A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro - Reeve, London, 1853.
The Malay Archipelago. 2 volumes - Macmillan, London, 1869.
Tropical Nature and Other Essays - London, 1878.
The Wonderful Century - Its Successes and Its Failures - Sonnenschein, London, 1898.
Studies: Scientific and Social. 2 volumes - Macmillan, London, 1900.
My Life - A record of events and opinions. 2 volumes - Chapman, London, 1905.
The Revolt of Democracy (with a foreword by James Marchant) - Cassell, London, 1913.
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809 - 1882 (edited by Nora Barlow) by Charles Darwin - Collins, London, 1958.
The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection (edited with an Introduction by J.W. Burrow) by Charles Darwin - Penguin Books, London, 1988.
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Including an Autobiographical Chapter: 3 volumes edited by Francis Darwin - John Murray, London, 1887.
Darwin: A Life in Science by Michael White and John Gribbin - Simon and Schuster Ltd., London, 1995.
The Brendan Voyage - Hutchison, London, 1978 and Arrow Books Ltd., 1979 (pbk).
The Jason Voyage - Century Hutchison Ltd., London, 1985.
The Sindbad Voyage - Arrow Books (Century Travellers Series), London, 1991 (pbk).
The China Voyage - Abacus, London, 1995 (pbk)
"The Voyage of the Brendan: Did Irish Monks Discover America?"- National Geographic 152, December 1977.
"In the Wake of Sindbad" - National Geographic 162, July 1982.
Journeys of the Great Explorers edited by Helen Douglas-Cooper - A.A. Publishing, Hampshire, 1994
Discovering the New World - The Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Andrew Langley - Kibworth Books (Great Explorers Series), Leicester, 1994.
Exploring the Pacific - The Expedition of Captain Cook by Andrew Langley - Kibworth Books (Great Explorers Series), Leicester, 1994.
Brendan the Navigator by George Otto Simms - The O'Brien Press, Dublin, 1989.
Submarines and Ships by Richard Humble - Hamlyn Children's Books, London, 1995
Ships through Time by Roy Richards - Macdonald Young Books Ltd., Hemel Hempstead, 1995.
Dorling Kindersley publish the attractive Eyewitness Science and The Children's Illustrated Encyclopaedia for younger readers.
Also of use may be the various guides of the Usborne Series, e.g. The Usborne Spotter Guide, The Usborne Conservation Guide and The Usborne World Wildlife Series. The Usborne Book of World Geography gives a good overview of life on earth.
One book of particular interest in the Usborne Series is detailed below:
Usborne Science & Experiments - Planet Earth by Fiona Watt - Usborne Publishing Ltd., London, 1991.
The Earth Science Book - Activities for Kids by Dinah Zike - John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 1993.
Each class teacher will also find many useful texts in their own class libraries which may illuminate many of the issues raised in the course of the Spice Islands Voyage.
The Story of Indonesia's Spice Trade by J. H. Brierly - Oxford University Press, New York, 1994.
Indonesia by Nelles Guides - Distributed by GeoCenter, Basingstoke, 1995 (Second Edition).
The World Book Enyclopaedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica are useful sources of general information. The arrival of computers with CD-ROMS now means that children can utilise a whole variety of multimedia educational tools in their own classrooms. Access to the Internet will enable the teacher to access information relative to The Spice Islands Voyage which would otherwise not be readily available. It also opens up the opportunity for children to communicate with their counterparts in distant parts of the world.