Books:


  • Meaghan Wilson Anastasios, The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill, Sydney, Harper Collins, 2018
  • Jim Bain, Uncertain Beginnings, Glen Waverley, Sid Hartha Publications, 2011
  • Alison Bashford and Stuart Macintyre (eds), The Cambridge history of Australia, Port Melbourne, Cambridge University Press 2013
  • Denver Beanland, The Queensland Caesar Sir Thomas Mcilwraith, Salisbury, Queensland, Boolarong Press, 2013
  • C. Raymond Beazley, Prince Henry the Navigator: the hero of Portugal and of modern discovery 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. London, G.P. Putnam, 1894
  • Jeremy Beckett, Torres Strait Islanders: Custom and Colonialism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987
  • Peter Bell, Our Place in the Sun: A Short History of James Cook University, Townsville, James Cook University, 2010
  • Simon Berthon and Andrew Robinson, The Shape of the World, London, George Philip, 1991
  • Robert E. Bjork (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010
  • Geoffrey Blainey, The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History, Sydney, Pan Macmillan, 2001
  • Geoffrey Blainey, Sea Of Dangers - Captain Cook And His Rivals, London, Penguin, 2008
  • Noelene Bloomfield, Almost a French Australia: French-British Rivalry in the Southern Oceans, Canberra, Halstead Press, 2017
  • G.C. Bolton, A Thousand Miles Away: A History of North Queensland to 1920, Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1970 
  • C. R. Boxer, The Dutch Seaborne Empire London, Hutchinson, 1965
  • C.R. Boxer, The Portuguese Seaborne Empire, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1969
  • David Buisseret (ed.), The Oxford Companion to World Exploration, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007
  • Jerry Brotton, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, London, Penguin, 2012
  • Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything: A Journey Through Space and Time, London, Transworld Publishers, 2004.
  • Ian Burnet, Spice Islands. Dural, NSW, Rosenberg Publishing, 2013
  • Ian Burnet, Where Australia collides with Asia : the epic voyages of Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and the origin of On the origin of species, Sydney, Rosenberg, 2017
  • Ian Burnet, The Tasman Map A Biography of a Map: Abel Tasman, the Dutch East India Company and the First Dutch Discoveries of Australia, Rosenberg Publishing, Duval NSW, 2019
  • The Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985.
  • Michael Cannon, The Exploration of Australia: From First Voyages to Satellite Discoveries Sydney Readers Digest Services, 1987
  • Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Edinburgh, W. & R.Chambers Ltd, 1990
  • Martin Percival Charlesworth, Trade Routes and Commerce of the Roman Empire, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 1920
  • K. N.Chaudhuri, Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean: an Economic History from the Rise of Islam until 1750, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985
  • Robert Clancy, The mapping of Terra Australis, Macquarie Park, N.S.W; Universal Press, 1995
  • Edward M. Curr, The Australian Race: Its Origin, Languages, Customs, Place Of Landing In Australia, And The Routes By Which It Spread Itself Over That Continent, Volume II, Melbourne, John Ferres, Government Printer, 1886
  • K. M. Dallas, Trading Posts or Penal Colonies: The Commercial Significance of Cook's New Holland Route To The Pacific, Hobart, Fuller's Bookshop, 1969.
  • Alexander Dalrymple, An Historical Collection Of The Several Voyages And Discoveries In The South Pacific Ocean, London, 1770
  • Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History, Kindle Edition, London, Random House, 2018. pp. 218–222.
  • D. W. Davies, A Primer of Dutch Seventeenth Century Overseas Trade, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1961
  • Danny Davis, Commercial Navigation in the Greek and Roman World, Ph. D. Thesis, Iniversity of Texas at Austin, 2009.
  • Graeme Davison, John Hirst and Stuart Macintyre (eds) The Oxford Companion to Australian History, Oxford University Press, 2003
  • C. B. Dear and Peter Kemp (eds), The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007
  • Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (Trans, C. D. Yonge), London, G. Bell and Sons, 1915.
  • Jack Drake, Queensland's Frontier Wars, Tingalpa, Boolarong Press, 2021
  • William Eisler,  The furthest shore: images of Terra Australis from the Middle Ages to Captain Cook, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995 
  • Alexander Eliot, Greece: A History, Boston, New Word City, 2016
  • Miriam Estensen, Discovery: The Quest for the Great South Land, St Leonards, Allen & Unwin, 1998
  • Miriam Estensen, Terra Australis Incognita: The Spanish Quest for the mysterious Great South Land, Crows Nest, Allen & Unwin, 2006
  • Raymond Evans, Kay Saunders and Kathryn Cronin, Race Relations In Colonial Queensland A History Of Exclusion, Exploitation And Extermination, St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1975
  • Patricia Fara, Sex, botany and empire : the story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks, London, Icon Books, 2003
  • Felipe Fernandez Armesto, Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration, New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2006
  • Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (ed.) The Times Atlas of World Exploration, London, Harper Collins, 1991
  • Barron Field (ed.), Geographical memoirs on New South Wales / by various hands. Containing an account of the Surveyor General's late expedition to two new ports, the discovery of Moreton Bay River, with the adventures for seven months there of two shipwrecked men, a route from Bathurst to Liverpool Plains : together with other papers on the aborigines, the geology, the botany, the timber, the astronomy, and the meteorology of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, London, John Murray, 1825.
