To Be Read

Aka The Pile…

Hombres buenos by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Sword and the Scimitar by Ernle Bradford

Petrarch’s Guide to the Holy Land: Itinerary to the Sepulcher of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Francisco Petrarca

Sobre la escritura by Jorge Luis Borges

The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos by Patrick Leigh Fermor

El pintor de las batallas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

A History of My Times by Xenophon

Embajada a Tamerlán by Ruy González de Clavijo

Mediterranean: Portrait of a Sea by Ernle Bradford

O City of Byzantium: Annals of Niketas Choniates by Niketas Choniates

Down to the Sea in Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men by Horatio Clare

The Fall of Carthage by Adrian Goldsworthy

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

Hannibal by Ernle Bradford

The Great Ship: How Battleships Changed the History of War by Ernle Bradford

Galeón: Las aventuras de un navegante español del siglo XVII en travesía del Atlántico by Jesús Sánchez Adalid

Plain Tales from the British Empire: Images of the British in India, Africa and South-East Asia by Charles Allen

Soldados de Salamina by Javier Cercas

Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944: Collaboration, Resistance and Daily Life in Occupied Paris by Jean Guéhenno

La muerte de Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes

The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece by Josiah Ober

English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Relacion historica del viage a la America Meridional by Jorge Juan Y Santacilia

A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century by J. W. Burrow

A History of the Classical Greek World by P. J. Rhodes

M: The Caravaggio Enigma by Peter Robb

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Letters of Pliny the Younger by Pliny the Younger

South Sea Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson

London Perceived by V. S. Pritchett

Annali veneti dall’anno 1457 a 1500 by Domenico Malipiero

The Sea Devil: The Story of Count Felix Von Luckner, the German War Raider by Thomas Lowell

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

The Spanish Temper by V.S. Pritchett

Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilisation by Richard Miles

The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story behind the Little Prince by Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

Amo, Amas, Amat… and All That: How to Become a Latin Lover by Harry Mount

The Peloponnesian War: Athens & Sparta in Savage Conflict 431-404 by Donald Kagan

Empire of Blue Water: Henry Morgan and the Pirates Who Ruled the Caribbean Waves by Stephan Tailty

El aventurero Vivar by David López

Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener

Sailing Alone around the World by Joshua Slocum

Travels of Ibn Jubayr by Abu Al-husayn Muhammad Jubayr

The Silent Service by John Parker

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War by Gerald Brenan

Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean by Philip Mansel

The Mediterranean in the Ancient World by Fernand Braudel

The Greek and Persian Wars 499-386 BC by Philip de Souza

The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing by T. J. Clark

The Face of Spain by Gerald Brenan

Barbarians by Terry Jones

Speak for England by James Hawes

I Am a Cat by Natsume Soseki

Golden Hill by Francis Spufford

Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry