Good Reads - List by Author - linked to detailed information
AUTHOR, A
TITLE
Abdy, Richard
Roman Army - pocket dictionary
Acton, Shane
Shrimpy a record around-the-world voyage in an 18 foot yacht
Aczel, Amir D.
Riddle of the Compass - the invention that changed the world
Adkins, Jan
The Craft of Sail
Alder, Ken
The Measure of All Things - the Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that transformed the world
Aldersey-William, Hugh
The Tide. the science and stories behind the greatest force on Earth
Alexander, Caroline
Bounty - The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
Alexander, Caroline
Bounty - The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (on tape)
Alexander, Ted
Ransome in Russia, Arthurs Adventures in Eastern Europe
Allan, Dick
Cry of the Heron
Altounyan, Taqui
Chimes from a Wooden Bell - A hundred years in the life of a Euro-Armenian
Anonymous, B
Beowulf
Antier, Jean-Jacques
Charles de Foucauld - Charles of Jesus
Applebome, Peter
Scouts honor - a fathers unlikely foray into the woods
Babayan, Karen
Swallows and Armenians
Bach, Richard
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Bainton, Roland
Erasmus of Christendom
Baker, Nicholson
Baseless. my search for secrets in the ruins of the Freedom of Information Act (also about chemical biological warfare)
Balchin, Jon
Explorers journeys to the Ends of the Earth
Barnett, Joe Ellen
Times Pendulum - The quest to capture time - from Sundials to Atomic Clocks
Barre, David
Sextant - a young mans daring sea voyage and the men who mapped the worlds oceans
Battles, Matthew
Library - an unquiet history
Battles, Matthew
Palimpsest - a history of the written word
Beebe, William (1877 - 1962)
Adventuring with Beebe
Bell. Gertrude - by- Mason, Fertus
Queen of the Desert - a biography of the emale Lawrence of Arabia. Gertrude Bell
Belloc, Hilaire
Hills and the Sea
Bernard, Shane K.
Teche a history of Louisanas most fameous bayou
Bierce, Ambrose
Ambrose Bierces Civil War
Baden-Powell, Olave St. Clair (Soames)
Window on my Heart - The autobiography of Olave, Lady Baden-Powell, G.B.E. as told to Mary Drewery
Barnett, Joe Ellen
Times Pendulum - The quest to capture time - from Sundials to Atomic Clocks
Blackburn, Elizabeth and Epel, Elissa
The Telomere Effect - a revolutionary approach to living younger, healthier, longer
Blanchard, Kenneth H and Johnson, Spencer
The One Minute Manager
Blanchet, M. Wylie (Muriel Wylie) aka Capi - - 1891-1961
The Curve of Time
Blandford, Pearcy W.
A Life Full of Hobbies
Block, Lawrence
The Burgler in the Library
Blyton, Enid
The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage - (The first adventure of the five finder-outers and Buster their dog)
Boccaccio, Giovanni
The Decameron
Bowden, Keith
The Tecate Journals - seventy days on the Rio Grande
Bowen, Catherine Drinker
Francis Bacon - the temper of a man
Bowker, R.M.(Robert Marshland) and Budd, S.A. (Stanley Arthur)
Make your own Sails
Brady, Catherine
Elizabeth Blackburn and the story of telomeres - deciphering the ends of DNA
Brogan, Hugh
The life of Arthur Ransome
Brower , Kenneth
Song for Satawal
Brower, Kenneth ,
The Starship and the Canoe dual biograpy of Freeman Dyson and George Dyson
Brown Jr., Tom
Case files of the Tracker - true stories from Americas greatest outdoorsman
Brown, Dan
Deception Point
Brown Jr., Tom
Tracker - The
Buck, Rinker
Life on the Mississsippi an epic American Adventure
Buckley, Christopher
Steaming to Bamboola - The World of a Tramp Freighter
Buehler, George
Buehlers Backyard Boatbuilding ,
Burke, James Lee
In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead (a Dave Robicheaux novel)
Burrough, Brian
The Big Rich - The rise and fall of the greatest Texas oil fortunes
Burroughs, John - - Muir, John - - and others
Alaska - The Harriman expedition
Butcher, Tim
Blood River - a journey to Africas broken heart
Caldwell, Taylor
Dear and glorious physician.
Capstone, Peter Hathaway
Death in the Long Grass - a big game hunters adventures in the African Bush
Carlisle, Fred
Journey with Caravel - We ran away to sea.
Carr, Nicholas
The Shallows - What the Inernet is doing to our Brains.
Carrier, Jim
The Ship and the Storm - Hurricane Mitch and the loss of the Fantome
Castaneda, Carlos
The Teachings of Don Juan - a Yaqui Way of Knowledge
Ceram, C.W.
The Secret of the Hittites - the discovery of an ancient empire
Chadwick, David
Crooked cucumber : the life and Zen teaching of Shunryu Suzuki
Chambers, Roland
The Last Englishman - the double life of Arthur Ransome
Charteris, Leslie
The Saint Intervenes
Charteris, Leslie - Short, Christopher (actual author)
The Saint and the Hapsburg Necklace
Charteris, Leslie - Peter Blossom and John Kruse (actual collaborative authors)
Salvage for the Saint
Chase, Owen
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex - A narrative account by Owen Chase, First Mate
Chaucer, Geoffrey
The Canterbury Tales - - rendered into modern English by Nevill Coghill
Chichester, Francis
Gipsy Moth Circles the World
Childers, Erskine
The Riddle of the Sands (a novel set in the North Sea set aboard a yacht)
Chiles, Webb
Chidiock Tichborne II
Chiles, Webb
The Ocean Waits (second -book- in circumnavigation series)
Chiles, Webb
The Open Boat - Across the Pacific (first -book- in circumnavigation series)
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Chiles, Webb
Chidiock Tichborne II (last -book- in circumnavigation series)
Clark, Leonard (Leonard Francis)
Marching Wind ( China )
Clancy, Tom
The Hunt for Red October
Clifford, Brian
The Voyage of the Golden Lotus
Cline, Eric H.- 1960
After 1177 B.C. the Survival of Civilizations
Cline, Eric H.
1177 B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed
Coffey, Maria and Dag Goering
Sailing back in Time A nostalgic voyage on Canadas west coast
Coghill, Nevill (trans)
The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer, Geoffrey
Coghlan, Nicholas
Winter in Fireland - a Patagonian Sailing Adventure
Constantine, Paul
Practical Dinghy Cruiser
Converse, Cathy
Following the Curve of Time - The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet
Costain, Thomas B.
The Silver Chalice: A Story of the Cup of the Last Supper
Constant Waterman (Goldman, Matthew )
, The Journals of the Constant Waterman
Conway, John E.
Catboat Summers
Cotter, Charles H.
A History of the Navigators Sextant
Crabb, Tom
Band Saw projects
Crawford, Stanley
Mayordomo - chronicle of an acequia in northern New Mexico
Crealock, W.I.B. (Bill)
Vagabonding under Sail
Cronkite, Walter
Around America - a tour of our magnificent coastline
Crowley, Tony
The Lo-Tech Navigator
Cussler, Clive with Dirk Cussler
Treasure of Kahn ( audio book on CD)
Dalton, Anthony
Wayward Sailor - in search of the real Tristan Jones
Dashti, Ali
In Search of Omar Khayyam
Davidson, Diane Mott
Tough Cookie
Davis, Jack E.
The Gulf the making of an American Sea
de la Garza, Beatriz
From the Republic of the Rio Grande - a Personal History of the Place and the People.
de Kock, Edwin
Christ and Antichrist in Prophecy and History
De Wohl, Luis
The Last Crusader - a novel about Don Juan of Austria
Delaney, Frank
Simple Courage - A true story of peril on the sea
Demaris, Ovid
Poso del mundo; inside the Mexican-American border, from Tijuana to Matamoros
Dewey, Edward R.
Cycles - the mysterious forces that trigger events
Dias, Antonio
Designer and Client - Eight Boat Design Commissions, from Kayak to Cruiser
Dillard, Annie
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ,
Dixon, June
Uffa Fox a Personal Biography
Doane, Charles J.
The Boy Who Fell to Shore - the Extraordinary Life and Mysterious disappearance of Thomas Thor Tangvald
Dobie, J. Frank
Coronado s children - tales of lost mines and buried treasures of the SW
Dobie, J. Frank
Longhorns
Dobie, J. Frank
Mustangs
Dobie, J. Frank
Rattlesnakes
Dobie, J. Frank
Some Part of Myself (autobiography)
Dobie, J. Frank
Tongues of the Monte
Donovan, Robert J.
PT 109 - John F. Kennedy in World War II
Druett, Joan
Rough Medicine - Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail
Druett, Joan
She Captains - Heroines and hellions of the Sea
Druett, Joan
Tupia
Dumas, Vito
Alone Through the Roaring Forties
Dunn, Ross E.
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta A muslim Traveler of the 14th Century
Dunnett, Dorothy
from the -house of Niccolo - series -
Dunnett, Dorothy
Niccolo Rising (1986)
Dunnett, Dorothy
Spring of the Ram (1987)
Dunnett, Dorothy
Race of Scorpions (1989)
Dunnett, Dorothy
Scales of Gold (1991)
Duxbury, Ken
Lugworm Island Hopping
Duxbury, Ken
Lugworm Homeward Bound - Greece to England in an Open Dingy
Ennos, Roland
The Age of Wood - our most useful material and the construction of civilization
Epel, Elissa and Blackburn, Elizabeth
The Telomere Effect - a revolutionary approach to living younger, healthier, longer
Felt, Hali
Soundings - the story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor (Marie Tharp)
Fox, Uffa
Sailing Boats
Freedman, Russell
Scouting with Baden-Powell
Gardner, John, 1933-1982
Grendel
Garland, Joseph A.
Lone Voyager - the extraordinary adventures of Howard Blackburn, Hero Fisherman of Gloucester
Garza, de la Beatriz
From the Republic of the Rio Grande - a Personal History of the Place and the People.
Garza, Sylvia Sanchez
Cascarones
Genz, Joseph H.
Breaking the Shell - Voyaging from Nuclear Refugees to People of the Sea in the Marshall Islands
Gerbault, Alain - - 1893-1941
The Fight of the Firecrest - the Record of a Lone-Hand Cruise, From East to West, Across the Atlantic
Gerr, Dave
Nature of Boats
Gerr, Dave
Elements of Boat Strength - for Builders. Designers and Owners
Gilpin, Vincent
Good Little Ship - The
Gladwin, Thomas
East is a Big Bird - Navigation and Logic on Puluwat Atoll
Glassner, Jean-Jacques translated by Aainab Bahrani and Marc van De Mieroop
The Invention of Cuneiform - Writing in Sumer
Goldman, Matthew
The Journals of the Constant Waterman
Goldman, Matthew - The Constant Waterman
Moon Wind at Large - Sailing Hither and Yon
Goldstein, Richard
Desperate Hours - The Epic Rescue of the Andrea Doria
Goodlander, Fatty (Gary)
Red Sea Run. two sailors in a sea of trouble
Goodrum, Charles A.
