The Sea and Ships

The 462 books on this CD include fiction by such authors as Conrad, Melville, and London; stories for children; history; religion/myth/legend; and books about shipwrecks, sea creatures, pirates, and floods.

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Fiction and Poetry about Ships and the Sea

Collections

• Great Sea Stories edited by Joseph Lewis French
• The Shanty Book edited by richard Runciman Terry
• Stories by English Authors: the Sea
• The Extraodinary Adventure of a Chief Mate by W. Clark Russell
• Quarantine Island by Sir Walter Besant
• The Rock Scorpions by Anonymous
• The Master of the "Chrysolite by G.B. O'Halloran
• "Petrel" and "The Black Swan" by Anonymous
• Melissa's Tour by Grant Allen

Anderdecken's Message Home by Anonymous

Horatio Alger

• Randy of the River or The Adventures of a Young Deckhand

Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825-1894)

• The Battery and the Boiler
• Battles with the Sea
• Black Ivory
• The Coral Island: a Tale of the Pacific Ocean
• The Coxswain's Bride
• The Crew of the Water Wagtail
• The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands
• The Island Queen
• Jarwin and Cuffy
• Jeff Benson, or the Young Coastguardsman
• The Life of a Ship from Launch to the Wreck
• The Lighthouse
• Lonely Islandor the Refuge of the Mutineers
• The Madman and the Pirate
• Man on the Ocean, a Book about Boats and Ships
• The Middy and the Moors, an Algerine Tale of Piracy and Slavery
• The Ocean and Its Wonders
• The Pirate City, a Tale of the Pirates of the City of Algiers, and their Defeat of the British Navy
• The Red Eric
• The Walrus Hunters
• The World of Ice or the Whaling Cruise of the Dolphin
• The Young Trawler

Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

• A Drama on the Seashore

Robert Barr (1850-1912)

• In a Steamer Chair and other Shipboard Stories

Bliss Carman

• Ballads of Lost Haven: a Book of the Sea

Charles E. Carryl

• The Admiral's Caravan

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

• Rime of the Ancient Mariner (poem)

Harry Collingwood

• The Cruise of the "Nonsuch" Buccaneer
• The Cruise of the Thetis: a Tale of the Cuban Insurrection
• For Treasure Bound
• The Log of a Privateersman
• The Log of the "Flying Fish", a Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure
• A Middy of the King
• A Middy of the Slave Squadron, a West African Story
• The Missing Merchantman
• Overdue, the Story of a Missing Ship
• The Pirate Island, a Story of the South Pacific
• A Pirate of the Caribees
• The Rover's Secret, a Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba
• The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn
• Turned Adrift
• Two Gallant Sons of Devon
• Under the Meteor Flag, Log of a Midshipman during hte French Revolutionary War

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

• Almayer's Folly
• Amy Foster (short story)
• Arrow of Gold
• Chance
• End of the Tether
• Falk
• Gaspar Ruiz
• The Heart of Darkness
• Lord Jim
• The Mirror of the Sea
• The Nigger of the Narcissus
• Nostromo
• Notes on Life and Letters
• Outcast of the Islands
• A Personal Record
• The Rescue
• The Secret Sharer (short story)
• Set of Six
• The Shadow Line
• Some Reminiscences
• Tales of Unrest
• Tomorrow (short story)
• Twixt Land and Sea
• Typhoon
• Victory
• Within the Tides
• Youth (short story)

James Fennimore Cooper (1789-1851)

• Afloat and Ashore (1844)
• The Crater or Vulcan's Peak: a Tale of the Pacific, 1863
• Home as Found, a sequel to Homeward Bound, 1838
• Homeward Bound or the Chase: a Tale of the  Sea, 1838
• Jack Tier or the Florida Reef (1848)
• The Lake Gun (story)
• Miles Wallingford, a sequel to Afloat and Ashore, 1844
• Ned Myers or A Life Before the Mast, 1843
• The Pilot, a Tale of the Sea, 1824
• The Red Rover
• The Sea Lions or the Lost Sealers, 1849
• The Two Admirals
• The Water-Witch

James Oliver Curwood (1879-1927)

• The Courage of Captain Plum

Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882)

• Two Years Before the Mast

Holman Day

• The Skipper and the Skipped, being the shore log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)

• Captain Singleton
• Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
• Of Captain Mission
• Robinson Crusoe

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

• A Message from the Sea (short story)

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

• The Voyage of Captain Popanille

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

• The Tragedy of the Korosko

Edward Ellis

• Adrift in the Wilds or The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys

George Manville Fenn

• The Black Bar
• Blue Jackets or the Log of the Teaser
• Cormorant Crag, a Tale of the Smuggling Days
• Gil the Gunner, or the Youngest Officer in the East
• King o' the Beach, a Tropic Tale
• The Lost Middy, Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap
• Middy and Ensign
• Mother Carey's Chicken
• The Ocean Cat's Paw, the Story of a Strange Cruise
• The Powder Monkey
• Rob Harlow's Adventures, a Story of the Grand Chaco
• Sail Ho! or a Boy at Sea
• Steve Young, or the Voyage of the "Hvalross" to the Icy Seas
• Syd Belton, or the Boy Who Would not Go to Sea
• To the West
• Trapped by Malays, a Tale of Bayonet and Kris

Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

• Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon

James Henry Foss

• The Gentleman from Everywhere, 1903

Edward Everett Hale

• The Man Without a Country and Other Tales

Charles Boardman Hawes (1889-1923)

• The Mutineers

Helen Hay

• The Rose of Dawn, a Tale of the South Sea

G.A. Henty (1832-1902)

• Among Malay Pirates
• By England's Aid or The Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604)
• With Moore at Corunna

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918)

• The Boats of Glen Carrig
• The Ghost Pirates
• House on the Borderland

Homer (750? BC - 650? BC)

• Odyssey
• translated to English by Alexander Pope
• translated to English by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang
• translated to English by Samuel Butler
• Stories from the Odyssey retold by H.L. Havell

Andrew J. Howell, Jr.

• Money Island

John Conroy Hutcheson

• Afloat at Last
• Bob Strong's Holiday or Adrift in the Channel
• Crown and Anchor
• On Board the Esmeralda, or Martin Leigh's Log
• The Penang Pirate
• Picked Up at Sea, or the Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
• The White Squall
• The Wreck of the Nancy Bell, or Cast Away on Kerguelen Land
• Young Tom Bowing, the Boys of the British Navy

Washington Irving (1783-1859)

• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, 1837

W.W. Jacobs

• The Skipper's Wooing and the Brown Man's Servant

Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)

• Three Men in a Boat

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

• Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
• Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Jerome Lobo, translated by Samuel Johnson

Mary Johnston (1870-1936)

• Sir Mortimer, 1904

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)

• Westward Ho

W.H.G. Kingston

• Ben Burton, or Born and Bred at Sea
• Ben Hadden, or Do Right, Whatever Comes of It
• The Boy Who Sailed with Blake
• Captain Mugford or Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors
• Charley Laurel, a Story of Adventure by Sea and Land
• Dick Cheveley, His Adventures and Misadventures
• From Powder Monkey to Admiral, a Story of Naval Adventure
• Happy Jack and Other Tales of the Sea
• Hurricane Hurry
• In the Eastern Seas
• James Braithwaite, the Supercargo: the Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat
• Little Peter, the Ship Boy
• The Loss of the Royal George
• Marmaduke Merry, a Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days
• The Missing Ship, the Log of the "Ouzel" Gallery
• My First Voyage to Southern Seas
• Our Sailors, Gallant Deeds of the British Navy During Queen Victoria's Reign
• Paddy Finn
• Paul Gerrard, the Cabin Boy
• Peter the Whaler
• Peter Trawl, the Adventures of a Whaler
• The Pirate of the Mediterranean, a Tale of the Sea
• Roger Willoughby, a Story of the Times of Benbow
• Salt Water, the Sea Lifea nd Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman
• Saved from the Sea, the Loss of the Viper and her Crew's Saharan Adventures
• The South Sea Whaler
• Sunshine Bill
• The Three Admirals, Life in the Royal Navy in the 1860s
• The Three Lieutenants, Life in the Royal Navy int he 1860s
• The Three Midshipman
• True Blue -- a British Seaman of the Old School
• Twice Lost
• Two Shipmates
• Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin
• Will Weatherhelm, the Yarn of an Old Sailor
• A Yacht Voyage Round England

Rudyard Kipling

• Sea Warfare, 1916

Jack London (1876-1916)

• Adventure, 1911
• The Cruise of the Dazzler, 1902
• The Cruise of the Snark
• The Human Drift
• The Human Drift
• Small-Boat Sailing
• Four Horses and a Sailor
• Nothing that Ever Came to Anything
• That Dead Men Rise up Never
• A Classic of the Sea
• A Wicked Woman (Curtain Raiser)
• The Birth Mark (Sketch)
• Jerry of the Islands
• Michael, Brother of Jerry
• The Mutiny of the Elsinore
• On the Makaloa Mat: Island Tales
• On the Makaloa Mat
• The Bones of Kahekili
• When Alice Told her Soul
• Shin-Bones
• The Water Baby
• The Tears of Ah Kim
• The Kanaka Surf
• The Sea Wolf
• Son of the Wolf
• The White Silence
• The Son of the Wolf
• The Men of Forty Mile
• In a Far Country
• To the Man on the Trail
• The Priestly Prerogative
• The Wisdom of the Trail
• The Wife of a King
• An Odyssey of the North
• South Sea Tales
• The House of Mapuhi
• The Whale Tooth
• Mauki
• "Yah! Yah! Yah!"
• The Heathen
• The Terrible Solomons
• The Inevitable White Man
• The Seed of McCoy
• Stories of Ships and the Sea
• Tales of the Fish Patrol

Sir John Mandeville (1300-1399?)

• Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1366)

Frederick Marryat (1792-1852)

• Children of the New Forest
• Frank Mildway
• Jacob Faithful
• The King's Own
• The Little Savage
• Masterman Ready
• Mr. Midshipman Easy
• The Mission or Scenes in Africa
• Newton Forster
• Peter Simple and the Three Cutters (two volumes in one file)
• The Phantom Ship
• The Pirate
• The Poacher
• Poor Jack
• Rattlin the Reeder by Edward Howard, edtied by Captain Marryat
• Snarleyyow
• The Three Cutters
• Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet

Herman Melville (1819-1891)

• Billy Budd
• Israel Potter
• Mardi
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Moby Dick
• Omoo
• Redburn
• Typee: a Romance of the South Seas
• The White Jacket

Kirk Munroe

• Under the Great Bear

Captain Mayne Reid

• The Boy Slaves
• The Castaways
• The Flag of Distress

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

• The Tempest

Norman Springer

• The Blood Ship

Julian Street

• Ship-Bored

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

• Gulliver's Travels
• Tale of a Tub

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

• Catriona, sequel to Kidnapped
• In the South Seas
• Inland Voyage
• Island Night's Entertainment
• Kidnapped
• Treasure Island

Theodore Thinker

• Jack Mason, the Old Sailor, 1850

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

• Huckleberry Finn
• Life on the Mississippi

Jules Verne (1828-1905)

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas, in English
• Around the World in 80 Days, in English
• The Mysterious Island
• In Search of the Castaways, in English
• The Waif of the "Cynthia" by Jules Verne and Andre Laurie

Virgil (70-19 BC)

• Aeneid

Isaak Walton (1593-1683)

• The Compleat Angler
• Waltoniana

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Historical Ship Wrecks

• The Young Captives: a Narrative of the Shipwreck and Sufferings of John and William Doyley, 1850
• The Boats of Glen Carrig by William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918)
• Jethou or Crusoe Lif in the Channel Isles by E.R. Suffling
• The Loss of the Kent East Indiaman in the Bay of Biscay by General Sir Duncan MacGregor
• Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy 1793 to 1849 by William Gilly, 1850
• Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Brig Betsey of Wiscassset, Maine, and Murder of Five of Her Crew by Pirates on the Coast of Cuba, Dec. 1824 by Daniel Collins
• Perils and Captivity, comprising the sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa in the year 1816; Narrative of the Captivity of M. de Brisson in the Year 1785; and Voyage of Madame Godin Along the River of the Amazons, in the Year 1770
• The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters, edited by Logan Marshall
• The Loss of the Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons by Lawrence Beesley (a survivor)

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Supernatural

• The Ghost Ship by Richard Middleton (British, 1882-1911)
• The Boats of Glen Carrig by William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918)
• The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918)
• House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918)
• Weird Tales from Northern Seas from the Danish of Jonas Lee by Nisbet Bain

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Stories for Children

• Jack Mason: the Old Sailor by Francis C. Woodworth (writing under the pseudonym of Theodore Thinker), 1850
• The Boy Allies with Uncle Sam's Cruisers by Robert Drake
• The Boy Allies at Jutland or the Greatest Naval Battle of History by Robert Drake
• The Boy Scouts in a Submarine by Harvey Ralphson
• The Boy Scouts on a Submarine by John Blaine
• The Boy with the US Fisheries by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
• The Cruise of the Noah's Ark by David Cory
• Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home by Gabrielle Jackson
• The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
• Motor Girls on Waters Blue by Margaret Penrose
• The Moving Picture Girls at Sea by Laura Lee Hope
• Raftmates, a Story of the Great River by Kirk Munroe
• Shipwreck, a Story for the Young by Joseph Spillman
• The Submarine Boys and the Middies by Victor Durham
• The Submarine Boys and the Spies by Victor Durham
• The Submarine Boys for the Flag
• The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise
• The Submarine Boys On-Duty
• The Submarine Boys Trial Trip
• Frank Merriwell's Nobility or the Tragedy of the Ocean Tram by Burt Standish, 1899
• Banner Boy Scouts Afloat or the Secret of Cedar Island by George Warren
• Victor Appleton
• Tom Swift and His Motor Boat
• Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat
• Tom Swift and His Undersea Search
• H. Irving Hancock
• Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis, 1911
• Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis, 1911
• Arthur Winfield
• The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes
• The Rover Boys on the Ocean

