Visual History of the World; National Geographic, ISBN 978-0-7922-3695-5

ANY of Pierre Burton’s Books, especially The Last Spike,  Klondike: The last Gold Rushand Klondike Fever.

Alexander the Great, a Novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, Translated by Theodora Vasils ISBN 0-8214-0663-9

Travels with a Tangerine: From Morocco to Turkey in the Footsteps of Islam’s Greatest Traveler, Tim McKintosh-Smith, ISBN13: 9780330491143

The Dictionary of Global Culture, Edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ISBN 0-394-58581-X

Ideas: A History from Fire to Freud, Peter Watson, ISBN 0-7538-2089-7

A short history of Progress, Ronald Wright, ISBN 0-88787-706-4

the Mediterranean, Saga of a Sea, Emil Ludwig

The Search for Alexander, Robin Lane Fox, ISBN 0-316-29108-0