Cruise Lecture Topics

Ninety—and Counting…. Here is a list of my cruise lecture topics to date:
Amazing Alexander: Humboldt in South America
The Amazon
America’s Sweetheart and the “It” Girl: Mary Pickford and Clara Bow
Antonio Vivaldi and the Pietà
A Study in Sherlock: Arthur Conan Doyle and the World’s Most Famous Detective
“As Far as I Think It Possible for Man to Go”: The Life, Death, and Legacy of Captain Cook
Asian Warriors and Queens
Bar Harbor
Before the Maya: The Earliest Mexican Civilizations
Before Starbucks: The Fully Caffeinated History of Coffee
Bosom Enemies: The Acadians and the Conquest of Canada
Bronze Age Women of the Aegean
Called by the Wild: Jack London, American Adventurer
Caravaggio: Bad Boy of the Baroque
Carthage: The Other Ancient Mediterranean Empire
Catherine the Great
Charles Darwin in South America
The Crusades
Digging Old Ground: The First Female Archaeologists
El Dorado: The Story Behind the Legend
Enchanted isles, Sailing Ships, and the World’s Most Famous Whale: Herman Melville’s Life and Literature
The Face: Portrayals of Jesus in Art
Ferdinand and Isabella and the End of Convivencia
Finding Odysseus
The First Australians
The Fish that Launched a Thousand Ships : The Story of Cod
For Love and Liberty I: Simon Bolivar and Manuela Saenz
For Love and Liberty II: Giuseppe and Anita Garibaldi
The Founding of New Zealand
The French and Indian War
Gentle Giant: Pedro II of Brazil
Getting to Know Anna: The Woman Behind the Story of The King and I
God, Gold, and Gloriana: The Story of Sir Francis Drake
The Golden Age of Islamic Spain
The Gospel of Glaciers: John Muir
The Great Eruption: How the Santorini Volcano Changed the Mediterranean
Henry the Navigator
Hindu Mythology
Hinduism for Beginners
“I Put All My Genius Into My Life. I Put Only My Talent Into My Writing”: A Portrait of Oscar Wilde
Isn’t It Romantic? Byron, Shelley, Love, Death, and Italy
King Arthur: Medieval Man of Mystery
Loneliness and Light: The Art of Edward Hopper
Magic Hammers, Missing Eyes, and Rainbow Bridges: Norse Mythology
The Maori
Marooned! Life Stories and Lessons from Shipwrecks
Mayhem, Mutiny and a Masterpiece in the Louvre: The Raft of the Medusa
The Merry History of Robin Hood
Midsummer Magic
Monaco and the Grimaldis
Monterey Pop and the Summer of Love
“The Most Beautiful Adventure”: Robert Louis Stevenson
Move Over Superman: Beowulf, The First Superhero
Mutiny Goes to the Movies: Bounty, Potemkin, and Amistad
Never Silent: Women in Early Hollywood
Nightmare Voyage: Magellan and the Armada de Moluccas
Nineteen Months to the Pacific: The Lewis and Clark Expedition
North to Alaska: The Gold Rush
The Not Plain and Never Bland Story of Vanilla
The Olympics
People of the Tides: The Tlingit Nation
Peter the Great and His Times
The Portuguese in Brazil
Putting the Oy in Ahoy: Piracy and the Jews
The Reconquista
The Religions of Vietnam
Rise, Fall, Repeat: A Brief History of the Acropolis of Athens
Rotgut, Riches and Rebellion: How Rum Shaped American History
Rounding the Cape: Vasco da Gama and the Search for India
The Russians in Alaska
Silent Sentinels: the First Civilizations of Peru
”Something Bigger than Fact”: The Art of Emily Carr
Spice! How Cinnamon, Cloves, and Nutmeg Changed the Worlds
Tempest in a Teapot: The Surprising History of the World’s Favorite Beverage
The Stripper and the Swineherd: Justinian and Theodora
“Thar She Blows!” A History of Atlantic Whaling
“There Is Practically Nothing Left”: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
”The Thief Colony”: The Founding of Australia
“To Go a-Pyrating”: Who, What and Why Were the Pirates of the Caribbean?
To Live and Die in Pompeii
Trailblazers: Gold Rush Women
Unlikely Allies: The Headhunters of Borneo in World War II
Understanding Buddhist Art
Unvanquished: The Spanish Conquest of Chile
The Vietnam War, Part 1: Colonialism , Conquest and Conflict
The Vietnam War, Part 2: The American War
Venetian Visionary: the Art of Titian
The Vikings
The Vikings in North America
Wayfaring: The Navigational Genius of the Pacific Islanders
When Africans Ruled
Women of the High Seas
Women Who Wouldn’t: Feisty Females of the British Isles
Zheng He and the Chinese Treasure Fleet
PLUS destination lectures for more than 50 ports in countries all over the world