  • William J. Frawley (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003
  • Omri Bassewitch Frenkel, Transplantation of Asian Spices in the Spanish Empire 1518-1640: Entrepreneurship, Empiricism, and the Crown, Ph. D. Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, 2017.
  • Richard Frohock, Buccaneers and Pirates: The Story of the English Sea Rover 1675-1725, Newark, University of Delaware Press, 2012
  • Simon Garfield, On the Map: Why the world looks the way it does, London, Profile Books, 2012
  • Michele Gavet-Imbert (ed.), The Guinness Book of Explorers and Exploration, Enfield, Guinness Publishing Ltd, 1991
  • Dorothy Gibson-Wilde and Bruce Gibson-Wilde, A Pattern of Pubs: Hotels of Townsville 1864 - 1914, Townsville, James Cook University of North Queensland History Department, 1988
  • J. C. H. Gill, The Missing Coast: The Queensland Coast Takes Shape, Brisbane, Queensland Museum, 1988
  • A.C. Grayling, The History of Philosophy, London, Penguin, 2019
  • Christopher Haigh (ed.), The Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985
  • William Harlan Hale, Horizon History of Ancient Greece, Rockville, MD, New World City/American Heritage Publishing, 2018
  • Kenneth R. Hall, Maritime trade and state development in early Southeast Asia, Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1985.
  • John Hardy and Alan Frost (eds) Studies from Terra Australis to Australia, Canberra, Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1989  
  • Stephen Hawking, Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe, Beverley Hills, Phoenix Books, 2003
  • Lyn Henderson, More than rates, roads and rubbish: a history of local government in action in Thuringowa Shire 1879-1985. PhD thesis, James Cook University, 1992
  • Herodotus, The History Of Herodotus, Translated by G. C. Macaulay, London, MacMillan and Co.1890
  • Richard Holmes, Charles Singleton, and Dr Spencer Jones (eds.), The Oxford Companion to Military History, Oxford University Press, 2001
  • Colin Hooper, Angor to Zillmanton: stories of North Queensland's deserted towns, Brisbane, AEBIS Publishing, 1993
  • Colin Hooper, North Queensland Deserted Towns: Bowen - Mackay - Townsville, Colin Hooper, 2015
  • Simon Hornblower and Tony Spawforth (eds.) Who's Who in the Classical World, Oxford, Oxford University Press 2003
  • George Fadlo Hourani, Arab seafaring in the Indian Ocean in ancient and early medieval times, Beirut, Khayats, 1963
  • The Hutchinson Dictionary of World History, Oxford, Helicon, 1993
  • Robert Logan Jack, Northmost Australia: Three Centuries Of Exploration, Discovery, And Adventure In And Around The Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1921
  • Colin Jack-Hinton, The search for the islands of Solomon 1567-1838, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1969
  • W. Ross Johnston, Brisbane: The First Thirty Years, Brisbane, Booralong Publications, 1988
  • Charles H. Kahn, Anaximander and the origins of Greek cosmology, New York, Columbia University Press, 1964
  • John Keay, The spice route: a history, London, John Murray, 2005
  • John Keegan, A History of Warfare, Lomndon, Hutchinson, 1993
  • Anne Kerr and Edmund Wright (eds) A Dictionary of World History. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006 (Digital edition 2015)
  • Phillip Parker King, Narrative Of A Survey Of The Intertropical And Western Coasts Of Australia, Performed Between The Years 1818 And 1822, John Murray, London, 1826
  • Robert W. Kirk, Paradise Past: The Transformation of the South Pacific, 1520–1929, McFarland & Company, Inc., 2012
  • Joop W Koopmans and Arend H, Huussen, Jr, Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands, Lanham MD, Scarecrow Press, 2007
  • Larousse Encyclopedia of Modern History from 1500 to the present day, New York, Crescent Books, 1981
  • Glen Lewis, A History of the Ports of Queensland, St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1973
  • Michael McCarthy, Finding an ancient land: an illustrated research essay: Early imaging and exploration of the Great South Land through Dutch, French and English voyages of discovery, National Museum of Australia exhibition. 2005.
