Some Titles referring to Biographies and auto-biographies
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| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biographies [ auto-biographies below ] | ||||
| The Sea Years of Joseph Conrad | Allen, Jerry | Doubleday and Co | 65-19927 | 1965 |
| Champlain | Armstrong, Joe C.W. | MacMillan Company Canada | 0-7715-9501-8 | 1987 |
| The Bligh Notebook | Bach, John | Allen and Unwin | 0-04-909032-1 | 1987 |
| Dear Sarah | Borden Jr., Norman E. | The Bond WheelWright Company, Freeport, Maine, | 1966 | |
| Stephen Decatur | Brady, Cyrus Townsend | Small, Maynard, and Co, Boston | 1900 | |
| The Adventures of John Wetherell | C. S. Forester | Michael Joseph | 0-7181-3844-9 | 1994 |
| The Life and Letters of David Beatty | Chalmers, W.S. | Hodder And Stoughton | 1951 | |
| A Mariner of England | Childers, Colonel Spencer | John Murray | 1908 | |
| Lord Cochrane | Christopher Lloyd | Owl Books | 0-8050-5569-X | 1998 |
| Sea-Borne Thirty years Avoyaging | Connolly, James B. | Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc. | 1944 | |
| Jack Tier | Cooper, J. Fenimore | Houghton,Mufflin & Company | 1884 | |
| Clinton Crane's Yaching Memories | Crane, Clinton | D. Van Nostrand Company | 1952 | |
| Naval Surgeon, the Cree journals | Cree, Edward Hodges | E.P. Dutton | 0-525-24121-3 | 1981 |
| The Nagle Journal | Dann, John C. (editor) | Weidenfeld and Nicolson | 1-555-84223-2 | 1988 |
| The Voyage of the Beagle | Darwin, Charles | bantam books | 1958 | |
| I Ran Away To Sea as Fifty | Fahnestock, Mary Sheridan | Harcourt, BraceAnd Company | 1939 | |
| Cleopatra's Barge | Ferguson, David L. | Little, Brown | 76-16491 | 1976 |
| Heroes from Hakluyt | Finger, Charles J. - Ed. | The Henry Holt Company | 1928 | |
| Concise Biographical Dictionary | Fitzhugh | Grosset & Dunlap | 1935 | |
| Surgeon of the Seas | Foltz, Charles S | Bobbs-Merrill | 1931 | |
| Beaufort of the Admiralty | Friendly, Alfred | Random House | 77-06022 | 1977 |
| Thomas Bone the Sailors' Friend | Gibson, Jesse | The Upper Canada Tract Society | ||
| Bering's Voyages Vol 1 | Golder, F.A. | American Geographical Society | 1922 | |
| Bering's Voyages Vol 2 | Golder, F.A. | American Geographical Society | 1922 | |
| Moana the Vastness of the Sea | Gorsky, Bernard | Elek Books | 1956 | |
| A Sailor's Life | Hartog, Jan de | Harper and Brothers | LoC 55-8991 | 1955 |
| The MountBattens | Hatch, Alden | Random House | 1965 | |
| The Writings of Stephen B. Luce | Hayes, John D., Hettendorf, John B. | Naval War College | 1975 | |
| My old man and the sea | Hays, David, Daniel | Workman Publishing | 1-56512-102-3 | 1995 |
| 96 Years in The Royal Navy | Heine, William C. | LanceLot Press | 0-88999-329-7 | 1987 |
| The Sea Lark | Helm, Thomas | A.A. Wyn | 55-10883 | 1955 |
| Captain Nat Herreshoff | Herreshoff, L. Francis | Sheridan House | 1953 | |
| Captains from Devon | Hill Miller, Helen | Algonquin Books | 0-912697-27-x | 1985 |
| And Tomorrow the Stars | Hill, Kay | Dodd, Mead and Company | 68-27819 | 1968 |
| Juet's Journal | Juet, Robert | The New Jersey Historical Society | 0-919001-54-8 | 1959 |
| De Gaulle, The Rebel 1890-1944 | Lacouture, Jean | Harvill | 0-00-271288-1 | 1990 |
| De Gaulle, The Ruler 1945-1970 | Lacouture, Jean | Harvill | 0-00-271289-X | 1992 |
| Franklin Happy Voyager | Lamb, G.F. | Ernest Benn Ltd | 1956 | |
| Count Frontenac, Wolfe and Montcalm | Le Sueur, William D | OxfordUniversity Press | 1928 | |
| Stefansson Ambassador of the North | LeBordais, D.M. | Harvest House | 63-17243 | 1963 |
| Mr. Barrow of the Admiralty | Lloyd, Christopher | Collins | 00-211528-x | 1970 |
| Nathaniel Bowditch | Loring, Augustus P. | Newcomen Society | 1950 | |
| An Arctic Man | Lyall, Ernie | Hurtig Publishers | 0-88780-106-4 | 1979 |
| William Dennison Lyon | Lyon, William Dennison | Brookline | private | 1919 |
| Sailing With Mr.Belloc | MacCarthy, Dermod | Grafton | 0-246-13244-2 | 1987 |
| Captain Cook | MacLean, Alistair | Fontana/ Collins | 1972 | |
| A Million Miles In Sail | McCulloch, John Herries | Dodd, Mead & Company | 1933 | |
