Speaker’s Book:
- A History of the World in 100 Objects, by Neil MacGregor
Big Money: The Rai Stones of Yap Island
Online:
- Yapese Quarry Sites – Pacific Worlds
- Yap Stones ~ Banque National de Belgique
- The Incredible Giant Stone Coins Of The Pacific Paradise Island Yap – Cools and Fools
- Bitcoins & The Stone Money – Bitcoins and Economy
- Micronesia – the Peculiarities of Yap – Earth of Fire
- David O’Keefe: The King of Hard Currency – Smithsonian
In Search of the Spear of Destiny
Print:
- Mysteries of Templar Treasures & The Holy Grail: Secrets of Rennes Le Cateau, by Lionel Fanthorpe
- The Spear of Destiny, by Trevor Ravenscroft
- The Mark of the Beast, by Trevor Ravenscroft
- Only in Vienna, by Duncan J.D. Smith
- Dictionary of Saints, by John J. Delaney
The Goth King’s Silver Book
Online:
- Codex Argenteus Online – Uppsala University
- Wulfila Project
- Gothic in Unicode – The Unicode Standard
- The Codex Argenteus – The Mystery of the Gothic Silver Bible – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition
- The 6th Century Cure for Anxiety – Daniel Lattier
Print:
- The Goths (The Peoples of Europe), by Peter Heather
- An Introduction to the Gothic Language, by Thomas O. Lambdin
- Theoderic in Italy, by John Moorhead
- Arius: Heresy and Tradition, by Rowan Williams
- Boethius, by John Marenbon
- Rudolf II and His World: A Study in Intellectual History, 1576-1612, by R.J.W. Evans
- Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric, by Veronica Buckley
Cracking the Code of the Mysterious Voynich Manuscript
Online:
- A Proposed Partial Decoding of the Voynich Script – Stephen Bax
- What We Know About the Voynich Manuscript – Sravana Reddy and Kevin Knight
- William F. Friendman’s Transcription of the Voynich Manuscript – AT&T Bell Laboratories
Print:
- The Friar and the Cipher: Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual Manuscript in the Word, by Lawrence Goldstone
- Codex Seraphinianus, by Luigi Serafini
- The Mind Parasites: The Supernatural Metaphysical Cult Thriller, by Colin Wilson
Buried Beards of the Thames
Print:
- Bellarmine and Other German Stoneware Museum
- Beardman Jugs from the Avondster Site – Maritime Lanka
- London in Fragments: A Mudlark’s Treasures, by Edward Sandling
Online:
- Bellarmine and Other German Stoneware Museum
- Beardman Jugs from the Avondster Site – Maritime Lanka
- VOC Historical Society on Facebook
- London Mudlark on Facebook and Bellarmines
- An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Sources on the Archaeology of Old World Dutch Material Culture in the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries – Paul R. Huey
- Jamestown Pottery Reproduction Bellarmine / Bartmann Jug 1978 – Collectors Weekly
- London’s History in Mud: The Woman Collecting What the Thames Washes Up – The Guardian
Print:
- The Bellarmine and Other German Stoneware, by Alex Wright
- London, A History in Maps, by Peter Barber
- A History of Boston in 50 Artifacts, by Joseph M. Bagley
- London in Fragments: A Mudlark’s Treasures, by Edward Sandling
Yeti Parts: The Hunt for the Abominable Snowman
Online:
- Archive of Yeti Articles – Cryptomundo
- Return the Hand
- Letter from Peter Byrne describing his role in the smuggling of the Yeti hand – Return the Hand
- Yeti Finger Mystery Solved by Edinburgh Scientists – BBC.com
Print:
- My Quest for the Yeti: Confronting the Himalaya’s Deepest Mystery, by Reinhold Messner
- Tom Slick: True Life Encounters in Cryptozoology, by Loren Coleman
- “Himalayan Scientific and Mountaineering Expedition, 1960/61: The Scientific Programme” ~ L. G. C. E. Pugh, The Geographical Journal Vol. 128, No. 4 (Dec., 1962), pp. 447-456 – JSTOR
For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Isolde Honore, Egan Hirvela, Frederic Lightning Leist, Leonard Apeltsin, Laura Rubin, and Annetta Black. Thank you!
