Vintage sailing book cover

Annie Brassey. A voyage in the yacht Sunbeam, our home on the ocean for eleven months with illus. chiefly after drawings by A. Y. Bingham. Chicago, 1890.

'On Many Seas, The Life and Exploits of a Yankee Sailor' -- Frederick Benton Williams, 1897. An exceptionally plain-spoken account of a lifetime spent working in sail, both mercantile and naval. Tremendous stories drawn from experience of all the world's oceans, and most of its trades. From leaving the interior of Maine in the mid-1850s, traveling to most of the world's oceans, leaving a trail of tales, stories, and yarns in his wake.

→ Tying Knots, Eric Franklin (C.Arthur Pearson Ltd, London, 1960)

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267 p. ; 20 cm

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Authors quoted: p. xv-xx

"Cap'n George Fred" by George Fred Tilton, 1929

viii, [9]-177 p. 22 cm

sailing (1968 ed.)

'Anecdotes of a Life on the Ocean' by David Cowans. Dunn & Wright; Glasgow, 1878

Markham, Clements. (ed.) EARLY SPANISH VOYAGES TO THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN. Lon. 1911. Second Series, Number 28. “Narratives of the second voyage through the strait, commanded by the Comendador Loaysa and Sebastián del Cano, 1524-6, the third voyage, under the command of Simón de Alcazaba, 1534-5, and the reconnaissance by Bartolomé and Gonzalo de Nodal, 1618-19; with a fragment relating to the expedition sent by the bishop of Plasencia under Alonso de Camargo, 1539-41.”