| Bligh, a True Account of his Mutiny aboard HMS Bounty | McKinney, Sam | International Marine Publishing Co | 0-87742-981-2 | 1988 |
| Some Mariners of France | Minnegerode, Meade | G.P Putnam's Sons | 1930 | |
| Commodore Isaac Hull, USN | Molloy, Leo T | The Hull Book Fund | 1964 | |
| Admiral of the Ocean Sea | Morison, Samuel Eliot | Little, Brown and Co | 1-56731-143-1 | 1942 |
| John Paul Jones | Morison, Samuel Eliot | Time Inc. | 1964 | |
| Venture Library, The | Newbolt, Sir Henry | Longmans | 1931 | |
| So noble a Captain | Parr, Charles McKew | Thomas Y. Crowell | LoC 53-7525 | 1953 |
| Shorter Pepys, The | Pepys, Latham, Samuel, Robert (editor) | University of California | 0-520-03426-0 | 1985 |
| Henry Hudson | Powys, Llewelyn | The Bodley Head | 1927 | |
| Journals of Hezekiah Prince Jr | Prince, Hezekiah | Crown Publishers | 65-24321 | 1965 |
| Ran away to sea | Reid, Capt Mayne | Private (Ticknor and Fields) | 1859 | |
| Lord Riddell's War Diary | Riddell, Lord | Ivor Nicholson and Watson | 1933 | |
| Captain Kidd | Ritchie, Robert C. | Barnes & Noble | 0-7607-0840-1 | 1998 |
| Deep water and Shoal | Robinson, William Albert | Johnathan Cape | 1939 | |
| My Livel Lady | Rose, sir Alec | Pan Books | 0-330-02408-6 | 1968 |
| From the Forecastle to the Cabin | Samuels, Samuel S. Captain | Harper and Brothers, | 1887 | |
| The Eye of the Wind | Scott, Peter | Hodder and Stoughton | 1961 | |
| Life of John Quincy Adams | Seward, William H. | Henry T. Coates | 1887 | |
| Heritage of the Bounty, The | Shapiro, Harry L | Simon and Schuster | 1936 | |
| Sailing Alone | Slocum, Joshua | Penguin | 0-14-043736-3 | 1999 |
| Captain Joshua Slocum | Slocum, Victor | Sheridan House | 0-911378-04-9 | 1950 |
| Prime Ministers of Queen Victoria | Smith, G. Barnett | George Routledge and Sons | 1888 | |
| Alone at Sea | Spencer, Ann | Doubleday Canada Ltd. | 0-385-25720-1 | 1998 |
| Steered By the Falling Stars | Spurr, Daniel | Ragged Mountain Press | 0-87742-332-6 | 1992 |
| Uncommon Sailor, An | Street, Lucie | St Martins Press | 0-312-01526-7 | 1988 |
| Life on the Mississippi | Twain, Mark | New english library limited | 1961 | |
| Captain Cook | Villiers, Alan | Penguin books | 1967 | |
| Nelson - see also Nelson | Walder, David | Dial Press | 0-8037-6431-6 | 1978 |
| Commandore Perry's | Wallach, Sidney | Coward-McCann, Inc. | 1952 | |
| William Damier | Wilkinson, Clennell | The Bodley Head | 1929 | |
| Mount Batten | Ziegler, Philip | Knopf | 0-394-52098-X | 1985 |
| Autobiographies - back to biographies | ||||
| Sea Quest | Borden, Charles A | Ballantine Books | 0-345-23500-2 | 1967 |
| Lonely sea and the sky | Chichester, Francis | Coward-McCann | 64-17997 | 1964 |
| Gypsy Moth Circles the World | Chichester, Sir Francis | Pocket Books | 1969 | |
| Cooper's Sea Tales-Afloat and Ashore | Cooper, J. Fenimore | Houghton Mifflin Co | 1884 | |
| A Sailors Odyssey | Cunningham, Andrew Browne | Dutton and Co. | 1951 | |
| Two years before the mast | Dana, Richard Henry | Collins | 1840 | |
| Captain of the Queens | Grattidge, Captain H. | Oldbourne Press | 1964 | |
| Sailing Spirit, The , Meeting the BOC Challenge | Hughes, John | Seal Books | 0-7704-2280-2 | 1988 |
| Recollections of an Ole Salt | Johnston, Lorne | Lorne Johnston | 1982 | |
| Incredible Voyage | Jones. Tristan | Sheed Andrews and McMeel | 0-8362-0703-3 | 1977 |
| Cape Farewell | Martinsson, Harry | G.P Putnam's Sons | 1934 | |
| All This and Sailing, Too | Stephens, Olin J. II | Mystic Seaport | 0-913372-89-7 | 1999 |
| Prisoner of the Kormoran | Taylor, James and Jones W.A. | George G. Harrap | 1945 | |
| Lower Class | Youell, George | George Youell | 1938 | |
| Sailing the Seven Seas | Chase, Mart Ellen | North Star Books | (for juniors) | 1958 |
The above represents part of our holdings on this subject - these books are all available for consultation - some of the older titles may be handled only by a Curator, or by a Member who has received approved training in the handling of archival material. Biographies, engravings, paintings, charts, etc are not listed. [Updated Dec 2002.] Our online catalogue (OPAC) is available here.
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