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History

• Christopher Columbus
• Christopher Columbus by Filson Young
• Christopher Columbus by Mildred Stapley
• The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving, volume 2
• Captain James Cook (1728-1779)
• Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World
• Directions for navigating on Part of the South Coast of Newfoundland,1766
• Narrative of the Voyages Round the World Performed by Captain James Cook by A. Kippis
• The Life of Captain James Cook by Arthur Kitson, 1907
• A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, volume 1,  by Captain James Cook, 1777
• Captain Matthew Flinders (1774-1814)
• The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Ernest Scott
• Voyage to Terra Australis by Matthew Flinders, 1814
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616)
• The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
• Volume 1 -- Northern Europe
• Volume 2-- Northeastern Europe and Adjacent Countries, Part 1 Tartary
• Volume 3 -- Northeastern Europe and Adjacent Countries, Part 2 The Muscovy Company and the North-Eastern Passage, Section 1
• Volume 4 -- Northeastern Europe and Adjacent Countries, Part 2 The Muscovy Company and the North-Eastern Passage, Section 2
• Volume 5 -- Central and Southern Europe
• Volume 6 -- Madeira and the Canaries; Ancient Asia, Africa, Etc.
• Volume 7 -- England's Naval Exploits Against Spain
• Volume 8 -- Asia Part 1
• Volume 9 -- Asia Part 2
• Volume 10 -- Asia Part 3
• Volume 11 -- Africa
• Volume 12 -- American Part 1
• Voyager's Tales
• Voyages in Search of the Northwest Passage
• Robert Kerr (1755-1813)
• A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• volume 5
• volume 6
• volume 7
• volume 8
• volume 9
• volume 10
• volume 11
• volume 12
• volume 13
• volume 14
• volume 15
• volume 16
• volume 17
• volume 18
• Lord Horatio Nelson
• The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, volume 2
• Life of Horatio Lord Nelson by Robert Southey
• The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson by Harrison
• volume 1
• volume 2
• The Life of Nelson, the Embodiment of Sea Power of Great Britain by Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan
• volume 1
• volume 2
• The Mutiny on the Bounty
• The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seize of the HMS Bounty by Sir John Barrow, 1831
• A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty by William Bligh
• A Voyage to the South Sea by William Bligh, 1792
• Voyage of the H.M.S. "Pandora", Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the "Bounty" in the South Seas 1790-1791 by Captain Edward Edwards and George Hamlton
• American Merchant Ships and Sailors by Willis J. Abbot
• Anson's Voyage Round the World by H.W. Household
• At Sulva Bay, being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles Campaign, made by John Hargrave, while serving with the 32nd Field Ambulance, X Division, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, during the Great War
• Captain John Smith by Charles Dudley Warner
• Charles Philip Yorke, Vice-Admiral by Lady Biddulph of Ledbury
• Chronicles of Canada, Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton, Volume 2, the Mariner of St. Malo, a Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier by Stephen Leacock
• The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by George Carleton, 1864
• The Cruise of the "Cachalot" Round the World After Sperm Whales by Frank T. Bullen
• The Cruise of the Kawa -- Wanderings in the South Seas by Walter Traprock
• Dangers of the Ice off the Coast of Labrador by the Religion Tract Society (no. 556)
• Dewey and Other Naval Commanders by Edward S. Ellis
• Diary of a U-Boat Commander
• The Dock and the Scaffold: the Manchester Tragedy and the Cruise of the Jacknell
• Drake's Great Armada by Captain Walter Biggs
• A Dream of the North Sea by James Runciman, 1889
• Early Australian Voyages by John Pinkerton
• Elizabethan Sea-Dogs: a Chronicle of Drake and His Companions by William Wood
• English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century by James Anthony Froude
• The Expedition to Botany Bay by Watkin Tench
• Famous Sea Fights, from Salamis to Tsu-Shima by John Richard Hale
• The Fight for a Free Sea: a Chronicle of the War of 1812 by Ralph D. Paine
• Fighting Instructions 1530-1816 edited by Julian S. Corbett
• The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea by George Collingridge De Tourcey
• First Landing on Wrangel Island by Irving C. Rosse
• Flag and Fleet: How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas by William Wood
• Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe (Foreman of the Humber Dock Gates, Hull) by Henry Woodcock
• Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Thomas Stanley Treanor
• The Home of the Blizzard (about Australian expedition to Antarctica 1911-1914) by Sir Douglas Mawson
• Journal of an African Cruiser by Horatio Bridge (edited by Nathaniel Hawthorne)
• Journal of a Voyage Across the Atlantic by George Moore, 1844
• Journey to the Polar Sea by Sir John Franklin
• The Lieutenant and Commander, being Autbiographical Sketches by Captain Basil Hall
• The Life of John Coleridge Patteson, Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte Yonge
• The Lobster Fishery of Main by John N. Cobb
• The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan
• The Mayflower and Her Log, July 15, 1620 - May 6, 1621, Chiefly from Original Sources, by Azel Ames
• The Monitor and the Merrimac, Both Sides of the story by J.L Worden, Lieutenant Greene, and H. Ashton Ramsay
• Mystic Islands of the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien
• Narrative of the Voyages of HMS Rattlesnake 1846-1850 by John MacGillivray
• volume 1
• volume 2
• The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner by J. Wilkinson [Civil War]
• Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy 1793 to 1849 by William Gilly, 1850
• The Naval History of the United States by Willis Abbot volume 1
• Naval Pioneers of Australia by Louis Beche, 1899
• Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post by Thomas Rainey
• The Old Merchant Marine, a Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors by Ralph D. Paine
• Round the World by Andrew Carnegie
• Round the World in Seven Days by Herbert Strang
• Sailing Alone Around the World by Captain Joshua Slocum (1844-1909)
• Scott's Last Expedition, volume 1
• The Sea-Kings of Crete by James Baikie, 1913
• Sir Francis Drake Revived by Phhilip Nichols
• Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World by Francis Pretty
• Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to newfoundland by Edward Hayes
• Sir Walter Ralegh, a Biography by William Stebbing
• South: the Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
• The South Pole by Roald Amundsen,
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• The Story of Commodore John Barry, Father of the American Navy by martin I.J. Griffin
• The Story of Paul Boyton by Paul Boyton
• A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyaage by Baptista Boazio, 1589
• Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage, volume 1 of 2 by Sir W.E. Parry, 1844
• Thrilling Stories of the Ocean by Marmaduke Park, 1852
• The Travels of Marco Polo (the complete Yule-Cordier Editioni), volume 1 of 2, 1920
• Types of Naval Officers, drawn from the history of the British Navy by Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan
• Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
• The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay by Captain Hunter et al., 1789
• Voyage of the Paper Canoe: a geographical journey of 2500 miles from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico during the years 1874-75 by Nathaniel Bishop
• Voyage of the Liberdade by Captain Joshua Slocum
• Voyage Round the World, volume 1, by James Holman, 1834
• The Voyage of Verazzano by Henry Murphy
• The Voyages of Captain Scott by Charles Turley
• Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines -- H. Wilfrid Walker
• Weird Tales from Northern Seas from the Danish of Jonas Lee by Nisbet Bain
• With the Naval Brigade in Natal 1899-1900 by Lieutenant Burne
• The Women Who Came in the Mayflower by Annie Russell Marble
• The World of Waters or a Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea by Mrs. David Osborne, 1852

