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[Arranged by category from most recently published to earliest published]

 

 


Ships & Boats:

 

Seamanship:  a Voyage Along the Wild Coasts of the British Isles.  Adam Nicolson, 2005.

          910.9163 NICOLSON

 

Chris-Craft of the 1950’s.  Jack Savage, 2002.     623.8 SAVAGE

 

Far Appalachia:  Following the New River North.  Noah Adams, 2001.     975.4 ADAMS

 

Women Sailors and Sailor’s Women:  an Untold Maritime History.  David Cordingly, 2001. 

          910.1 CORDINGLY

 

Through Europe at Four Knots:  a Tale of Boating Mayhem and Family Adventure.

           Les Horn, 2000.     797.124 HORN

 

American Sea Writing:  a Literary Anthology.  Peter Neill, 2000.  810.8 AMERICAN

 

Blessing the Boats:  New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000.  Lucille Clifton, 2000.  811.54 CLIFTON

 

River  Horse:  the Logbook of a Boat Across America.  William Least Heat-Moon,1999.   

          917.304 HEAT-MOON

 

Ultimate Sailing.  Sharon Green, 1998.     Q 797.124 GREEN

 

Along the Edge of America.  Peter Jenkins, 1995.     917.6 JENKINS

 

The Secret Life of the Seine.  Mort Rosenblum, 1994.     914.4 ROSENBLUM

 

The Nature of Boats:  Insights and Esoterica for the Nautically Obsessed.  Dave Gerr, 1992.    

          797.1 GERR

 

Arctic Passages:  a Unique Small-boat Journey through the Great Northern Waterway.  John R.

          Bockstoce, 1991.     917.98 BOCKSTOCE

 

The Dinghy Book.  Stan Grayson, 1989.     623.8 GRAYSON

 

An Introduction to Powerboat Cruising.  Dag Pike, 1989.     797 PIKE

 

Paddle to the Amazon.  Don Starkell, 1989.     797.1 STARKELL

 

Speedboat.  D.W. Fostle, 1988.     797.1 FOSTLE OV

 

Looking at Sails.  Dick Kenny, 1988.     797 KENNY

 

The Cruising Guide to Maine. 2 vol.   Don Johnson, 1987.   917.41 JOHNSON OV

 

Dictionary of Ship Types:  Ships, Boats, and Rafts Under Oar and Sail. [Grosse buch der Schiffstypen.]  Alfred Dudszus & Ernest Henriot; Keith Thomas, trans.,1986.     Q 623.82 DUDSZUS

 

The Fourth Book of Good Boats.  Roger C. Taylor, 1984.     Q 623.8 TAYLOR

 

Down to the Sea:  the Fishing Schooners of Gloucester.  Joseph E. Garland, 1983.     387 GARLAND

 

Canoeing Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.  Ken Weber, 1980.     797.122 WEBER

 

Still Waters, White Waters:  Exploring America’s Rivers and Lakes.  Ron Fisher, 1977. 

          917.3 FISHER

 

Songs of the Sea:  the Tales and Tunes of Sailors and Sailing Ships. Stan Hugill, 1977.    

          784.6 HUGILL OV

 

The Rivermen.  Time-Life Books, 1977.     Q 978 O’NEIL

 

The Medley of Mast and Sail:  a Camera Record…  Frank G. Carr, 1976.     387.2 CARR

 

Great Voyages in Small Boats:  Solo Circumnavigations.  1976. 910.4 GUZZWELL

 

Victorian and Edwardian Sailing Ships from Old Photographs. Basil Greenhill,1976.

          387 GREENHILL

 

Sailing Ships.  Patrick Brophy, 1974.     Q 797 BR

 

Sailing Boats of the World:  a Guide to Classes.  Rhonda Budd, ed., 1974.    797 BUDD

 

Steamers, Schooners, Cutters, and Sloops;  the Marine Photographs of N. L. Stebbins Taken from 1884 to 1907.  William H. Bunting, 1974.  Q 779.37 BUNTING

 

Wild Rivers of North America.  Michael Jenkinson, 1973.     917 JENKINSON

 

The Marine Photography of Peter Barlow.  Peter Barlow, 1973.     779.37 WHITING OV

 

The Search for Speed Under Sail, 1700-1855.  Howard I. Chapelle, 1967.    387 CHAPELLE

 

The Great Age of Sail.  B. W. Bathe, 1967.     Q 387 JOBE

 

The Inland Sea.  Morton M. Hunt, 1965.     917.46 HUNT

 

Sailing Craft:  Mostly Descriptive of Smaller Pleasure Sail Boats of the Day.   Edwin J. Schoettle,

          ed.,1928.     797 SCHOETTLE

 

The Sailing Ships of New England.  Series Two.  John Robinson, 1924.     R 387 DOW SERIES 2

 

Sailing Ships:  the Story of Their Development from the Earliest Times to the Present Day.

