Books and Journals used for the making of my maps, covering the period 1815-1914.
While many old maps can be found over at the David Rumsey Collection and OldMapsOnline, most of my maps are focused on telling a story or showing data beyond just locations and routes. Reading and finding old travel journals and modern research is a necessary and exciting part of my work. My favorite reads are highlighted in orange.
My Wishlist (Acquired with kind donations)
The Last Caravan: Camels, Traders and Markets in the Middle East | Philippe Petriat
Pre-Colonial Trading Networks and Traders: The Diakhanké | Philip D. Curtin
Empire of Cotton | Sven Beckert
Canals for a Nation: The Canal Era in the U.S. | Ronald Shaw
The Blackwall Frigates | Basil Lubbock
Bully Hayes, South Sea Pirate | Basil Lubbock
Sail, The Romance of the Clipper Ships | Basil Lubbock
Arctics
Modern sources
Arctic Exploration and Development bc. 500- c. 1915 | C. Garland
Pomor: Nord-Norge of Nord-Russland… | E Niemi
From Northeast Passage to Northern Sea Route | J. Nielsen & E. Okhuizen
Arctic Whalers | Basil Lubbock
Sea Otter Hunting of the Pacific Coast | Arthur Woodward
History of the Northern Sea Route | Nersc.no
Three Centuries of Whaling and Walrus Hunting… | Louwrens Hacquebord
Early Maritime Trade with the Eskimo… Bering Strait… | Dorothy J. Ray
Notes of 19th Century Trade in the Kotzebue Sound… | J. W. Vanstone
North and West Africa
Contemporary sources
Travels in Nubia | Johann L. Burckhardt
Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa | Heinrich Barth
Travels in Morocco | James Richardson
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara | James Richardson
Route from Ghat to Tawat | James Richardson
In the Heart of Africa | Samuel W. Baker
Slavery in Nineteenth Century Egypt | Gabriel Baer
Exploration of the Benue and its Northern Tributary the Kebbi | Claude M. MacDonald
Narrative of an Exploring Voyage Up the Rivers Kwora and Binue | William B. Baikie
Les Touareg du Nord | Henri Duveyrier
The Horses of the Sahara… | E. Daumas
Sahara und Sudan | Gustav Nachtigal
Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo | Rene Caillie
Spezial-karte von Afrika | Hermann Habenicht
A Journey in the Libyan Desert | Godfrey Sykes
Journeys in Northern Nigeria | Hans Vischer
Modern sources
People of the Veil | F. J. R. Rodd
Eastern Libya, Wadai and the Sanusiya | Dennis D. Cordell
Nineteenth-Century Reform in Ottoman Libya | Lisa Anderson
History of the Yorubas From the Earliest Times… | Samuel Johnson
Peanut and Colonialism: … Commercialization of Peanuts | George E. Brooks
Masters of the Water: River Power on the Middle Niger | Unknown Author
The Sorko Expansion in the Waters of the Niger… | Mansur A. Wara
History of African Cities South of the Sahara | Catherine Vidrovitch
Across Africa and Arabia | Irene Franck
Nineteenth Century Niger River Trade… | Femi J. Kolapo
A History of Africa | J. D. Fage
Morocco: From Empire to Independence | C. R. Pennell
A History of Modern Morocco | Susan Gilson Miller
General History of Africa, vol. VI | J. F. Ade Ajayi
Darb el Arba’in: The Forty Days’ Road | W. B. K. Shaw
The Capture of a Slave Caravan… | George M. La Rue
Human Porterage in Nigeria in the Nineteenth Century… | Deji Ogunremi
Long Distance Trade and Production: Sinsani… | Richard Roberts
Caravans of Kola: The Hausa Kola Trade | Paul Lovejoy
The Genesis of Kano’s Economic Prosperity… | Abdullahi Mahadi
The Slave Experience in Adamawa… | Catherine VerEecke
Expansion on the Benue 1830-1900 | A. H. M. Kirk-Greene
Trade and Trade Routes in 19th Century Nsukka | A. E. Afigbo
Precolonial Tiv Trade and Cloth Currency | D. C. Dorward
The Trade in Gum Arabic | James L. A. Webb Jr.