Dewey Decimated
Gooley, Tristan
The Natural Navigator
Grann, David
Lost City of Z - A tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon
Granzotto, Gianni
Christopher Columbus
Gray, William R
Voyages to paradise. exploring in the wake of Captain Cook
Grayson, Stan
A Man for All Oceans - Captain Joshua Slocum and the first solo voygae around the globe - biography
Greenberg, Martin. editor
The Tony Hillerman Companion - a comprehensive guide to his life and work
Greenlaw, Linda
All Fishermen are Liars
Greenlaw, Linda
Bimini Twist - A Jane Bunker Mystery
Greenlaw, Linda
Fishermans Bend - a Jane Bunker mystery
Greenlaw, Linda
The Hungry Ocean - a swordboat captains journey
Greenlaw, Linda
The Lobster Chronicles - life on a very small island
Greenlaw, Linda
Seaworthy - a swordboat captain returns to the sea
Greenlaw, Linda
Slipknot
Griffiths, Maurice
The Magic of the Swatchways
Guadalupi, Gianni and Shugaar, Anthony
Latitude Zero - tales of the Equator
Guareschi, Giovanni
Don Camillo and his flock ,
Guareschi, Giovanni
Comrade Don Camillo
Guareschi, Giovanni
The Family Guareschi - Chronciles of the Past and Present.
Guareschi, Giovanni
Little world of Don Camillo
Guareschi, Giovanni
Don Camillos dilemma ,
Guareschi, Giovanni
Don Camillo Meets the Flower Children (Don Camillo Meets the Hells Angels - UK title)
Guareschi, Giovanni
Don Camillo takes the Devil by the Tail
Guareschi, Giovanni
The House that Nino Built ,
Guareschi, Giovanni
Duncan and Clotilda - an extravaganza with a long digression
Guareschi, Giovanni
My Home Sweet Home - translation of Corrierno delle Famiglie
Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, 1872-1949
Meetings with Remarkable Men
Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, 1872-1949
1949 descripion
Guzzwell, John
Trekka Around the World
Hall, Richard S.
Lighthouses, Lightships, and Beacons of Texas - a comprehensive field guide
Halliburton, Richard
Glorious Adventure
Halliburton, Richard
New Worlds to Conquer (travel in the Americas in 1928)
Hansen, Gunnar
Islands at the Edge of Time - A Journey to Americas Barrier Islands
Harari, Yuval Noah
Sapiens a brief history of humankind
Hardymet, Christina
Captain Flint's Trunk
Harrigan, Stephen
Aransas
Harrison, Jim
Legends of the Fall (also Revenge - also The Man who gave up his name - bound in 1 book)
Harry, David
The Padre Puzzle - a mystery novel ,
Hathcock, Steve
The Old Indio
Haworth-Maden, Clare. editor
Viking Gods
Hayes, David and Daniel
My old man and the sea a father and son sail around Cape Horn
Henry, Alexander - - edited by Armour, David A.
Attack at Michilimackinac 1763
Hepburn, Kathrine
The Making of African Queen
Herge..pen name of..Georges Prosper Remi (b 1907 d 1983) 3 titles bound in one volume
Herge, Georges P. Remi
The Adventures of Tintin - The Black Island
Herge, Georges P. Remi
The Adventures of Tintin - The Blue Lotus
Herge, Georges P. Remi
The Adventures of Tintin - The Broken Ear
Herge, Georges P. Remi
The Adventures of Tintin - Cigars of the Pharaoh
Herge, Georges P. Remi
The Adventures of Tintin - The Crab with the Golden Claws
Herge, Georges P. Remi
The Adventures of Tintin - Destination Moon
Herge, Georges P. Remi
The Adventures of Tintin - Explorers on the Moon (see above)
Herge, Georges P. Remi
The Adventures of Tintin - King Ottokars Sceptre
Herge, Georges P. Remi
The Adventures of Tintin - The Secret of the Unicorn
Herge, Georges P. Remi
The Adventures of Tintin - The Seven Crystal Balls
Herge, Georges P. Remi
The Adventures of Tintin - The Shooting Star
Herge, Georges P. Remi
The Adventures of Tintin - Tintin in America
Herreshoff, L. Francis
Complete Cruiser - the art practice and enjoyment of boating
Heyerdahl, Thor -- 1914-2002
Kon Tiki expedition ,
Heyerdahl, Thor -- 1914-2002
Aku Aku the Secret of Easter Island
Heyerdahl, Thor -- 1914-2002
The Ra expeditions
Heyerdahl, Thor -- 1914-2002
The Tigris expedition ,
Heyerdahl, Thor -- 1914-2002
The Maldive Mystery
Hicks, Robert D.