  • Evan McHugh, 1606: An Epic Adventure, Sydney UNSW Press, 2006
  • Richard D. McKirahan, Philosophy Before Socrates : An Introduction with Texts and Commentary, Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2014
  • Richard Henry Major, Early Voyages to Terra Australis, now called Australia, London, The Hakluyt Society, 1859
  • Richard Henry Major, The life of Prince Henry of Portugal surnamed the navigator and its results, London, A. Asher, 1868
  • Leslie R. Marchant, The Papal Line of Demarcation and its Impact in the Eastern Hemisphere on the Political Division of Australia 1479 - 1829, Greenwood, W.A., Woodside Valley Foundation, 2008
  • John Mathew, Highways and Byways: The Origin of Townsville Street Names. Townsville, City of Townsville: Townsville Library Service, 2008
  • G. A. Mawer, Incognita: The Invention and Discovery of Terra Australis, Melbourne, Australian Scholarly 2013
  • Claude Nicolet, Space, geography, and politics in the early Roman empire, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1991
  • Robert Orsted-Jensen, Frontier History Revisited: Colonial Queensland and the History War', Brisbane, Lux Mundi Publishing 2011 pp. 121, 128
  • The Oxford Companion to British History, Oxford, Oxford University Press 1997
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Scientists, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999
  • Edward Palmer, Early Days in North Queensland, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1903
  • Philip Parker (ed.), The Great Trade Routes: a history of cargoes and commerce over land and sea, London, Conway Publishing, 2012
  • J. H. Parry, The Age of Reconnaissance, London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1963
  • John Pearn, Auchenflower: The Suburb and the Name: A History of Auchenflower, Brisbane, Australia, Brisbane, Amphion Press/Department of Child Health, 1997.
  • M.N. Pearson, The Portuguese in India (The New Cambridge History of India Vol. 1), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987
  • Michael Pearson, Great Southern Land: the maritime exploration of Terra Australis, Canberra, Department of the Environment and Heritage, 2005
  • Glenville Pike, Queensland Frontier, Adelaide, Rigby, 1978
  • Phillip Playford, Voyage of discovery to Terra Australis: by Willem De Vlamingh in 1696-97, Perth, Western Australian Museum, 1998
  • Diana & Michael Preston, A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier: Explorer, Naturalist and Buccaneer, London, Corgi, 2005
  • Neil Rennie, Far-fetched facts: the literature of travel and the idea of the south seas, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1995
  • J.M. Roberts, A History of Europe, Oxford, Helicon Publishing, 1996
  • N. A. M. Rodger, The wooden world : an anatomy of the Georgian navy, London : Collins ; 1986
  • James S. Romm, The edges of the earth in ancient thought : geography, exploration, and fiction, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1992
  • Peter Russell, Prince Henry' the Navigator': A Life, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2001
  • W. Clark Russell, William Dampier, London, Macmillan, 1889
  • A.J.R. Russell-Wood, The Portuguese Empire, 1415 – 1808: A World on the Move, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998
  • Percival Searle, Dictionary of Australian Biography, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1949
  • Andrew Sharp, The Discovery of Australia, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963
  • C. Martinez Shaw (ed.) Spanish Pacific. From Magellan to Malaspina, Barcelona, Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, 1988
  • William Smith, (ed.) Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London, James Walton, 1849
  • O.H.K. Spate, The Pacific Since Magellan, Volume I: The Spanish Lake, Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1988
  • O.H.K. Spate, The Pacific Since Magellan, Volume II: Monopolists and Freebooters, Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1983
  • O.H.K. Spate, The Pacific Since Magellan, Volume III: Paradise Found and Lost, Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1988
  • Avan Judd Stallard, Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent, Clayton, Monash University Publishing, 2016
  • Strabo, Geography (trans. H. C. Hamilton and W. Falconer), London, Henry G. John, 1854
  • David Stuttard, A History of Ancient Greece in Fifty Lives, London, Thames and Hudson, 2014
  • Malachy Talack, The Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries, Phantoms and Fakes, Edinburgh, Polygon, 2016
  • H. J. Taylor, The History of Townsville Harbour 1864-1979, Brisbane, Booralong Publications for the Townsville Harbour Board, 1980
  • Robert Tiley, Australian Navigators: Picking Up Shells and Catching Butterflies in an Age of Revolution, Sydney, Kangaroo Press, 2002.
  • Time-Life History of the World: 1400–1500: Voyages of Discovery, Amsterdam, Time-Life Books, 1989
  • Norman Tindale, Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1974.
  • Henry van Zanden, 1606 Discovery of Australia, Perth, Rio Bay Enterprises, 1997
  • Lennie Wallace, Cape York Peninsula: A History of Unlauded Heroes, Brisbane, Boorlong Press, 2012
  • Ronald Watkins, Unknown Seas: How Vasco da Gama opened the East, London, John Murray, 2001
  • Helen Wallis (ed.) Carteret's Voyage Round the World 1766-69, Cambridge, The Hakluyt Society, 1965
  • W.J.L. Wharton (ed.), Captain Cook's Journal During His First Voyage Round The World made in H.M. Bark "Endeavour" 1768-71, London, Elliot Stock, 62 Paternoster Row, 1893
  • John Noble Wilford, The Mapmakers, New York, A.A. Knopf, 2000
  • Glyndwr Williams, Buccaneers, explorers and settlers: British enterprise and encounters in the Pacific, 1670-1800, Aldershot, Ashgate Variorum, 2005
  • Glyndwr Williams, The expansion of Europe in the eighteenth century, overseas rivalry, discovery and exploitation, London, Blandford Press; 1966
  • Ian Worthington. By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014


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