Commercial Rivalries and French Policy on the Senegal | Margaret O. McLane
An Economic History of Tropical Africa | J. M. Konczacki
From Pack Animals to Railways: Transports… | Bernard Moitt
Extractive Economies in a Historical Perspective | John H. Hanson
The Lure of Bambuk Gold | Philip D. Curtin
Yoruba Historical Dictionary | Unknown Author
The Yoruba Caravan System in the 19th Century | Toyin Falola
Liberia and the Atlantic World… | William E. Allen
The Liberian Coasting Trade | Dwight N. Syfert
The Freetown Colony and the Development of Legitimate… | E. A. Ijagbemi
Trade in Southern Nigeria | Kannan K. Nair
Trade and Politics behind the Slave Coast: The Lagoon Traffic… | Robin Law
The Canoe in West African History | Robert Smith
The Establishment of Long-Distance Trade… Sierra Leone… | Winston McGowan
Creole Women Traders in the 19th Century | E. Frances White
The Slave Trade in 19th Century Temneland | Kenneth C. Wylie
Traders and the Center in Massina, Kong and Samori | Victor Azarya
Continuing British Interest in Coastal Guinea… | Bruce L. Mouser
The Caravan Trade in the 19th Century | A. Adu Boahen
Aspects of the Ashanti Northern Trade in the 19th Century | Kwame Arhin
The Children of the Desert and the Laws of the Sea | Alison Frank
Across the Sahara: Tracks, Trade and… | Klaus Braun
Golden Trade of the Moors | E. W. Bovill
Unravelling Biodiversity, Evolution and Threats… Sahara-Sahel… | José Carlos Brito
East and South Africa
Contemporary sources
Angola and the River Congo | Joachim J. Monteiro
Lake Regions of Central Africa | Richard F. Burton
Sun, Sand and Somals | H. Rayne
Two Recent Journeys in Northern Somaliland | F. B. Parkinson
The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society vol. VIII | James Chesson
First Footsteps in East Africa | Richard F. Burton
Seventeen Trips Through Somaliland | H. G. C. Swayne
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa | David Livingstone
Across Africa | Verney Lovett Cameron
A Journey through the Somali Country to the Webbe Shebeyli | F. L. James
Le Bahr Al Ghazal | Alfred Henry Dye
The Soudan and the Valley of the White Nile | Alvan S. Southworth
The Navigation of the Nile | Chas P. Stone
Modern sources
A Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia | David H. Shinn
The Ivory Trade and Chiefdoms in Pre-Colonial Malawi | Brian Morris
Historical Dictionary of Malawi | Owen J. M. Kalinga
Ivory and Slaves: Changing Patterns of International… | Edward A. Alpers
The East African Ivory Trade in the 19th Century | R. W. Beachley
Caravan Porters of the Nyika | Stephen J. Rockel
Seascape and Sailing Ships of the Swahili Shores | Roosje de Leeuwe
Historical Dictionary of Somalia | Mohamed Haji Mukhtar
Great Lakes of Africa | Jean-Pierre Chretien
Trade and Economic Development in… Madagascar | Phares M. Mutibwa
An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar | Gwyn Campbell
Black Chiefs, White Traders and Colonial Policy… | Jill R. Dias
An Economic History of Tropical Africa | J. M. Konzcacki
African Journal: Economic History of Tropical Africa
The Great Lake of Southern Africa… | William D. Cooley
The Abolition of the Slave Trade and the Transformation… | David M. Gordon
A Study on the Trading Routes Connecting the Red Sea… | Riichi Miyake
The Trade of Central Ethiopia in the 19th Century | Richard Pankhurst
The Trade of Southern and Western Ethiopia | Richard Pankhurst
The Banyan Presence at Massawa, Dahlak, Horn of Africa | Richard Pankhurst
The Trade of the Gulf of Aden: Ports of Africa | Richard Pankhurst
The Trade of Northern Ethiopia in the 19th Century | Richard Pankhurst
Natal: The Cape and the Indian Ocean | B. A. Le Cordeur
The Rise and Decline of Port Elizabeth | Alan Mabin
Primitive Craft of the Central Asian Lakes | E. B. W. Worthington
West Asia
Contemporary sources
A Ride Through Islam | H. C. Marsh
Journal of a Residence at Baghdad | Anthony Groves
The Euphrates Expedition
