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VOYAGES AND TRAVELS (Non-fiction,  personal accounts)

 

Baily, Maurice and Maralyn. 117 Days Adrift.  PB. 1992

 

Bartlett, Michael, & Fishman, Joanne A., The Sailing Book. (Collection of Stories)  1982

 

Baumgartner, Peter J.  London Goes to Sea: Restoring and Sailing an Old Boat on a Budget. 2004.

 

Browne, Whitman T.  The Christena Disaster in Retrospect: Error, Tragdey, Challenge, and Hope. A        Caribbean Story. 1985. 

 

Bruce, Erroll. When the Crew Matter Most: An Ocean Racing Story. 1961

 

Buckley, Jr., William F. Atlantic High.  (Sail across the Atlantic.) 1982

 

Coleman, Charles. Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!: This is the Haleakala. 1992.

 Coles, K. Allard. Heavy Weather Sailing. 1981 

Conner, Dennis. Comeback: My race for the America's Cup. 1987                                                 

 

Chichester, Sir Francis   Gipsy Moth Circles the World. 1967

 

Greenwald, Michael. Survivor: Collection of true survival stories. 1989

 

Heckman, Richard. Yankees Under Sail. A Collection of Best Sea Stories from Yankee Magazine            1968

 

Hinz, Earl. Sail Before Sunset. 1979

 

Hitz-Holman, Betsy. Sitting Ducks. 1983

 Hughes, Lee. The Biggest Boat I could afford: Sailing up the U.S. Coast in a dinghy. 2004

                                                                                                                                               

Hurst, A.A.  The Music of Five Oceans (Collection of Sea lore). 1961

 

Kinder, Gary.  Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea. (PB) 1999

 

Lewis, Cam, & Levitt, Michael. Around the World in Seventy-nine Days. 1996. (PB)

 

Lundy, Derek. Godforsaken Sea. Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters.   1998.

 

Maas, Peter. The Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History 1999.

 

Marshall, Roger. The Experience of a Lifetime: Sailing the NY 40. 2007.

 

Massey, Hart. The Leaky Iron Boat. 1992 

 

Mowat, Farley,  The Boat who Wouldn't Float. 1970 (PB)

 

Neider, Charles, (ed). Great Shipwrecks and Castaways. Authentic Accounts of Disasters at Sea.             (1540 – 1912)  1989.

 

Nichols, Peter.  Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat.1998

 

Pardey, Lin and Larry. Cruising in Seraffyn. 1976

 

Plummer, Henry. The Boy, Me, and the Cat: Life Aboard a Small Boat, from Massachusetts to Florida                and back  in 1912.  2003.

 

Rousmaniere, John. Fastnet, Force 10. 1980

 

Saunders, Mike.  The Walkabouts: a Family at Sea. 1975   

 

Seyfareth, Fritz. Mavericks in Paradise.  Collection. 16 true stories – Caribbean. 40 pages. 1985

                                                                                   

Spectre, Peter. A Passage in Time Along the Coast of Maine. 1991

 

Snaith, William.  Across the Western Ocean.: From the log of the Figaro on a Transatlantic Cruise            and a Transatlantic Race with some sea-bourne Meditations of her Skipper.  1966.

 

Snaith, William. On the Wind's Way. The Story of an Atlantic Race.  1973

 

Spiess, Gerry. Alone Against the Atlantic. 1981

 

Swett, Steven  23 Days in the North Atlantic: The story of Leda's passage from Woods Hole to              Scotland and the five men who sailed her.    (2nd edition)  2002 

 

Thomas, Lowell. Count Luckner, the Sea Davil. 1928

 

Thorpe, Nick.   Adrift in Caledonia: boat-hitching for the  Unenlightened. 2006

 

Tyng, Charles. Before the Wind: The Memoir of an American Sea Captain. 1808 – 1833. 1999

 

Vasey, Paul. The Inland Sea. A Journey through the Great Lakes. 1987

 

Wadleigh, George Remey  We Called it a Vacation. (4-month cruise to the Bahamas). 1950

 

Watson, Tom. Pacific Passage: Adventure with Sailor, Explorer, Aviator, and former IBM Chief Executive Tom Watson. 1993

 

Yankees Under Sail. Edited by Richard Heckman. Best sea stories from Yankee Magazine. Pb 1968