn:  How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History, by Sanjeev Sanyal

• Vanilla, by Tim Ecott

• Silent Winds, Dry Seas, by Vinod Busjeet

• The Indian Ocean, by Michael Pearson

• The Mauritius Command, by Patrick O'Brien

• Crags & Craters:  Rambles in the Island of Reunion, by William Dudley Oliver

South Africa

• Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Patton

• Covenant, by James Michener

• The Long Walk to Freedom:  The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, by Nelson Mandela

• Waiting for the Barbarians:  A Novel, by J. M. Coetzee

• The Cape Town Book, by Nechama Brodie

• Burger's Daughter, by Nadine Gordimer

Namibia

• Counting Teeth:  A Namibian Story, by Peter Midgley

• Mama Namibia, by Mari Serebrov

St. Helena

• The Emperor's Last Island:  A Journey to St. Helena, by Julia Blackburn

Brazil

• Conqueror's:  How Portugal formed the First Global Empire, by Roger Crowly

French Guyana

• Papillon, by Henri Charriere

Other Books

• The Metaphysical Club:  A Story of Ideas in America, by Louis Menand

• Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, by James Agee & Walker Evans

Sailing & Navigation Books

Navigation

• The Lost Art of Finding Our Way, by John Edward Huth

Pilots, Guides & Sailing Tales

• Windward to the Virgin Islands, by Mary Comer Krisher

Reference & Resource Books