The Expedition for the Survey of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris | R. A. Chesney
The Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition | R. A. Chesney
Travels in Arabia | Bayard Taylor
Travels in Arabia | John Lewis Burkhardt
Constantinople | Théopile Gautier
On Horseback Through Asia Minor | Fred Burnaby
Turkey and its Resources | David Urquhart
From Jerusalem through Arabia, Koordistan… | David D’Beth Hillel
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land | John Lewis Burckhardt
Travels in Asia Minor and Greece | Richard Chandler
Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. vol I. | J. G. Lorimer
Persian Gulf Pearl Fisheries | Stuart George Knox
Modern sources
Government and Society in Alexandria | Michael J. Reimer
Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire | Gabor Agoston
Pearls, Pearlers and Indian Pearl Traders… | Chhaya Goswami
Regional Trade and 19th Century Mosul… | Sarah D. Shields
An Economic History of Ottoman Empire | Suraiya Faroqhi
Hasa: An Arabian Oasis | J. B. Mackie
Expansion of Opium Production in Turkey… | Ibrahim Ihsan Poroy
The Tabriz-Trabzond Trade | Charles Issawi
The Northern Routes Across Anatolia | David Winfield
A Short History of the Bursa Silk Industry | Murat Çizakça
Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria’s Great Merchant City | P. Mansel
Iran: A Modern History | Abbas Amanat
A History of Palestine | Gudrun Krämer
Rediscovering the 19th Century Port Town in Levant: Smyrna | Burcu Tasci
Eastern Mediterranean Port Cities and their Bourgeoisies | Resat Kasaba
The Ocean-Going Dhow Trade to East Africa | D. N. McMaster
Margins of the Market. Trafficking and Capitalism | Johan Mathew
Monsoon Voyagers | Fahad Ahmad Bishara
A Sea of Debt | Fahad Ahmad Bishara
A Sea of Wealth: The Omani Empire… | Nicholas P. Roberts
Across Africa and Arabia | R. Kranz
Arab Seafaring | George F. Hourani
Map of Pearl Banks | Sheikh Mani
East Asia
Contemporary sources
The Supplement to the Cyclopedia of India and of Eastern… | E. Balfour
The Middle Kingdom | S. Wells Williams
Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas… | M. Perry
Travels in Western China and Eastern Thibet | T. T. Cooper
Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas | W. Hastings Macaulay
The China Sea Directory | J. W. Reed
China: Political, Commercial and Social | R. Montgomery Martin
The Economic History of Japan | William W. Lockwood
Commercial Guide and Trade Directory of Japan | Tayui Riuzaburo
The Japan Year Book | Yoshitaro Takenobu
Japan and its Trade | J. Morris
Jinrikisha days in Japan | Eliza Ruhama Scidmore
Juornal de mon Troisieme Voyage… L’empire Chinois | Armand David
Tea and the Tea Trade | Gideon Nye
Modern sources
Horses, Silver and Cowries: Yunnan in a Global perspective | Bin Yang
The Yunnan-Burma Road | Patrick Fitzgerald
Korea: Its History, its People and its Commerce | Herbert Austin
Geography of Chinese Tea | Sergey Shevelev
Gold Diggers, Farmers and Traders in the Chinese Districts | M. S. Heidhues
History of the Opium Problem | Hans Derks
Company Island: A Note on the the History of Belitung | M. S. Heidhues
The Economic History of China | Richard von Glahn
The Salt Merchants of Yang-Chou… | Ping-ti Ho
Encyclopedia of China | Dorothy Perkins
Merchants Organizations in Late Imperial China | Wellington K. K. Chan
Emporium in Imperio: Nanyang Networks… | Mark R. Frost
The Indentured Coolie Trade from Macao | John Asome
Marine Transport Management in Early-Modern Japan | Masahiro Uemura
The Dojima Rice Exchange | Takatsuki Yasuo
China Handbook Series: Geography
History of Transportation in China | Zhi Dao
South Asia
Contemporary sources
Journal of a Cavalry Officer in India | M. A. Humbley
Narrative of a Voyage to India | W. B. Cramp
Grand Moving Diorama of Hindostan
Ten Years in India and Three Years in South Africa | W. J. D. Gould
The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains
Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon | William Muir
Journal of a Political Mission to Afghanistan | H. W. Bellew
Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet | William H. Knight
Modern sources
Indian Ocean in World History | Edward Alpers
The Indian Ocean | Michael Pearson
The Tibetans | Mattew T. Kapstein
Indian Trade with Ethiopia, the Gulf of Aden… | Richard Pankhurst
Along the Musk Routes: Exchanges Between Tibet… | Anna Akasoy
South East Asia
Contemporary sources
Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China | M. Henri Mouhot
On the Trade of the Eastern Archipelago with new Guinea… | Alfred R. Wallace
The Pacification of Burma | Edward Arnold
Burmah and the Burmese | Kenneth H. Mackenzie
Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China, vol. I | M. Henri Mouhot
Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China, vol. II | M. Henri Mouhot
Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam and Muscat | Edmund Roberts
Singapore, Malacca, Java | F. Jagor
Modern sources
Hanoi: City of the Rising Dragon | George Bourdarel
A History of Thailand | Chris Baker
A History of Modern Indonesia… | M. C. Ricklefs
Trading Ships of the South China Sea… | Pierre-Yves Manguin
Between Mountains and the Sea: … Northern Vietnam | Li Tana
Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka | Nordin Hussin
The Junk Blue Book | Hai Thuyen Thanh Thu
Central Asia, Russia & the Steppes
Contemporary sources
A Ride to Khiva | Fred Burnaby
Travels into Bokhara | Alexander Burnes
The Road to Merv | H. C. Rawlinson
The Mountain Passes Leading to the Valley of Bamian | E. Kaye
The Awakening of China | W. A. P. Martin
Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China | M. Huc
Narrative of a Journey into Khorasan | James B. Fraser
An Account of the Kingdom of Cabul | Robert W. Forbes
Journey into Khorasan | James B. Fraser
Travels in upper and Lower Amur | Thomas Witlam Atkinson
The Siberian Overland Route | Alexander Michie
Drawings of ships | P. A. Bogoslavsky
Tales on an Old Sea Port | Wilfred Harold Munro
The Tchoukot Expedition | Carl Neumann & Capt. Clarke
Modern sources
A History of the People of Siberia | K. Forsyth
California-Alaska Trade: The American Russian Company | Norman Saul
A History of Russia from Birth of Peter the Great | William Morfill
Russian Iron and Steel Production from 1800-1860 | Malcolm R. Hill
A Century of Russian Railroad Construction 1837-1936 | Edward Ames
The Russian Market in World Trade, 1500-1860 | Artur Attman
The Volga: A History of Russia’s Greatest River | Janet M. Hartley
The Russian Far East | John J. Stephan
Det Sovande Landet | Margareta Sohlman
Illustrated History of Kazakhstan | Jeremy Tredennick
Information and Empire Mechanisms of Communication in Russia | Simon Franklin
The Reindeer Chukchi’s Status in Nineteenth Century… | Andrei A. Znamenski
The Russian Arctic | V. I. Stanulevich & S. O. Shalyapin
North America
Contemporary sources
Travels in North America | William Bingley
Lloyds Steamboat Directory | James T. Lloyd
The Oregon Trail | Francis Parkman Jr.
Audubon’s Western Journal | John Woodhouse Audubon
Appletons’ Illustrate Hand-book of American Travel | D. Appleton
The City of the Saints: Across the Rocky Mountains… | Richard F. Burton
A Journey Through Texas | Frederick Law Olmsted
American Explorers Series: Early Steamboating on Missouri River | H. M. Chittenden
Scenes in The Hawaiian Islands and California | Mary E. Anderson
The Awakening of the Desert | Julius C. Birge
Minnesota and Dacotah | Robert Farnham
Alaska: It Southern Coast and the Sitkan Archipelago | E. Ruhamah Scidmore
At the Foot of the Chilkoot Pass Along Alaska’s Great River | F. Schwatka
American Naturalist Vol IV | Capt. C. M. Scammon
Nova Britannia | Alexander Morris
Georgia: Its History, Condition and Resources | Samuel A. Drake
Report on the Rock Oil or Petrolium | Venango Co.
