Since 2000 I have written 44 book reviews for a range of journals (the Journal of Maritime Archaeology, the Journal of Transport History, Historical Archaeology, Choice, the International Journal of Maritime History, the Nautical Research Journal, and The Great Circle)
Year | Reviewed Title | Journal |
2024 or 2025 | Ready to Dive: Five Decades of Adventure in the Abyss, by Curt Newport | International Journal of Maritime History, submitted |
2023 | Out of the Depths: A History of Shipwrecks, by Alan G. Jamieson | International Journal of Maritime History, 35(4; November): 691-693. |
2023 | British Naval Trawlers and Drifters in Two World Wars from the John Lambert Collection, edited by Steve R. Dunn | Nautical Research Journal, 68(1; Spring): 93-94. |
2023 | From War to Peace: The Conversion of Naval Vessels after Two World Wars, by Nick Robins | Nautical Research Journal, Vol. 68(2; Summer): online. |
2021 | Robert J. Walker: The History and Archaeology of a U.S. Coast Survey Steamship by James P. Delgado and Stephen D. Nagiewicz | Journal of Maritime Archaeology, 16(1): 381-383. |
2019 | Formation Processes of Maritime Archaeological Landscapes by Alicia Caporasa (ed.) | Journal of Maritime Archaeology, 16(2):315-317. |
2013 | Re-inventing the Ship: Science, Technology and the Maritime World, 1800-1918 by Don Leggett and Richard Dunn (eds.) | Journal of Transport History, 34(2):223-225. |
2012 | Shore-based Whalers of Western Australia: Historical Archaeology of a Maritime Frontier by Martin Gibbs | Historical Archaeology, 46(2):176-177. |
2012 | Ships from the depths: Deepwater archaeology by Fredrik Søreide | Choice, 49 (January) |
2011 | Maritime Maryland: A History by William S. Dudley | Choice, 48 (June) |
2011 | Archaeology and the sea in Scandinavia and Britain: A personal account by Ole Crumlin-Pedersen | Choice, 48 (March):1369 |
2010 | Khubilai Khan’s lost fleet: in search of a legendary armada by James P. Delgado | Choice, 47(February):1135 |
2010 | Gold Rush Port: The Maritime Archaeology of San Francisco’s Waterfront by James P. Delgado | Choice, 47(February):1142 |
2010 | California maritime archaeology: A San Clemente Island Perspective by L. Mark Raab, Jim Cassidy, Andrew Yatsko, and William J. Howard | Choice, 47(May):1736 |
2009 | Titanic: The Ship Magnificent, Volumes 1 and 2 by Bruce Beveridge, Scott Andrew, Steve Hall and Daniel Klistorner | in Choice, 46(11):2138. |
2009 | The Man Who Stole the Cyprus byWarwick Hirst | International Journal of Maritime History, 21(1):407-408 |
2009 | The Archaeology of Alcohol and Drinking by Frederick H. Smith | Choice,47(October):350 |
2009 | No Ordinary War: The Eventful Career of U-604 by Christian Prag | Nautical Research Journal, 54(4): 254-256 |
2009 | Gold Rush Port: The Maritime Archaeology of San Francisco’s Waterfront by James P. Delgado | International Journal of Maritime History, 21(2):424-425 |
2009 | Archaeological Oceanography by Robert D. Ballard | Choice, 46(June):1980 |
2008 | Whalers and Free Men by Susan Lawrence | Historical Archaeology, 42(2):173-174 |
2008 | Unfinished Voyages: Western Australian Shipwrecks 1622-1850 by Graeme Henderson | International Journal of Maritime History, 20(1):412-414 |
2008 | The way of the ship: America’s maritime history re-envisioned by Alex Roland, W. Jeffrey Bolster and Alexander Keyssar | Choice, 46(1):180 |
2008 | Shipwrecks, sea raiders, and maritime disasters along the Delmarva coast, 1632-2004 by Donald G. Shomette | Choice, 46(3):588-589 |
2007 | X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy by Russell K. Skowronek and Charles R. Ewen (eds.) | Choice, 44(8): 1392 |
2007 | Historical archaeology: Why the past matters by Barbara J. Little | Choice, 45(4): 671 |
2007 | Brutality on Trial: Hellfire Pedersen, Fighting Hansen, and the Seaman’s Act of 1915 by E. Kay Gibson | The Great Circle, 29(2): 47-49. |
2006 | The British Whaling Trade by Gordon Jackson | The Great Circle, 28(2): 60-61. |
2006 | Sealed by Time: The Loss and Recovery of the Mary Roseby Peter Marsden | Historical Archaeology, 40(2): 84-85. |
2006 | Doing Archaeology: A Cultural Resource Management Perspective by Thomas King | Choice, 43(7):1267-1268. |
2006 | Discovering the Great South Land by Byron Heath | Nautical Research Journal, 51(4):246 |
2006 | Australian Migrant Ships 1946-1977 by Peter Plowman | International Journal of Maritime History, 18(2):526-527 |
2006 | Archaeologist’s Toolkit, by Larry J. Zimmerman and William Green (eds.) | Historical Archaeology, 40(2): 97-99 |
2005 | The Maritime Heritage of the Cayman Islands by Roger C. Smith | The Great Circle,27(1): 52-53 |
2005 | Submerged Cultural Resource Management: Preserving out Sunken Maritime Heritage by James D. Spirek and Della A. Scott-Ireton (eds.) | Historical Archaeology39(2):147-148 |
2005 | End of Voyages: The Afterlife of a Ship by Michael Stammers | Sea History, No. 110: 43-44 |
2004 | International Handbook of Underwater Archaeology by Carol V. Ruppe and Janet F. Barstad (eds.) | The Great Circle26(2):66-69 |
2003 | Tidewater Time Capsule by Donald G. Shomette | The Great Circle, 25(1):49-50 |
2002 | Down East: A Maritime History of Maine by Lincoln P. Paine | The Great Circle, 24(1):57-58 |
2001 | Shipwrecks on the Chesapeake by Donald G. Shomette | The Great Circle, 23(2):58-59 |
2001 | Nautical Archaeology on the Foreshore by Gustav Milne, Damian Goodburn, and Colin McKewan | The Great Circle, 23(1): 57-59 |
2000 | The Persistence of Sail in the Age of Steam by Donna Souza | The Great Circle, 22(2):71-72 |
2000 | HMS Sirius 1790: An Illustrated catalogue of artefacts recovered from the wreck site at Norfolk Island by Myra Stanbury | The Great Circle, 22(1):51-52 |
2000 | Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay and other Lost Tales of the Chesapeake by Donald G. Shomette | The Great Circle, 22(1):32-34 |