RECOMMENDED  SUPPLEMENTAL  READINGS:  1 June 2024

 

Dr. Charlie Urbanowicz / Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

California State University, Chico / Chico, California 95929-0400

email:  csurbanowicz@gmail.com or curbanowicz@csuchico.edu

Urbanowicz Home Page: https://curbanowicz.yourweb.csuchico.edu/

 

As an Anthropologist who has had discussions with guests since 2004 on almost 50 cruises (https://curbanowicz.yourweb.csuchico.edu/VariousCruiseMaps.html), providing information about Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific, World War II, Gauguin and his times, as well as Charles Darwin, I occasionally receive requests for information to augment a reading list distributed for the particular cruise.  In responding with information to a specific request, I refer individuals to this changing page (https://curbanowicz.yourweb.csuchico.edu/June2024.html).

 

Another web page, https://curbanowicz.yourweb.csuchico.edu/CruiseReferences.html (which is no longer updated) can also provide potentially valuable resources for the interested individual.

 

 

People and Exploration

 

Caroline Alexander, 2003, The Bounty:  The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (NY:  Viking).

 

Mark Anderson, 2012, The Day The World Discovered The Sun:  An Extraordinary Story of Scientific Adventure and the Race to Track the Transit of Venus (Boston:  Da Capo Press).

 

Martha Beckwith [Translator and Editor], 1951, The Kumulipo:  A Hawaiian Creation Chant.

 

Trevor Bentley, 1999, Pakeha Maori:  The Extraordinary Story of the Europeans Who Lived as Maori in early New Zealand (Penguin).

 

L. Bergreen, 2003, Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe.

 

Stephen H. Brown, 2003, Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail (NY: St. Martin's Press).

 

David V. Burley, 2023, The Birth of Polynesia (Simon Fraser University Press).

 

Joan Druett, 2011, Tupaia: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator (New Zealand:  Random House).

 

Ian Hoskins, 2021, Australia & the Pacific: A History (University of New South Wales Ltd).

 

K.R. Howe [Editor], 2006, Vaka Moana:  Voyages of the Ancestors (University of Hawai'i Press).

Peter Moore, 2018, Endeavour:  The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World (London:  Chatto & Windus).

Hampton Sides, 2024, The Wide Sea:  Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Doubleday).

Nicholas Thomas, 1995, Oceanic Art (London:  Thames & Hudson).

 

 

World War II

 

Caroline Alexander, 2024, Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over The Roof Of The World (NY:  Viking).

 

Kathryn J. Atwood, 2011, Women Heroes of World War II:  26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue (Chicago, Illinois:  Chicago Review Press).

 

Matthew Black, 2022, Operation Underworld:  How The Mafia And US Government Teamed Up To Win World War II (Citadel).

 

Philippe Burrin, 1996, France Under The Germans:  Collaboration and Compromise  [translated from La France ˆ l'Heure Allemande: 1940-1944, 1996, translated by Janet Lloyd] (NY (NY:  The New Press).

 

David Allen Butler, 2002, Warrior Queens:  The Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth in World War II (Great Britain:  Leo Cooper).

 

Thomas N. Carmichael, 1971, The Ninety Days:  Five battles That Changed The World October 1942 - January 1943 [Guadalcanal, El Alamein, Operation Torch, Stalingrad, The Barents Sea] (Old Saybrook, CT:  Konecky & Konecky).

 

John Clancy, 2015, 'The Most Dangerous Moment of the War: Japan's Attack On The Indian Ocean, 1942 (Oxford, UK:  Casement Publishers).

 

Angelo M. Codevilla, 2000, Between the Alps and a Hard Place: Switzerland in World War II and Moral Blackmail Today (NY: Regnery Publishing, Inc.).


Gordon Corrigan, 2006, Blood, Sweat and Arrogance and the Myths of Churchill's War (London:  Phoenix).

 

Ronald Drabkin, 2024, Beverly Hills Spy:  The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor (Harper Collins).

 

Jack Fishman, 2024, And The Walls Came Tumbling Down:  Operation Jericho And The Raid That Saved D-Day (Sapere Books).

 

Paul Fussell, 1988, Thank God For The Atomic Bomb And Other Essays (Simon & Schuster).

 

Juliet Gardiner, 1992, "Overpaid, Oversexed, & Over Here" - The American GI in World War II Britain (NY:  Canopy Books).

 

Margaret Geddes, 2004, Blood, Sweat and Tears:  Australia's WWII remembered by the men and women who lived it (Penguin).

 

Helen Gilbert, 2006, "Okay, Girls - Man Your Bunks!:  Tales from the Life of a WWII Navy Wave (Toledo, Ohio:  Pedestrian Press).

 

Charles Glass, 2013, The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II (Penguin).

 

Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll, Jr., 2023, Ghosts of Honolulu:  A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, And The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor (HarperCollins Focus LLC).

 

Arthur Herman, 2012, Freedom's Forge:  How American Business Produced Victory in World War II (Random House).

 

Bruce Henderson, 2017, Sons And Soldiers:  The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler (NY:  HarperCollins).

 

Charles Higham, 1983, Trading With The Enemy:  An Expose of The Nazi American Money Plot 1933-1949 (NY:  Delacorte Press).

 

Ronald Jackson, 2017, China Clipper:  The Secret Pre-War Story of Pan American's Flying Boats (Lexington, Kentucky).

 

Halik Kochanski, 2022, Resistance:  The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945 (NY:  W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.).

 

Erik Larson, 2020, The Splendid and the Vile:  A Saga Of Churchill, Family, And Defiance During The Blitz (NY:  Crown).

Homer Lea, 1942 edition [with introduction by Clare Booth], The Valor of Ignorance (NY: Harper and Brothers). [Fascinating book first published in 1909 and purported to the "blueprint" for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and an eventual invasion of the west coast of the United States. The 1942 edition includes an introduction by Clare Booth.]

