Caroline Collins looks at such people as mariners, explorers, whalers and shipbuilders between the 16th and 20th centuries ...

From hilltop citadels to fortified coastal enclaves, we've scoured the world to find the most captivating walled cities, and ...

Simon Park, who teaches Portuguese history and literature at Oxford University, aims to recast the early period of European exploration as a story of disasters rather than successes. His target is ...

ESKERRIK asko!” My friend had been thanking our barman more confidently with each drink, practising the tongue-twister Basque ...

"There are no televisions, radios or telephones and the electric supply is usually turned off between midnight and 6am" ...

Read more: 25 Gorgeous Islands For Vacationing That Won't Break The Bank The area around Cape Fear was known to Spanish and English sailors as far back as the 16th century. Pirates liked to use ...

Scholars have traced a direct line to 16th-century trade routes connecting Mexico’s Pacific coast to Spanish outposts in Asia. Galleons brought over Filipino sailors, enlisted as indentured or ...

the current contest in America was simply the latest stage of the historic struggle against privilege that ran back to the Magna Carta and included the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century ...

Initially one Murad Bey was sent to retrieve the fleet, when he too failed the sultan turned towards the experienced sailor Sidi Ali ... The book also shows his knowledge of the Spanish and Portuguese ...