Voyage to Jamestown Practical Navigation in the Age of Discovery
Hill, Annie
Brazil and Beyond
Hill, Annie
Voyaging on a Small Income
Hillcourt, William - with Olave, Lady Baden-Powell
Baden-Powell - the two lives of a hero
Hillerman, Anne
Cave of Bones - a Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito Novel
Hillerman, Anne
Song of the Lion
Hillerman, Anne
Rock with Wings
Hillerman, Anne
Spider Womans Daughter
Hillerman, Tony 1914-2002
the Navajo Tribal Police stories:
Hillerman, Tony 1914-2002
The Blessing Way (1970) ISBN 0-06-011896-2 , this is the first book of the Joe Leaphorn series
Hillerman, Tony
Dance Hall of the Dead (1973) ISBN 0-06-011898-9
Hillerman, Tony
Listening Woman (1978) ISBN 0-06-011901-2
Hillerman, Tony
People Of Darkness (1980) ISBN 0-06-011907-1
Hillerman, Tony
The Dark Wind (1982) ISBN 0-06-014936-1
Hillerman, Tony 1914-2002
Ghostway (1984) ISBN 0-06-015396-2,
Hillerman, Tony
Skinwalkers (1986) ISBN 0-06-015695-3
Hillerman, Tony
A Thief of Time (1988) ISBN 0-06-015938-3
Hillerman, Tony 1914-2002
Talking God (1989) ISBN 0-06-016118-3
Hillerman, Tony 1914-2002
Coyote Waits (1990) ISBN 0-06-016370-4
Hillerman, Tony
Sacred Clowns (1993) ISBN 0-06-016767-X
Hillerman, Tony
Fallen Man (1996) ISBN 0-06-017773-X,
Hillerman, Tony
First Eagle (1998) ISBN 0-06-017581-8
Hillerman, Tony 1914-2002
Hunting Badger (1999) ISBN 0-06-019289-5
Hillerman, Tony 1914-2002
The Wailing Wind (2002) ISBN 0-06-019444-8
Hillerman, Tony 1914-2002
The Sinister Pig (2003) ISBN 0-06-019443-X
Hillerman, Tony 1914-2002
Skeleton Man (2004) ISBN 0-06-056344-3
Hillerman, Tony 1914-2002
The Shape Shifter (2006) ISBN 978-0-06-056345-5
Hillerman, Tony 1914-2002
Fly on the Wall (1971) ISBN 0-06-011897-0
Hillerman, Tony 1914-2002
Finding Moon (1995) ISBN 0-06-017772-1
Hillerman, Tony 1914-2002
Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir by Tony Hillerman (2001) (autobiography) ISBN 0-06-019445-6
Hillerman, Tony 1914-2002
The Great Taos Bank Robbery and other tales ... (1973) ISBN 0-8263-0306-4
Hofland, Barbara - 1770-1844
Young Crusoe - The adventures of a shipwrecked boy on the island of St. Paul., in the Indian Ocean in the year 1826
Holley, Linda A.
, Tipis Tepees Teepees - history and design of the cloth tipi
Horie, Kenichi
Kodoku - Sailing Alone Across the Pacific
Horwitz, Tony
Blue Latitudes - Boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before
Horwitz, Tony
A Voyage Long and Strange - on the trail of the Vikings. Conquistadors. Lost Colonists. and Other Adventurers in Early America
Hotchner, A.E.
Papa Hemingway - a personal memoir
Hough, Richard
The Blind Horns Hate
Household, Geoffrey
Prisoner of the Indies - the adventures of Miles Philips as told by Geoffrey Household
Hughes, Lee
Biggest Boat I could Afford - sailing up the U.S. Coast in a dingy
Hulsman, John C.
To Begin the World Over Again. Lawrence of Arabia from Damascus to Baghdad
Hunter, Douglas
Half Moon . Henry Hudson and the voyage that redrew the map of the New World
Hunter, Douglas
The Race to the New World - Christopher Columbus, John Cabot and a Lost History of Discovery
Hunter, John A.
Hunter
Iacocca, Lee
Iacocca an autobiography
Iacocca, Lee
Where have all the leaders gone
Jarvis, D.C., MD
Folk Medicine
Jeal, Tim
Baden-Powell - Founder of the Boy Scouts ,
Jenkins, Philip - - ( John P. Jenkins )
The Lost History of Christianity - The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia - and how it died
Jenkins, Peter
Along the Edge of America
Jones, Dilwyn
Boats - Egyptian Bookshelf (series) ,
Jones, Julia
The Salt Stained Book (Strong Winds series no.1)
Jones, Tristan
, To venture further
Jones, Tristan
, Seagulls in my soup
Jones, Tristan
, Encounters of a Wayward Sailor
Jones, Tristan
, Star to Steer Her by (same as Outward Leg)
Jones, Tristan
, Outward Leg (sailing a trimaran from San Diego USA to London UK
Jones, Tristan
, Heart of Oak (certainly fiction as far as Jones participation)
Jones, Tristan
, Steady Trade (considered as fiction)
Jones, Tristan
, Aka (written as fiction)
Jones, Tristan
, Somewheres East of Suez
Jones, Tristan
, Improbable voyage
Jones, Tristan
, Adrift
Jones, Tristan
Incredible Voyage
Jones, Tristan
, Saga of a Wayward Sailor
Jones, Tristan
, Ice (considered totally fiction)
Jones, Tristan
, Dutch Treat (considered fiction)
Jones, Tristan
, One hand for yourself - One for the Ship - The essential Tristan Jones
Josephy, Alvin M. Jr. Lewis and Clark through Indian Eyes
Junger, Sebastian
The Perfect Storm
Kaplan, Robert D.
The Revenge of Geography - what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate
Kendall-Price, Claire
In the footsteps of the Swallows and Amazons - 19 illustrated walks
Kent, George O.