History of Philadelphia | John Thomas Scharf
Voyages en Scandinavie end Laponie | France Commission du Nord
History of Louisiana | E. Bunner
Merchant Vessels of the United States
Modern sources
Russian Maritime Catastrophes During the Colonization of Alaska | Andrei V. Grinev
OregonPioneers.com
Nature’s Metropolis | William Cronon
The Frozen Water Trade | Gavin Weightman
Steamboating on the Mississippi… | Erik F. Haites & James Mak
America: A Narrative History | George B. Tindell
The New Encyclopedia of the American West | Howard R. Lamar
The Fraser River Humbug… | Robert E. Ficken
Maritime History of the Great Lakes
Gold Rush Days on the Fraser River | Donald Sage
Great Lakes Navigation and Navigational Aids | Theodore J. Karamanski
History of Richmond as a Port City | Myrtle E. Callahan
The Selection of Slaves for the New Orleans Market
Some Economic Aspects of the Domestic Slave Trade | Robert Evans Jr.
The Interregional Slave Trade Trade | Jonathan B. Pritchett
The Northern Roots of… Antebellum Elite | Paul M. Pressly
Waterways in Livestock and Meat Trade | Rudolf A. Clemen
Ohio Valley Commerce | Charles K. Palmer
Improving Slavery’s Border… | Zachary M. Bennett
The Growth… and Significance of American Fur Trade | James L. Clayton
Steamboats and the Great Productivity Surge… | James Mak & Gary M. Walton
The Marketing of Wool in the 19th Century… | Norman L. Crockett
Ginseng Rush in Minnesota | William E. Lass
Central America and Antilles
Contemporary sources
A Trip to Cuba | Julia Ward Howe
Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America | William Cullen Bryant
Notes of Travels in Cuba and Mexico | B. M. Norman
A Summer on the Borders of the Caribbean Sea | Dennis Harris
Travels and Adventures in the South and Central America | Don Ramon Paez
Cités er Ruines Americaine Mitla… | Par M. Viollet-Le-Duc
Mexico and Mexicans, Ancient and Modern | Edward Burnett Tylor
Frances Calderon de La Barca | Manuel Romero
Isthmus of Panama: History of the Panama Railroad | Otis John C. Book
Modern sources
The Mexican Mining Industry in the Nineteenth… | Margaret E. Rankine
Encyclopedia of Mexico, vol. II | Michael S. Werner
A Brief History of the Caribbean | Jan Rogozinski
Cuban Railroads | Gert J. Oostindie
South America
Contemporary sources
Sailing Directions for Magellan Strait and Channels… | Capt. Richard C. Mayne
Up the Parana and in Paraguay | J. B. Lippincott
Brazil, River Plate and the Falkland islands | William Hadfield
Brazil and de la Plata | C. S. Stewart
A Historical and Descriptive narrative of Twenty Years… | W. B. Stevenson
Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon… | William L. Herndon
Travels in Peru and India | Clements R. Markham
Travels and Adventures in South and Central America | Don Ramon Paez
Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de la Plata | Woodbine Parish
Brazil and the River Plate | William Hadfield
Travels in Peru: On the coast, in the Sierra and… | J. J. von Tschudi
Up the Orinoco and Down the Magdalena | H. J. Mozans
Down the Orinoco in a Canoe | Pérez Triana
Explorations of the Highlands of Brazil | Capt. Richard F. Burton
Modern sources
The Emergence of Latin America | David Bushnell
Salta, an Early Economic Center of Argentina | G. M. Wrigley
Brazil: Five Centuries of Change | Thomas Skidmore
The Brazilian Gold Rush | Manoel Cardozo
The Diamond Fields of Brazil | Hugh Pearson
Brazilian Export Growth and Divergence in the Tropics… | C. D. Absell
Europe
Contemporary sources
Wanderings in Spain | Thépohile Gautier
Bradshaws Continental Railway Guide
Incidents of travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia and Poland | John Lloyd Stephens
Muistelmia Matkoilta Venäjällä Vousina | A. Ahlqvist
A Journey into Russia in 1858 | Robert Heywood
From Paris to Pekin over Siberian Snows | Victor Meignan
Boats of Siberia | P. A. Bagoslavsky
Travels in Southern Russia and the Crimea | Anatoly Nikolaevich Demidov
Modern sources
The Great Sea | David Abulafia
Skogen, Flottningen och Norrbottens Människor | Skogshistoriska Sällskapet
