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Narratives Category
| From small canoe adventures to whaling voyages, nautical narratives teach us about seamanship, the ports of yesterday, and take us back to when travel by boat was a necesssity of life. The classic narratives can be more exciting than any novel. |
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Four Months in a Sneak Box (Illustrated)By: Nathaniel H. BishopThe author navigates and narrates through America's inland waterways during an 1874 voyage in 12 foot boat. |
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Narrative of the Wreck of the Whale-ship EssexBy: Owen ChaseThe true story that inspired Melville's Moby Dick, sensational in its time and still a mortal tale of the sea. |
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Two Years Before the MastBy: Richard Henry DanaA Boston Brahmin escapes his comfortable life by serving as a common sailor on a voyage up the pre-gold rush west coast. |
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The Voyage of the Beagle (Illustrated)By: Charles DarwinObservations about finch beaks and del Fuegian natives lead to the most important book since the Bible. This is the story of the voyage that produced the insights. |
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The Cruise of the SnarkBy: Jack LondonLondon's memoir of cruising the South Pacific with his beloved wife. |
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Newton ForsterBy: Frederick Marryat |
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South (Illustrated)By: Ernest ShackletonThe legendary true story of Victorian gumption, leadership and seamanship. |
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Sailing Alone Around the WorldBy: Joshua SlocumA Nova Scotian rebuilds an old oyster boat and sails around the world in the seminal work for singlehanded sailors. |
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The Voyage of the LiberdadeBy: Joshua SlocumThe Slocum family, wrecked on the South American coast, builds themselves a junk-rigged canoe and sails home. |
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Voyage of the Destroyer, from New York to BrazilBy: Joshua Slocum |
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An Inland VoyageBy: Robert Louis Stevenson |
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The Sea and the JungleBy: H. M. TomlinsonA literary account of a pre-WWI tramp steamer voyage, written after the war by a journalist who had since become an anti-war writer. |
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Knotes, Splices and Rope WorkBy: A. H. Verrill |
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Anson's Voyage Round the WorldBy: Richard Walter |
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