Bismark and his times
Kent, Rockwell
Voyaging - Southward from the Strait of Magellan
Kent, Rockwell
Its Me O Lord - the autobiography of Rockwell Kent
King, Dean
Skeletons on the Zahara - A True Story of Survival
King, Paul
The Complete Yurt Handbook
Knightly, Philip and Simpson, Colin
The Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia
Konigsburg, E.L.
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Kurlansky, Mark
Paper - paging through history
Ladd, Stephen
Five-year Voyage exploring Latin American Coasts and Rivers
Ladd, Stephen
Three Years in a Twelve-Foot Boat
Lagan, Jack
Barefoot Navigator - Wayfinding with the Skills of the Ancients
Landau, Brent (translator)
Revelation of the Magi - the lost tale of the Wise Mens Journey to Bethlehem
Lang, Gregory E.
Why a Son needs a Dad
Langewiesche, William
Sahara Unveiled - A journey across the desert
Langford, Richard E.
White Squall - the Last Voyage of Albatross
Lansing, Alfred
Endurance - Shackletons Incredible Voyage
Lasky, Katnryn
The Librarian who Measured the Earth (a short biography of Eratosthenes)
Latham, Jean Lee
Carry on Mr. Bowditch
Laubin, Reginald and Gladys
Indian Tipi - its history, construction and use
Lawrence, R.D.
Voyage of the Stella
Lawrence, T. E. (1888 - 1935)
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Le Tourmelin, Jacques-Yves
Kurun around the world
Le Tourmelin, Jacques-Yves
Kurun in the Caribbean
Lea, Tom
The Hands of Cantu
Leon, Donna
Blood from a Stone one of the commisario Guido Brunetti mystery series
Leon, Donna
Death at La Fenice the first of the commisario Guido Brunetti mystery series
Leon, Donna
Gondola the Venetian boat
Leon, Donna
A Sea of Troubles A commisario Guido Brunetti mystery
Leon, Donna
Uniform Justice A commisario Guido Brunetti mystery
Leopold, Aldo
A Sand County Almanac
Leighton, Kenneth M.
Oar and Sail - an odyssey of the west coast
Leslie, Robert C.
A Waterbiography (orig. pub in 1894)
Levitt, Steven D. and Dubner, Steven J.
Freakonomics - a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Lewis, David H.
Icebird
Lewis, David H.
We the Navigators
Longyard, William
A Speck on the Sea - epic voyages in the most improbable vessels
Lowenstein, Hubertus
A Basic History of Germany
Mace, Elisabeth
Ransome Revisited
Mackinnon, A. J.
The Well at the Worlds End
Mackinnon, A. J.
Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow - a Mirror odyssey from N. Wales to Black Sea
Mahoney, Rosemary
Down the Nile - alone in a fishermans skiff
Maitland, Derek
Setting Sails - a tribute to the Chinese Junk
Malone, Michael S
Running Toward Danger - Real Life Scouting Action Stories of Heroism, Valor and Guts
Manchester, William
The Arms of Krupp 1587-1968
Manchester, William
World lit only by fire - The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of
Mann, Zane B.
Fair Winds and Far Places
Manry, Robert
Tinkerbelle - the Story of the Smallest Boat to Cross the Atlantic
Martin, Malachi
The Vatican
Mason, Fertus
Queen of the Desert - a biography of the emale Lawrence of Arabia. Gertrude Bell
Matthiessen, Peter
The Snow Leopard
Mattingly, Garrett
The Armada (Spanish of 1588)
Marozzi, Justin
The Way of Herodotus travels with the man who invented history
McAlister, Wayne H.
Life on Matagorda Island
McCall, Fiona and Howard, Paul
All in the Same Boat
McKinney, Sam
Sailing Uphill, An Unconventional Life on the Water
McKinney, Sam
Sailing with Vancouver. A modern sea dog, antique charts and a voyage through time
McPhee, John A.
The Control of Nature
McPhee, John A.
Looking for a Ship
McPhee, John A.
Rising from the Plains
Meier, John P.
A Marginal Jew - rethinking the historical Jesus
Merton, Thomas
The Seven story Mountain
Merton, Thomas
The Wisdom of the Desert - Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century
Michener, James A 1907-1997.
Chesapeake
Michener, James A. - 1907-1997
Chesapeake
Michener, James A. - 1907-1997
The Novel
Michener, James A. - 1907-1997
The Source
Millard, Candice
River of Doubt (Theodore Roosevelt)
Miller, John J. and Molesky, Mark
Our Oldest Enemy - a history of Americas disasterous relationship with France
Mirsky, Jeannette, editor
The Great Chinese Travelers - an anthology
Moore, Jim - 1936
By Way of the Wind
Moore, Jim - 1936
Swan - the second voyage
Mohlke, Matthew
Floating Down the Country - a 79 day adventure down the Mississippi ..to New Orleans
Moitessier, Bernard
Tamata and the alliance ,
Moitessier, Bernard
First voyage of the Joshua
Moitessier, Bernard
Sea Vagabonds world - boats and sails distant shores islands and lagoons
Moorhouse, Geoffrey
Fearful Void (Sahara)
Morrison, Samuel Eliot
John Paul Jones - a sailors biography
Morrison, Samuel Eliot
Admiral of the ocean sea - a life of Christopher Columbus
Morison, Samuel Eliot 1887-1976
The Ropemakers of Plymouth - a history of the Plymouth Cordage Company 1824-1949
Moscow, Alvin
Collision Course Andrea Doria and Stockholm
Moussaieff Masson, Jeffrey
Slipping into Paradise - why I live in New Zealand
Mowat, Farley
Black Joke, the
Mowat, Farley
Grey Seas Under
Mowat, Farley
Serpants Coil - A stunning true epic of storm and salvage in Mid Atlantic
Mowat, Farley
Boat who wouldnt float
Mowat, Farley
Westviking - the Ancient Norse in Greenland and North America
Munro, Alice
Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage, stories
Nichols, John T.