Sågad Skog för Välstånd | Ronny Pettersson
A Concise History of Bulgaria | R. J. Crampton
The Balkans: From Constantinople to Communism | Dennis P. Hupchick
A Concise History of Greece | Richard Clogg
A History of Transylvania | Stefan Pascu
The Romanians: A History | Vlad Georgescu
The Regions of Germany | Dieter K. Buse
Baskien och Katalonien | Puig I Scotini
A Concise History of Portugal | David Birmingham
A Concise History of Poland | Jerzy Lukowski
Spain: A History | Raymond Carr
A History of Italy: 1700-1860 | Stuart Woolf
A History of Slovakia | Stanislav J. Kirschbaum
History of Germany | Jonathan Sperber
The Story of Malta | Brian Blouet
Modern Italy: A Political History | Denis Mack Smith
Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland | R. F. Foster
The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America | Edward Laxton
A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes | Jonathan Bardon
The Victorian Vision: Inventing New Britain | John M. Mackenzie
Illustrated History: British Empire | P. S. Marshall
The Scottish Nation: 1700-2000 | T. M. Devine
History of Scotland | R. A. Houston
Finlands Historia vol. III | Shildt
History of Iceland | Jon R. Hjalmarsson
En Svensk Ekonomisk Historia 1850-1985 | Mats Larsson
European Economic History | E. Damsgaard Hansen
Antwerp World Port: On Trading and Shipping
The Strange Birth of Liberal Denmark: Danish Trade… | Ingrid Henriksen
From the Black Sea to the Atlantic: Finnish Merchant… | Kustaa Hautala
The Cattle Trade of Aberdeenshire… | J. H. Smith
Cambridge of Economic History of European Industrialisation… p. I-II
The Discovery of France | Graham Robb
Shipping and Economic Development in… Ireland | Peter M. Solar
The Danube: Its Historical, Political, Economic… | Henry Hajnal
The Case of Lower Danube Transportation Development | John H. Jensen
The History of the Port of London | Peter Stone
Baltic Shipping Marks on Nineteenth-Century Timber | Louis Vandenabeele
The Maltese Merchants Fleer and the Black Sea… | Carmel Vassallo
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Åländsk Allmogeseglation | David Papp
Oceania
Contemporary sources
Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas | Herman Melville
A Directory for the Navigation of the Pacific Ocean | Alexander G. Findlay
Modern sources
Svarta Pärlornas Ö | Thomas Malm
Concise History of Australia | Stuart MacIntyre
A Maritime History of Australia | John Bach
The Trade in Medicinal Leeches in the Southern… | Roy T. Sawyer
Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World | Gregory T. Cushman
Tahiti Nui: Change and Survival in French Polynesia | Colin Newbury
Global
Contemporary sources
Cruise of the ‘Alert’ | R. W. Coppinger
Clavis Analytica zur Bestimmung der Mineralien… | Herman Mayer
Spices: Their Nature and Growth | McCormick & Co.
Spices: Their Histories: Valueable Information for Grocers
The Nautical Magazine, issues 1840-1861
Cyclopedia of India, Eastern and Southern Asia, Commerce vol 1-2. | Edward Balfour
Vindar och Strömmar | O. A. Carlsten
Two Years at Sea | Jane Roberts
The Ocean, the River and the Shore | John William Willcock
From the Forecastle to the Cabin | Samuel S. Samuels
Atlas of the World’s Commerce | John Bartholomew
Coffee: From Plantation to Cup | Francis B. Thurber
The Coffee, its History, Cultivation and Uses | Robert Hewitt Jr.
Coffee and Chicory | P. L. Simmonds
Modern sources
Cross-Cultural Trade in World History | Philip D. Curtin
Sea of Troubles | Ian Rutledge
Leviathan: History of Whaling in America | Eric Jay Dolin
Pacific Crossing: California Gold Rush and Chinese… | Elizabeth Sinn
Britain’s War Against the Slave Trade | Anthony Sullivan
A Global History of Gold Rushes | Mountford Tuffnell
The Global Merchants | Joseph Sassoon
Current Reading List
South Asia | Wanderings of a Pilgrim, during Four-and-Twenty Years, in the East
East Africa | Economic History of Kenya and Uganda 1800-1970
West Africa | Travels and Explorations in Yorubaland
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