           E. Keble Chatterton, 1909.     797.1 CHATTERTON

 

History of ships & Sailing:

 

Leviathan:  the History of Whaling in America.  Eric Jay Dolin, 2007.      639.2 DOLIN

 

Chesapeake:  Exploring the Water Trail of Captain John Smith.  John Page Williams, 2006.    

          Q 551.46 WILLIAMS

 

Ship Ablaze:  the Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum.  Edward T. O’Donnell, 2003.

          910.9163 O’DONNELL

 

Tall Ships Down:  the Last Voyages of the Pamir, Albatross, Marques, Pride of Baltimore, and Maria Asumpta.  Daniel S. Parrott, 2003.     910.4 PARROTT

 

Raising the Hunley:  the Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine.

          Brian Ricks and Schuyler Kropf, 2002.     973.7 HICKS

 

On the Water:  Discovering America in a Rowboat.  Nathaniel Stone, 2002.     917.304 STONE

 

Women Sailors and Sailor’s Women:  an Untold Maritime History.  David Cordingly, 2001. 

          910.1 CORDINGLY

 

A Viking Voyage: In Which an Unlikely Crew Attempts an Epic Journey to the New World. 

          W. Hodding Carter, 2000.     910.45 CARTER

 

Historic Sail:  the Glory of the Sailing Ship from the 13th to the 19th Century.  Stephen Howarth &

          Joseph Wheatley, 2000.     Q 623.8 HOWARTH

 

War at Sea in the Age of the Sail 1650-1850.  Andrew D. Lambert, 2000.     359.322 LAMBERT

 

Lost Ships:  the Discovery and Exploration of the Ocean’s Sunken Treasures.  Mensun Bound,

          1998.     910.4 BOUND

 

Ships of the World:  an Historical Encyclopedia. Lincoln P. Paine, 1997.   623.82 PAINE

 

Phantom Islands of the Atlantic:  the Legends of Seven Lands That Never Were.  Donald S.

         Johnson, 1996.     911.63 JOHNSON

 

The Encyclopedia of Ships:  the History and Specifications of Over 1200 Ships. Chris Marshall, ed.,

          1995.     Q 623.82 ENCYCLOPEDIA

 

Men-of-War.  Patrick O’Brien, 1995.     359.322 O’BRIEN

 

Yachts in a Hurry:  an Illustrated History of the Great Commuter Yachts.  C. Philip Moore, 1994.

          797.14 MOORE

 

The Atlas of Shipwrecks & Treasure:  the History, Location, and Treasures of Ships Lost at Sea.

          Nigel Pickford, 1994.     Q 910.453 PICKFORD

 

Atlantic Seafaring:  Ten Centuries of Exploration and Trade in the North Atlantic.  Roger Morris.

          1992.     623.89 MORRIS

 

Wooden Ship:  the Art, History, and Revival of Wooden Boatbuilding. 

         Peter H. Spectre and David Larkin, 1991.   Q 623.8 SPECTRE

 

Ships and Shipwrecks of the Americas:  a History Based on Underwater Archaeology.  George F.

        Bass, 1988.     910.453 SHIPS

 

The Evolution of the Wooden Ship.  Basil Greenhill, 1988.     Q 623.8 GREENHILL

 

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea:  Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750.  Marcus Rediker, 1987.   910.4 REDIKER

 

The Wood & Canvas Canoe:  a Complete Guide to Its History, Construction, Restoration, and Maintenance.  Jerry Stelmok and Rollin Thurlow, 1987.     Q 623.82 STELMOK

 

The Challenge.  A. B. C Whipple, 1987.     910.4 WHIPPLE

 

Early American Ships.  John Fitzhugh Millar, 1986.     Q 387 MILLAR

 

“A Careless Word – a Needless Sinking”:  a History of the Staggering Losses Suffered by the U.S. Merchant Marine, Both in Ships and Personnel During World War II.  Arthur R. Moore, 1985.

          Q 940.945 MOORE

 

A Life in Boats:  the Years Before the War.  Waldo Howland, 1984.  797 HOWLAND

 

Knights of the Sea.  1982.     Q 359.3 KNIGHTS

 

Tiller and Whipstaff:  the Development of the Sailing Ship, 1400-1700.   A. P. McGowen, 1981.

          387.2 NATIONAL

 

Romance of the Sea.  J.H. Parry, 1981.     Q 387.5 PARRY

 

Early American Ships.  John Fitzhugh Millar, 1986.     Q 387 MILLAR

 

The Low Black Schooner:  Yacht America, 1851-1945.  John Rousmaniere, 1986.

          797.14 ROUSMA OV

 

The Life and Death of the Merchant Sailing Ship 1815-1965.  Basil Greenhill,1980.