Milagro Beanfield War (1974) ,
Nichols, John T.
Magic Journey (1978)
Nichols, John T.
Nirvana Blues (1981)
Nakashima Brock. Rita and , Parker. Rebecca Ann
Saving Paradise - How Christianity traded love of this world for crucifixion and empire
Nelson, Willie
The Facts of Life and other dirty jokes
Niven, David
Bring on the Empty Horses
Obregon, Mauricio
Beyond the Edge of the Sea - Sailing with Janson and the Argonauts.Ulysses.the Vikings.and Other Explorers of the Ancient World
O Brian, Connor
Sea-Boats, Oars and Sails
O Connor, M.R.
Wayfinding - the science and mystery of how humans navigate the world
OHanlon, Redmond
In Trouble Again - A journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon
OHanlon, Redmond
No Mercy. A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo
OHanlon, Redmond
Into the Heart of Borneo
OHanlon, Redmond
Trawler
Parry, Richard
Trial by Ice - the true story of Murder and survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition
Pearson, T.R.
Seaworthy - Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting
Oliva, Juan (attributed) pub. by Library of Congress
Portolan Atlas of the Mediterranean Sea and Western European Waters (with a World Map)
Pamperin, Tom
Jagular goes everywhere - mis adventures in a 300 dollar sailboat
Parker, Reuel B.
The Sharpie Book
Parr, Charles McKew
So Noble a Captain - the Life and Times of Ferdinand Magellan
Pasternak, Boris L.
Dr. Zhivago
Pearson, T. R.
Seaworthy - Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting
Peddiwell, J. Abner
The Saber-Tooth Curriculum
Penn, Robert
The Man Who Made Things out of Trees
Perez-Mallaina, Pablo E. - - - translated by Carla Rahn Phillips
Spains Men of the Sea - Daily Life on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth Century
Perry, Rick (Governor of Texas)
On My Honor - Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts are worth fighting for
Peters, Ellis (pseud. for Edith Pargeter)
A Morbid Taste for Bones (written in 1977, set in 1137) ,
Peters, Ellis ,
,One Corpse Too Many 1979, set in August 1138)
Peters, Ellis ,
Monks Hood 1980, set in December 1138)
Peters, Ellis ,
Saint Peter's Fair (1981, set in July 1139)
Peters, Ellis ,
The Leper of Saint Giles (1981, set in October 1139),
Peters, Ellis ,
The Virgin in the Ice (1982, set in November 1139),
Peters, Ellis ,
,The Sanctuary Sparrow (1983, set in the Spring of 1140)
Peters, Ellis ,
The Devils Novice (1983, set in September 1140)
Peters, Ellis ,
Dead Man's Ransom (1984, set in February 1141)
Peters, Ellis ,
,The Pilgrim of Hate (1984, set in May 1141)
Peters, Ellis ,
,An Excellent Mystery (1985, set in August 1141)
Peters, Ellis ,
The Raven in the Foregate (1986, set in December 1141),
Peters, Ellis ,
The Rose Rent (1986, set in June 1142)
Peters, Ellis ,
The Hermit of Eyton Forest (1988, set in October 1142),
Peters, Ellis ,
, The Confession of Brother Haluin (1988, set in December 1142)
Peters, Ellis ,
The Heretics Apprentice (1990, set in June 1143)
Peters, Ellis ,
The Potters Field (1990, set in August 1143)
Peters, Ellis ,
The Summer of the Danes (1991, set in April 1144)
Peters, Ellis ,
The Holy Thief (1992, set in August 1144)
Peters, Ellis ,
Brother Cadfael's Penance (1994, set in November 1145),
Philbrick, Nathaniel
In the Heart of the Sea - the tragedy of the whaleship Essex
Phillips.Carla Rahn (translator), Perez-Mallaina.Pablo E.
, Spains Men of the Sea - Daily Life on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth Century
Plummer, Henry M.
Boy Me and the Cat - Cruise of the Mascot 1912-1913
Plutarch
Lives
Polo, Marco
The Travels ( Description of the World )
Poolman, Kenneth
Speedwell Voyage - A tale of piracy and mutiny in the eighteenth century
Powell, Robert
History of the Zodiac
Powers, Ron
A Life of Mark Twain
Putegnat, Michael
Laguna (south Texas)
Pye, Peterl
The Sea is for Sailing
Raban, Jonathan
Arabia through the looking glass (1979)
Raban, Jonathan
Coasting - A Private Voyage (around Great Britain)
Raban, Jonathan
Old Glory - A Voyage Down the Mississippi
Raban, Jonathan
Bad Land - an American Romance
Raban, Jonathan
Passage to Juneau - a sea and its meanings
Rahn Phillips, Carla (translator) - author = Perez-Mallaina, Pablo E.
