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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
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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
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Sarah E. Owens

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

Reviewed by David Salomoni
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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
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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
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Carlos Francisco Moura
Teatro a bordo de naus portuguesas
Lisbon: Caleidoscópio, 2017, 157 pp.


Reviewed by Joana Lima
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David Armitage, Alison Bashford, Sujit Sivasundaram (eds.)
Oceanic Histories
Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 2017, 328 pp.


Reviewed by David Salomoni
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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
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Margaret E. Schotte
Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019, 295 pp.


Reviewed by Silvana Munzi
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Antonio Pigafetta
A Primeira Viagem em Redor do Mundo
Lisbon: Oficina do Livro, 2020, 149 pp.

Reviewed by Joana Lima
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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
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Roger Crowley
Conquerors. How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
London: Faber & Faber, 2015, 412 pp.

Reviewed by David Salomoni
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