Daria’s Favorites Reading List

(see also NE list, Maine list, and children's books, book reviews)

General Reference

• Nathanial Bowditch -The American Practical Navigator (2005) The entire book is available, free, 37.6 MB zipped pdf file
• Chapman’s Piloting Seamanship & Boat Handling  (general information about everything)
• Reed’s Nautical Almanac. Annual editions.  (Tide tables, currents, piloting)
• Annapolis Book of Sailing and Seamanship. (John Rousmaniere)
• Royce’s Sailing Illustrated.
• Heavy Weather Sailing.
• Practical Navigation.
• The Practical Encyclopedia of Sailing: The Complete Guide to Sailing and Racing Dinghies, Catamarans and Cruisers by Jeremy Evans
  

Essential Cruising Adventures

• Tristan Jones
• Joshua Slocum
• Bernard Moitessier
• Sir Francis Chichester
• Sir Robin Knox Johnston

Boating Novels and Stories

• Joseph Conrad. Lord Jim and numerous others by the world’s most noted seafaring author (and my great uncle).
• Patrick O’Brien.  Master and Commander and many others.
• Earnest Hemmingway.  The Old Man and the Sea.
• Julian Stockwin. Quarterdeck - A Kydd Sea Adventure (the fifth in the series) Stockwin's ability to portray life on ship and ashore in in the British naval empire is directly related to his life-long service in the Navy, beginning at the age of 15 and ending with his retirement with the rank of Lieutenant Commander.
• Roger L. Johnson. Dead Man’s Chest - The Sequel to Treasure Island! If you like reading Patrick O’Brian, you’ll love Dead Man’s Chest.
• Beyond the Edge of the Sea : Sailing With Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses, the Vikings, and Other Explorers of the Ancient World by Mauricio Obregon
• Schooner Passage : Sailing Ships and the Lake Michigan Frontier (Great Lakes Books) by Theodore J. Karamanski
• Samoa Under the Sailing Gods by Newton A. Rowe
• Sailing Ships by Colin Mudie
• The Sailing Navy 1775-1854 (U.S. Navy Warship Series) by Paul H. Silverstone

Sailing Anecdotes and Quotes

• A sailor’s guide to life. Randy Deering.
• The quotable sailor. Christopher Caswell.

Cruising Guidebooks

• Charlie’s Charts
• Waterway Guides
• Marina Guides
• Managing the Waterways

Essential Racing Guides

• Team Racing for Sailboats by Steve Tylecote.

Coffee Table Books

• Lines: A Half-Century of Yacht Designs by Sparkman & Stephens 1930-1980 by Olin J., II Stephens.
  A must have for owners of S&S design boats and enthusiasts.
• "J Class" Pricey, but will grace sailing enthusiast's coffee tables and libraries for generations. Go to www.yachting-heritage.com.
• The World’s Best Sailboats. Ference Mate.
• The American Sailboat. Gregory O. Jones
• New England. Carol M. Highsmith and Ted Landphair.
• An America’s Cup Treasury: The lost Levick photographs, 1893-1937. Gary Jobson (editor)
• The America ’s Cup. Olin Stephens.
• Lines. Olin Stephens.
• Enterprise to Endeavor. The J Class Yachts.  Ian Dear.
• The Story of America’s Cup 1851-2000 (Revised edition) Tim Thompson.
• The America’s Cup. Dennis Connor and Michael Levitt.
• Sailing Thoroughbreds by Beken of Cowes, et al.
• Legendary Yachts.  Gilles Martin-Raget.
• Lost Islands.  The story of islands that have vanaished from nautical charts. Henry Strommel.
• The Blue Planet. Andrew Byatt, et al.
• Wild Ocean by Sylvia Earle, marine biologist extraordinaire!
• Yachting’s Golden Age by Ed Holm lovingly captures the first great era of large yachts under sail.
• Sails & Sailing surveys the achievement of America’s first family of yachting photographers - The Rosenfeld Collection
  (Reproductions of images from the Rosenfeld Collection may be ordered from the collection through its website: www.mysticseaport.org/navigate/pop.page.html.)
• The Last of the Wind Ships by Alan Villiers gathers the best work of one of the 20th century’s finest seafaring photographer-writers.

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