, Spains Men of the Sea - Daily Life on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth Century
Rahn, Peter and Carla
World of Christopher Columbus
Rahn, Carla Philips
Six Galleons for the King of Spain
Rajaniemi, Brunhild
Two Escaping the Last Battle (WWII last part - girls escaping Berlin)
Ransome, Arthur
Old Peters Russian Tales
Ransome, Arthur
Winter Holiday
Ransome, Arthur
Coot Club
Ransome, Arthur
Coots in the North and other stories introduced by Hugh Brogan
Ransome, Arthur
Autobiography of Arthur Ransome ,
Ransome, Arthur
Great Northern
Ransome, Arthur
Swallowdale
Ransome, Arthur
Big Six
Ransome, Arthur
Secret Water
Ransome, Arthur
Peter Duck
Ransome, Arthur
Picts and the Martyrs
Ransome, Arthur
Picts and Martyrs or not welcome at all second reading
Ransome, Arthur
Rod and Line
Ransome, Arthur
Swallows and Amazons
Ransome, Arthur
Pigeon Post
Ransome, Arthur
Pigeon Post second reading February 2021
Ransome, Arthur
We didn t mean to go to sea ,
Ransome, Arthur
Winter Holiday
Ransome, Arthur
Missee Lee
Resendez, Andres
Conquering the Pacific - an unknown mariner and the final great voyage of the age of discovery
Reynolds, Nicholas
Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy - Ernest Hemingways Secret Adventures 1935-1961
Rice, Edward
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton - the secret agent who made a pilgrimage ... Mecca
Rimington, Critchell, editor
The Sea Chest - a yachtsmans reader
Rodgers.Slats. and, Stilwell.Hart
Old Soggy no. 1 the uninhibited story of Slats Rogers (airplanes in S. Texas)
Rosten, Leo
Joys of Yiddish
Ruby, Robert
Unknown Shore - the Lost History of Englands Arctic Colony
Rupke, Nicolas A.
Alexander von Humboldt - a Metabiography
Saunders, Mike
The Walkabouts - a family at sea
Rowlands, John J.
Cache Lake Country - ife in the north woods.
Schlosser, S.E.
Spooky Wisconsin - Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and other Local Lore
Seale, Avrel
The Hull the Sail and the Rudder - my search for the boundries of the body mind and soul
Scott, Michael
Alchemyst - the secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel ( number 1 in the series _
Scott, Michael
Magician - the secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel ( Number 2 in the series _
Seale, Jan Epton
Airlift - Short Stories
Sedgwick, Marcus
Blood Red Snow White
Sevareid, Eric
Canoeing with the Cree - a 2,250 mile voyage from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay
Severin, Tim
The Brendan Voyage
Severin, Tim
In Search of Robinson Crusoe
Severin, Tim
The Sinbad Voyage
Shepard, Birse
Lore of the Wreckers
Short, Christopher (actual author) marketed under author Charteris, Leslie
The Saint and the Hapsburg Necklace
Sica, Mario
Where it all began Brownsea August 1907 - The First Experimental Scout Camp (Lord Baden-Powell and Boy Scouting)
Shackleton, Sir Ernest
South - the story of Shackletons last expedition 1914-1917
Simard, Suzanne
Finding the Mother Tree - discovering the wisdom of the forest
Shute, Nevil (Norway) - 1889-1960
Trustee in the Toolroom
Sinnett-Jones, David
Not All Plain Sailing
Sinnett-Jones, David
Passion for Life - Adventure against the odds
Slocum, Joshua
Voyage of the Liberdade
Slocum, Joshua
Sailing Alone Around the World ,
Slocum, Joshua
Sailing Alone Around the World ,
Slocum, Joshua
Voyage of the Destroyer from New York to Brazil
Slocum, Victor
Capt. Joshua Slocum - the adventures of Americas best known sailor
Smith, Martin Cruz
Gorky Park
Smith, Martin Cruz
Havanna Bay
Smith, Martin Cruz
Polar Star
Smith, Martin Cruz
Red Square
Smith, Martin Cruz
Stalin's Ghost - an Arkady Renko novel
Snyder, Gerald S.
In the Footsetps of Lewis and Clark
Soskice, Janet Martin
The Sisters of Sinai - How two lady adventurers discovered the hidden gospels
Souhami, Diana
Selkirks Island
Spalding, Simon
Food at Sea - shipboard cuisine from ancient to Modern Times
Speer, Albert
Inside the Third Reich - memoir
Steffy, Loren C.
The Man Who Thought Like a Ship ,
Steinbeck, John 1902-1968
Cannery Row
Steinbeck, John 1902-1968
, The Long Valley (short stories)
Steinbeck, John 1902-1968
Tortilla Flat
Stewart, Mary
The Crystal Cave
Stewart, Mary
The Hollow Hills
Stewart, Rory
The Prince of the Marshes and other occupational hazards of a year in Iraq
Stilwell.Hart and , Rodgers.Slats.
, Old Soggy no. 1 - the uninhibited story of Slats Rogers (aircraft in south Texas)
Stock, A.C. - (aka Charles Stock) (died 2015)
Sailing Just for Fun - High Adventure on a Small Budget
Stone, Nathaniel
On the Water - Discovering America in a Rowboat 2003
Stone, Nathaniel
On the Water - Discovering America in a Rowboat
Tangvald, Peter
At any Cost - Love - Life and Death at Sea
Tangvald, Peter
Sea Gypsy
Taylor, Andrew
The World of Gerard Mercator - the mapmaker who revolutionized geography
Taylor, Jeffrey
Facing the Congo - a modern-day journey into the heart of darkness
Teller, Walter Magnes
The Voyages of Joshua Slocum (Voyage of the Liberdade ~ Voyage of the Destroyer from New York to Brazil ~ Sailing Alone Around the World ~ Rescue of Some Gilbert Islanders)
Temple, Robert K.G.