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Theory of Naval Warfare

• From Sail to Steam: Recollections of Naval Life by Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan
• A History of Sea Power by William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott
• The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783 by Alfred Thayer Mahan
• The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future by Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan
• The Laws of War Affecting Commerce and Shipping by Byerley Thomson, 1854
• The Manual of Ship Subsidies by Edwin Bacon, 1911
• The Navy as a Fighting Machine by Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, 1916
• Some Principles of Maritime Strategy by Julian Corbett, 1911
• Sea-Power and Other Studies by Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge (1839-1924)

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Sea Creatures

• Within the Deep by R. Cadwallader Smith
• On the Seashore by R. Cadwallader Smith
• Coral Reefs by Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
• Coral and Coral Reefs by Thomas Huxley

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Pirates and Smugglers

• Blackbeard or the Pirate of the Roanake by B. Barker
• Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle
• Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts by Frank R. Stockton
• The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by C.H. Haring
• Captain Scraggs or the Green-Pea Pirates by Peter B. Kyne
• The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seize of the HMS Bounty by Sir John Barrow, 1831
• Elizabethan Sea-Dogs: a Chronicle of Drake and His Companions by William Wood
• The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy by Captain Henry Keppel, 1846
• The Frozen Pirate by w. Clark Russell
• The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson
• Kate Bonnet, the Romance of a Pirate's Daughter by Frank Stockton
• King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 by E. Keble Chatterton
• The Lives and Adventures of Sundry Notorious Pirates by C. Lovat Fraser
• Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Brig Betsey of Wiscassset, Maine, and Murder of Five of Her Crew by Pirates on the Coast of Cuba, Dec. 1824 by Daniel Collins
• On the Spanish Main or Some English Forays on the Isthmus of Darien, With a Description of the Buccaneers and a Short Acocunt of Old-Time Ships and Sailors by John Masefield
• Pirate Gold by F.J. Stimson
• The Pirate Shark by Elliott Whitney
• La Piraterie dans l'Antiquite (in French) by J.M. Sestier
• The Pirates of Malabar and an Englishwoman in India 200 Years Ago by Colonel John Biddulph, 1907
• The Pirates Own Book: Authentic Narraties of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers by Charles Elms, 1837
• The Pirates' Who's Who by Phliip Gosse
• Plotting in Pirate Seas by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
• Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period by John Franklin Jameson
• Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean: the Grand Period of the Moslem Corsairs by Commander E. Hamilton Carey
• The Story of the Barbary Corsairs by Stanley Lane-Poole
• A Voyage to the South Sea by William Bligh, 1792
• Wolves of the Sea: Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manuscript of One Geoffrey Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft Namur, by Randall Parrish (1858-1923), 1918

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Floods

• Genesis, with the story of Noah (from the Bible)
• The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Niveveh by E.A. Wallis Budge
• Atlantis: the Antediluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly (1831-1901)

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Religion, Myth and Legend

• Jonah (from the Bible)
• Argonautica or the Voyage of the Argo by Apollonius of Rhodes, third century BC, translated to English by R.C. Seaton
• Life and Death of Cormac the Skald, anonymous, 13th century, in English
• Njal's Saga, anonymous, 13th century, in English
• Saga of Grettir the Strong, anonymous, 14th century, in English
• Volsunga Saga, with excerpts from the Poetic Edda, anonymous, 13th century, in English
• East O' the Sun and West 'O the Moon by Thorne-Thornsen
• Popular Tales form the Norse by Sir George Webb Dasent
• Fridthjof's Saga translated by Holcomb