Book Reviews

Elizabeth Horodowich

The Venetian Discovery of America: Geographic Imagination and Print Culture in the Age of Encounters
Chicago: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 325 pp.

Reviewed by David Salomoni

Matteo Valleriani, Giulia Giannini, and Enrico Giannetto eds.

Scientific Visual Representations in History
Cham: Springer, 2023, 360 pp.

Reviewed by David Salomoni

José Manuel Malhão Pereira

Estudos da história da Náutica e das navegações de alto-mar (4 vols)
Lisbon: Comissão Cultural da Marinha, 2012, 2013, 2019, 2021, 183 + 318 + 458 + 469 pp.

Reviewed by Juan Acevedo

Mick Ashworth

Why North is Up: Maps Conventions and Where They Come From
Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2019, 224 pp.

Reviewed by Silvana Munzi

Ricardo Padrón

The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020, 346 pp.

Reviewed by David Salomoni

Jorge Semedo de Matos

Roteiros e rotas portuguesas no Oriente nos séculos XVI e XVII
Lisbon: Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau – Fundação Jorge Álvares, 2018, 471 pp.

Reviewed by Luana Giurgevich

Sarah E. Owens

Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2017, 195 pp.

Reviewed by David Salomoni

Rolf Strootman, Floris van den Eijnde and Roy van Wijk (eds.)

Empires of the Sea. Maritime Networks in World History
Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2020, 361 pp.

Reviewed by Nuno Vila-Santa

Abdulrahman Al Salimi, Eric Staples

A Maritime Lexicon. Arabic Nautical Terminology in the Indian Ocean
Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2019, 641 pp.

Reviewed by Juan Acevedo

Carlos Francisco Moura

Teatro a bordo de naus portuguesas
Lisbon: Caleidoscópio, 2017, 157 pp.

Reviewed by Nuno Vila-Santa

David Armitage, Alison Bashford, Sujit Sivasundaram (eds.)

Oceanic Histories
Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 2017, 328 pp.

Reviewed by David Salomoni

Maura R. O’Connor

Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019, 354 pp.

Reviewed by Juan Acevedo

Margaret E. Schotte

Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019, 295 pp.

Reviewed by Silvana Munzi

Antonio Pigafetta

A Primeira Viagem em Redor do Mundo
Lisbon: Oficina do Livro, 2020, 149 pp.

Reviewed by Joana Lima

Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen

The Bookshop of the World. Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age
New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2019, 485 pp.

Reviewed by Nuno Vila-Santa

Roger Crowley

Conquerors. How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
London: Faber & Faber, 2015, 412 pp.

Reviewed by David Salomoni