The Genius of China - 3,000 years of science discovery and invention
Testa, Serge
500 Days (sailing around the world in a very small boat)
Thomas, Stephen D.
Last Navigator (Polynesian navigation)
Theroux, Paul
Kingdom by the sea - A Journey around the Coast of Great Britain
Theroux, Paul
Sailing through China
Theroux, Paul
To the Ends of the Earth - the selected travels of Paul Theroux
Theroux, Paul
The Happy Isles of Oceania
Thomas, Lowell
Count Lukner - the Sea Devil , (WWI sailing raider)
Thomas, Lowell
With Lawrence in Arabia New enlarged edition
Thompson, Harry
This Thing of Darkness (about Fitzroy, Darwin and the Beagle
Thompson, Keith S.
HMS Beagle - the story of Darwins ship
Thoreau, Henry David -- 1817-1862
Walden - and - A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers - and - Civil Disobedience - and - Life without Principle - and - Cape Cod - and - fragments from his Journals
Purves, Libby (editor) - H.W. Tilman
Adventures under sail - selected writings of H.W. Tilman
Theiss, Lewis E. 1878-
On Board a U.S. Submarine
Tinkle, Lon
An American Original: The Life of J. Frank Dobie
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien selected and editued by Humprey Carpenter with the assistance of Christopher Tolkien.
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Hobbit
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Fellowship of the Ring (book 1)
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Two Towers (book 2)
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Return of the King (book 3)
Tomalin, Nicholas and Hall, Ron
The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
Trimmer, John W.
How to Avoid Huge Ships or I never met a ship I liked
Tuchman, Barbara W.
A Distant Mirror - the calamitous fourteenth century
Tuchman, Barbara W.
The Guns of August (the first 100 days of World War 1)
Tuchman, Barbara W.
The Zimmermann Telegram - The astounding historic espionage operation that propelled America into World War 1
Tuchman, Barbara W.
Distant Mirror - the calamitous 14th Century
Twain, Mark (Clemens, Samuel L.) - 1835-1910
Following the Equator - a journey around the world - Volume 1
Twain, Mark (Clemens, Samuel L.) - 1835-1910
Following the Equator - a journey around the world - Volume 2
Twain, Mark (Clemens, Samuel L.) - 1835-1910
Life on the Mississippi
Twain, Mark - 1835-1910
On the Decay of the Art of Lying ,
Twain, Mark - 1835-1910
A Dogs Tale
Mark Twain - Samuel Clemens - 1835-1910
A Pen Warmed-up in Hell
Twain, Mark - 1835-1910
Roughing It
Upfield, Arthur W.
An Author Bites the Dust
Upfield, Arthur W.
The Bachelors of Broken Hill ,
Upfield, Arthur W.
The Bone is pointed
Upfield, Arthur W.
The Bushman Who Came Back ,
Upfield, Arthur W.
The Lure of the Bush
Upfield, Arthur W.
Man of Two Tribes
Upfield, Arthur W.
Murder Must Wait
Upfield, Arthur W.
No Footprints in the Bush (also published as Bushranger of the Skies)
Upfield, Arthur W.
The Torn Branch
Upfield, Arthur W.
Valley of Smugglers
Upfield, Arthur W.
The White Savage
Upfield, Arthur W.
The New Shoe
Urrea, Luis Alberto
Devils Highway - a true story (across the desert illegal entry into USA - a disaster)
Villiers, Alan J. 1903-1982
Indian Ocean
Villiers, Alan J. 1903-1982
Wild Ocean - the Story of the North Atlantic and the Men Who Sailed It
Villiers, Alan J 1903-1982
The Indian Ocean copy
Wade, Eileen K.
The Chief - The Life Story of Robert Baden-Powell (Boy Scouts)
Wallach, Jan
Desert Queen -The extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell - Adventurer Advisor (part of this WWI in Arabia etc)
Wardlae, Roger
Arthur Ransome Storyteller
Wardale, Roger
Arthur Ransome under sail - Racundra - Nancy Blackett - Lottie Blossom - Peter Duck - Selina King - Swallow
Wardale, Roger
Nancy Blackett - under sail with Arthur Ransome
Warner, William E.
Beautiful Swimmers - Watermen. Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
Watson, Don B.
21500 miles alone in a canoe (American river travel)
Weddle, Robert S.
Spanish Sea - The Gulf of Mexico in North American Discovery 1500 - 1685
White, Michael
Isaac Newton the Last Socerer
White, Robb
How to build a tin canoe - Confessions of an Old Salt
White, William Lindsay, 1900-1973
They Were Expendable (WWII Patrol Torpedo boats in the Pacific early in the war)
Wiele, Annie van de
The West in my eyes; a domestic circumnavigation.
Williams, Wendy
Kraken - the curious, exciting, and slightly disturbing science of squid.
Willis, William - 1893- 1968
Whom the Sea Has Taken - 204 Days Alone on a Raft from Peru to Australia
Wills, Gary
St. Augustine (the person)
Winchester, Simon
The Man Who Loved China ( biography of Joseph Needham )
Winchester, Simon
Professor and the madman - A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Wohlleben, Peter
The Hidden Life of Trees. what they feel. How they communicate. Discoveries from a secret world.
Woolley, Benjamin
The Queens Conjurer - the science and magic of Dr. John Dee, adviser to Queen Elizabeth I
Worsley, Frank Arthur
Shackletons Boat Journey
Young, William Paul
The Shack - a novel
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