 

Douglas Lockwood, 1966, Australia's Pearl Harbor Darwin, 1942 (Adelaide:  Rigby Limited).

 

Rachel Maddow, 2023, Prequel:  An American Fight Against Fascism (NY:  Crown).

 

Molly Guptill Manning, 2014, When Books Went To War:  The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II.

George Millar, 1974, The Bruneval Raid:  Flashpoint of the Radar War (NY:  Doubleday & Co., Inc.).

Norman Ohler, 2017, Blitzed:  Drugs in the Third Reich [translated by Shaun Whiteside from the 2015 German publication] (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).

Francis Pike, 2015, Hirohito's War:  The Pacific War 1941-1945 (London:  Bloomsbury).   NOTE:  This 1,110 page volume does not have any maps, appendices, or a bibliography; all of these items, and more, are only available on the web at: http://www.francispike.org/

 

Sarah Rose, 2019, D-Day Girls:  The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II (NY:  Crown).

 

Ken Small, 1988, The Forgotten Dead:  Why 946 American servicemen died off the coast of Devon in 1944 - and the man who discovered their true story (London:  Bloomsbury).

 

Donald Thomas, 2003, The Enemy Within:  Hucksters, Racketeers, Deserters, And Civilians During the Second World War (New York University Press).

 

Peter A. Thompson and Robert Macklin, 2000, The Battle of Brisbane:  Australians and the Yanks at War (Sydney:  ABC Books [Australian Broadcasting Corporation]).

 

Peter Thompson, 2008, Pacific Fury:  How Australia And Her Allies Defeated The Japanese (Australia:  William Heinemann).

 

Lawrence Verria & George Galdorisi, 2012, The Kissing Sailor:  The Mystery Behind the Photo That Ended World War II (Annapolis, MD:  Naval Institute Press).

 

Lyuba Vinogradova, 2017,  Avenging Angels:  Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps [translated by Arch Tait] (London:  MacLehose Press).

 

Paul D. Walker, 2003, Truman's Dilemma:  Invasion or The Bomb (Gretna, Louisiana:  Pelican Pub. Co.).

 

Robert K. Wilcox, 2019,  Japan's Secret War:  How Japan's Race to Build Its Own Atomic Bomb Provided the Groundwork for North Korea's Nuclear Program (Third Edition:  Revised and Updated; NY: Permuted Press, LLC) [Well-presented and documented argument that Japan test-fired a nuclear device in Korea on August 10, 1945, prior to the Japanese surrender of September 2, 1945.]

Bill Yenne, 2016, Panic on the Pacific:  How America Prepared for a West Coast Invasion (Washington, DC:  Regnery History).

 

 

Gauguin and His Times

 

Bengt Danielsson, 1966, Gauguin In The South Seas (NY:  Doubleday & Company, Inc.).

 

Franois Cachin, 1992, Gauguin:  The Quest For Paradise (NY:  Harry N. Abrams).

 

Laura Cosendey (Editor), 2023, Paul Gauguin:  The Other and I (Brazil:  Museu de Art de Sao Paulo).

 

Nienke Denenkamp, 2019, The Gauguin Atlas [Translation by Laura Watkinson; originally published in 2018 as De grote Gauguin atlas] (Yale University Press).

 

Anne Distal et. al., 1995, Urban Impressionist (The Art Institute of Chicago).

 

Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2023, Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism (London:  Dulwich Picture Gallery).

 

Flemming Friborg (Editor), 2023, Gauguin:  The Master, the Monster, the Myth (Strandberg Publishing).

 

Paul Gauguin, 1897 [1901], Noa Noa (Translated from the French by P.F. Theis) (NY: The Noonday Press, 1951). [Gauguin's published journal of his initial stay in Tahiti, 1891-1893.]

 

Leo Janse, 2009 [Editor], Vincent Van Gogh: The Letters - The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition, Six Volumes. FASCINATING NOTE:  These six volumes are all available on the web at: http://vangoghletters.org/vg/.

 

Ann Kay, 2020, Berthe Morisot:  Masterpieces of Art (United Kingdom:  Flame Tree Publishing).

 

Ulf Kuster, 2014, Gustave Courbet [1819-1877] (Germany:  Hatje Cantz Verlag).

 

Camille Laurens, 2017, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen:  The True Story Behind Degas's Masterpiece [translated from the French Le petite danseuse de quatorze ans by Willard Wood] (NY:  Other Press).

 

Hether Lemonedes, 2009, Paul Gauguin:  Paris, 1889 (Cleveland Museum of Art).

 

Charles S. Moffett, Ruth Berson, Barbara Lee Wiliams, and Fronia E. Wissman, 1986, The New Painting Impressionism 1874-1886 (The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco).

 

John Rewald, 2023, Paul Gauguin (Legare Street Press).

 

Jean-Dominique Rey, 2023, Berthe Morisot (France:  Flammarion).

 

George T.M. Shackelford and Claire Freches-Thory, 2004, Gauguin Tahiti  (Boston:  Museum of Fine Arts).

 

George T.M. Shackelford, 2013,  Paul Gauguin:  Where Do We Come From?  What Are We?  Where Are We Going?  (Boston:  Museum of Fine Arts).

 

Debora Silverman, 2000, Van Gogh and Gauguin:  The Search For Sacred Art (NY:  Farrar, Strauss And Giroux).

 

Hilary Spurling, 2005,  Matisse The Master:  A Life of Henri Matisse - The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 (NY:  Alfred A. Knopf).    

Once again, the following web page might provide you with some additional information: https://curbanowicz.yourweb.csuchico.edu/CruiseReferences.html.

 

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