          387.2 GREENHILL

 

The Century Before Steam:  the Development of the Sailing Ship 1700-1820.  A. P. McGowan,

          1980.     387.2 NATIONAL

 

Mystic Seaport Museum Watercraft.  Maynard Bray, 1979.     623.82 BRAY

 

Portsmouth’s Heyday in Shipbuilding.  Gertrude Pickett, 1979.     974.27 PICKETT

 

The Windjammers.  Oliver E. Allen, 1978.     Q  387 ALLEN

 

Five Centuries of Famous Ships;  from the Santa Maria to the Glomar Explorer.  Robert G. Albion,

          1978.     387 ALBION

 

Steamboats Come True:  American Inventors in Action.  James Thomas Flexner, 1978.    

          623.823 FLEXNER

 

The History of Ships.  Peter Kemp, 1978.     Q 387 KEMP

 

Sail, Steam, and Splendour:  a Picture History of Life Aboard the Transatlantic Liners.  Byron S.

          Miller, 1977.     Q 387 MILLER

 

The Medley of Mast and Sail:  a Camera Record…  Frank G. Carr, 1976.    387.2 CARR

Archaeology of the Boat:  a New Introductory Study.  Basil Greenhill, 1976.     913.03 GREENHILL

 

Victorian and Edwardian Sailing Ships from Old Photographs. Basil Greenhill, 1976.

          387 GREENHILL

 

Ships and the Sea:  a Chronological Review.  Duncan Haws, 1975.   Q 387.2 HAWS

 

Heart of Oak:  a Survey of British Sea Power in the Georgian Era.  G.J. Marcus, 1975.

          942.07 MARCUS

 

China Tea Clippers.  George Frederick Campbell, 1974.     387.2 CAMPBELL

 

Men, Ships, and the Sea.  Alan Villiers, 1973.     387 VILLIERS

 

Ships Through the Ages.  Douglas Lobley, 1972.     Q 387 LOBLEY

 

Wake of the Coasters.  John F. Leavitt, 1970.     387.0976 LEAVITT

 

They Live by the Wind:  the Lore and Romance of the Last Sailing Workboats:  the Grand Banks Schooners, the Square-rigged Training Ships, the Chesapeake Oysterboats, the Fishing Sloops of the Bahamas.  Wendell P. Bradley, 1969.      910.4 BRADLEY

 

Rushton and his Times in American Canoeing.  Atwood Manley, 1968.     623.829 MANLEY

 

The Search for Speed Under Sail, 1700-1855.  Howard I. Chapelle, 1967.    387 CHAPELLE

 

The Great Age of Sail.  B. W. Bathe, 1967.     Q 387 JOBE

 

The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America.  Tappan Adney, 1964.     Q 387 ADNEY

 

Square-rigger Days.  Warren Armstrong, 1964.     910.4 ARMSTRONG

 

Voices on the River:  the Story of the Mississippi Waterways.  Walter Havighurst, 1964.    

          917.7 HAVIGHURST

 

Colonial Vessels:  Some Seventeenth-century Sailing Craft.  William A. Baker,     1962.    387 BAKER

 

Men, Ships, and the Sea.  Alan Villiers, 1962.     Q 387 VILLIERS

 

The Ship, an Illustrated History.  Björn Landström, trans. Michael Phillips, 1961.  Q 387 LANDSTROM

 

The National Watercraft Collection.  Howard I. Chapelle, 1960.     Q 387 CHAPELLE

 

Five Sea Captains:  Amasa, Delano, Edmund Fanning, Richard Cleveland, George Coggeshall, Joshua Slocum:  Their Own Accounts of Voyages Under Sail.  Walter Magnes Teller, 1960.

          910.TELLER

 

History of American Steam Navigation.  John H. Morrison, 1958.    387.509 MORRISON

 

History of Marine Navigation.  Per Arne Collinder, trans. Maurice Michael, 1955.   623.89 COLLINDER

 

Five Hundred Sailing Records of American Built Ships.  Carl C. Cutler, 1952. 

          387 CUTLER

 

The History of the American Sailing Navy: the Ships and Their Development.  Howard I. Chapelle,

          1949.     387 CHAPELLE

 

The Old Bay Line, 1840-1940.  Alexander Crosby Brown, 1940.   387.2 BROWN

 

Steamboat Days.  Fred Erving Dayton, 1939.     656 DAYTON

 

Fifty South to Fifty South:  the Story of a Voyage West Around Cape Horn in the Schooner Wander Bird.  Warwick M. Tompkins, 1938.     910.4 TOMPKINS

 

The History of American Sailing Ships. Howard I. Chapelle, 1935.     699 CHAPELLE

 

The Sailing Ships of New England.  Series Two.  John  Robinson, 1924.    R 387 DOW SERIES 2

 

Sailing Ships:  the Story of Their Development from the Earliest Times to the Present Day.

           E. Keble Chatterton, 1909.     797.1 CHATTERTON

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