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Recommended Books for Your Ship or
Armchair Sailor's Library
Cruising Referenc
- Boatowner’s Mechanical & Electrical Manual: How to Maintain,
Repair, and Improve Your Boat’s Electrical System, Nigel
Calder
- Chapman Piloting, Seamanship & Boat Handling, 63rd
Ed, Elbert S. Malney and Charles Frederic Chapin
- Cruising Chef Cookbook, Michael Greenwald
- Cruiser’s Handbook of Fishing, Scott Bannerof, Wendy
Bannerof
- Cruising Handbook: a Compendium for Coastal and Offshore Sailors,
Nigel Calder
- Essential Galley Companion, Amanda Swan-Neal
- World Cruising Handbook, Jimmy Cornell
- World Cruising Routes, Jimmy Cornell
Nonfiction
Stories: Travel & Adventure, Cruising & Sailing
- Adrift, Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea, Steven Callahan
- Always a Distant Anchorage, Hal Roth
- An Island to Oneself, Tom Neale
- A Year in Provence and Encore Provence, Peter Mayle
- Blown Away, Herb Payson
- Blue Latitudes, Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before,
Tony Horwitz
- BlueShip Zwei Manner und viel Meer, Hubertus Sprungala/Richard
Radtke (German)
- Cape Horn: One Man's Dream, One Woman's Nightmare,
Reanne Hemingway-Douglass
- Cruising is Contagious, Adventures of a Cruising Couple,
Charles E and Corrine C Kanter
- Circumnavigators, the, Small Boat Voyages of Modern Times,
Donald Hlm
- Dark Wind: A Survivor's Tale of Love and Loss, Gordon
Chaplin
- Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls, Edward E. Leslie, Fatu
Hiva, Thor Heyerdahl
- True stories of castaways and other survivors
- Fire, Sebastian Junger, contains a harrowing in-the-trenches
profile of Ahmad Massoud, the Afghan guerrilla leader an ally of the
West for nearly two decades, Massoud was assassinated two days before
the terrorist attacks on the U.S. Junger was in Afghanistan
last December.
- Following Seas: Sailing the Globe, Sounding a Life, Beth
Leonard
- Gentlemen Never Sail to Weather, Denton Richey Moore
- Happy Isles of Oceania, The: Paddling the Pacific, Paul Theroux
- Incredible Journey, The, Tristan Jones
- Letters from the Lost Soul, Five-Year Voyage of Discovery and
Adventure, Bob Bitchin
- My Old Man and the Sea: A Father and Son Sail Around Cape Horn,
David Hays and Daniel Hays
- Perfect Storm, The, Sebastian Junger
- The Proving Ground, G. Bruce Knight
- Sailing Alone Around the World, Joshua Slocum (1956) a classic
- Sailing Promise: Around the World in a Catamaran,Alayne
Main
- Seeteufel, Graf Luckner, (German)
- Survive the SavageSea: 37 Days in Mid-Pacific, Dougall Robertson
(1973) a classic
- Tales of a Sea Gypsy, Ray Jason
- Travelers on a Trade Wind, Marcia Pirie
- Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., a Signet
Classic
- Voyage of Rediscovery, Ben Finney
- Wanderer,Sterling Hayden
- We Followed Odysseus, Hal Roth
Cruising
How To Books
- All in the Same Boat: Family Living Aboard and Cruising, Tom
Neale
- Changing Course: A Woman’s Guide to Choosing the Cruising
Life, Debra Cantrell
- Cruising 101: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Paradise, Amy L. Sullivan,
Kevin J. Donnelly
- Cruising Life, The: A Commonsense Guide for the Would-Be Voyager,
Jim Trefethen
- Cruising Woman’s Advisor, The: How to Prepare for the Voyaging
Life, Diana Jessie
- Sailing: A Woman’s Guide, Doris Colgate
- Voyager’s Handbook, The, Beth Leonard
- Voyaging under Power, Robert P. Beebe, James F. Leishman (Editor)
Guide
and Pilot Books; History and Geography Books
- Australia, The Lonely Planet
- Canary Islands, Lonely Planet Guide
- Captain James Cook, Richard Hough
- Cape VerdeIslands, The Bradt Travel Guide
- Charlie's Charts of Polynesia
- Charlie’s Charts of the WesternCoast of Mexico (including
Baja)
- Cruising Ports: Florida to California via Panama, Captain
Pat and John E. Rains
- France, Catalan Region, Michelin
- Frommer’s Caribbean
- Frommer's Germany
- Frommer's South Pacific
- Getting to Know Panama, Michele LaBrut
- Great Barrier Reef, the Lonely Planet
- Insight Guide Caribbean the Lesser Antilles
- Landfalls of Paradise, Earl Hinz
- Mexican Boating Guide, Captains Pat and John Rains
- Nomads of the Wind: A Natural History of Polynesia, Peter
Crawford
- North Africa, AtlanticCoast of Morocco, Straits of Gibraltar
to Tunisia, Royal Cruising Club, Hans van Rijn and Graham HuttCruising
Ports: Florida to California via Panama, Captains Pat and John
E. Rains
- Path Between the Sea, the, Creator of the Panama Canal,
David McCullough
- Provence, Michelin, The Green Guide
- Queensland, the Lonely Planet
- Sailors Guide to the Windward Islands, Chris Doyle
- Sisters in the Sun, The Story of Suwarrow and Palmerston Atolls,
A.S.Helm, W.H.Percival, Travel Book Club
- Spain, Balearic and Canary Islands, Michelin
- South Pacific Handbook, Moon Travel Handbooks
- The Explorations of capitain James Cock in the Pacific,
as told from selections of his own journals
- The Pacific Crossing Guide, Royal Cruising Club, edited by
Michael Pocock
- Trespassers on Easter Island, Hanns Ebensten
- Vanuatu, The Lonely Planet
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