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• Early works to 1800

• Philosophical experiments: containing useful, and necessary instructions for such as undertake long voyages at sea. Shewing how sea-water may be made fresh and wholsome: and how fresh water may be preserv'd sweet. How biscuit, corn, &c. may be secured from the weevel, meggots, and other insects. And flesh preserv'd in hot climates, by salting animals whole. To which is added, an account of several experiments and observations on chalybeate or steel-waters ... which were read before the Royal-society, at several of their meetings (W. Innys and R. Manby [etc.], 1739), by Stephen Hales and Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Famous and wonderful recovery of a ship of Bristol, called the Exchange, from the Turkish pirates of Argier: [A relation of the retaking of the island of Sta. Helena, and three Dutch East-India ships. A true relation of a brave English stratagem practised upon a sea town in Galicia. The worthy and famous voyage of Master Thomas Cavendish, made round about the globe of the Earth. The most dangerous and memorable adventure of Richard Ferris. A true and exact account of the retaking of a ship, called the Friend's Adventure, of Topsham, from the French. Three to one / Richard Peeke. The petty Navy Royal / Doctor John Dee. A relation of the great sufferings and strange adventures of Henry Pitman.] (s.n., 1576) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The melancholy narrative of the distressful voyage and miraculous deliverance of Captain David Harrison, of the sloop, Peggy, of New-York, on his voyage from Fyal, one of the Western Islands, to New-York ... till he was happily relieved by ... Capt. Evers of the Susanna, in the Virginia trade ... being authenticated ... before the Right Hon. George Nelson ... (Printed for James Harrison, 1766), by David Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Home is the Sailor (Birmingham, AL: Vulcan Press, 1955), by Herbert Hartley and Clint Bonner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Titanic and Other Ships (author died in 1952; work first published 1935), by C. H. Lightoller (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• I'm Alone (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1930), by Jack Randell and Meigs O. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jack in the Forecastle: or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale, by John Sherburne Sleeper (Gutenberg text)
• Land-Travel and Sea-Faring (London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1891), by Morley Roberts, illust. by A. D. McCormick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Notes by the Way in a Sailor's Life, by Arthur E. Knights (Gutenberg text)
• The Sea Rovers (New York: B. W. Dodge and Co., 1906), by Rufus Rockwell Wilson, illust. by May Fratz (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Windjammers and Sea Tramps (second edition; London et al.: W. Scott Pub. Co., 1905), by Walter Runciman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Lieutenant and Commander: Being Autobiographical Sketches of His Own Career, From Fragments of Voyages and Travels (London: Bell and Daldy, 1862), by Basil Hall (Gutenberg text)
• The Mirror of the Sea, by Joseph Conrad (multiple formats at Standard Ebooks)
• The Mirror of the Sea (third edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1907), by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text)
• My Voyage Around the Globe (Shawano, WI: Wiegand and Esser, printers, 1897), by W. L. Fosdick
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• The Wooden World Dissected, in the Character of a Ship of War: As Also, the Characters of All the Officers, From the Captain to the Common Sailor (seventh edition, 1760), by Edward Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Whaling Wives (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1953), by Emma Mayhew Whiting and Henry Beetle Hough (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy: A Weird Series of Tales of Shipwreck and Disaster, From The Earliest Part of The Century To The Present Time, With Accounts of Providential Escapes and Heart-Rending Fatalities (New York: Hurst and Co., n.d.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana (HTML at Bartleby)
• Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, contrib. by Richard Henry Dana (Gutenberg text)
• Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, contrib. by Homer Eaton Keyes (Gutenberg text)
• The cradle of the deep (Simon and Schuster, 1929), by Joan Lowell and Kurt Wiese (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years before the mast (University pub. co., 1897), by Richard Henry Dana and Edward R. Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years before the mast (J. M. Dent & sons, ltd.;, 1912), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Two years before the mast : (Harper & Brothers, 1840), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years before the mast; a personal narrative of life at sea (The Macmillan company, 1945), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years before the mast; a personal narrative of life at sea (The Macmillan company, 1911), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Idylls of the sea, and other marine sketches (G. Richards, 1904), by Frank Thomas Bullen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mirror of the sea : memories and impressions. (Doubleday, Page, 1923), by Joseph Conrad (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The saga of a supercargo (Macrae Smith co., 1926), by Fullerton L. Waldo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Foc's'le and glory-hole. (Merchant marine publishers association, 1936), by James Christopher Healey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our seamen. An appeal (Virtue & Co., 1873), by Samuel Plimsoll (page images at HathiTrust)
• Greenwich hospital, a series of naval sketches, descriptive of the life of a man-of-war's man. (J. Robins and Co. [etc., etc.], 1826), by Old Sailor, James Robins, and George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Last essays (J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1926), by Joseph Conrad and Richard Curle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Pacific (T.Y. Crowell, 1931), by Stanley Reginald Harry Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Cameron's odyssey. (The Macmillan company, 1928), by John Cameron and Andrew Farrell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pedro Gorino; the adventures of a Negro sea-captain in Africa and on the seven seas in his attempts to found an Ethiopian empire (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929), by Harry Dean and Sterling North (page images at HathiTrust)
• The log of a limejuicer. (Huntington press, 1933), by James P. Barker and Roland Barker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Windjamming to Fiji (Rae D. Henkel co., 1929), by Viola Irene Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of a stowaway; a career of adventure (Chapman & Hall, ltd., 1920), by C. E. Gouldsbury (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The making of a sailor; or, Sea life aboard a Yankee square-rigger (Marine research society, 1928), by Frederick Pease Harlow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cape Horn breed : my experiences as an apprentice in sail in the full-rigged ship "British Isles" as told to P. R. Stephensen. By William H. S. Jones. (Criterion Books, 1956), by William Herbert Sidney Jones and P. R. Stephensen (page images at HathiTrust)
• White sails and spindrift. (Odyssey Press, 1947), by Frank Hubert Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the deep of the sea, being the diary of the late Charles Edward Smith, M.R.C.S., surgeon of the whaleship Diana, of Hull (The Macmillan Company, 1923), by Charles Edward Smith and Charles Edward Smith Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The log of Bob Bartlett : the true story of forty years of seafaring and exploration (Blue Ribbon Books, 1928), by Bob Bartlett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mariner's chronicle: containing narratives of the most remarkable disasters at sea, such as shipwrecks, storms, fires, and famines. (G. W. Gorton, 1834), by Archibald Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)
• My life at sea; being a "yarn" loosely spun for the purpose of holding together certain reminiscences of the transition period from sail to steam in the British mercantile marine (1863-1894) (Chapman and Hall, ltd., 1912), by William Caius Crutchley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reminiscences of a Blackwall midshipman. (W. J. Ham-Smith, 1912), by Walter I. Downie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Round the Horn before the mast. (E. P. Dutton and company, 1928), by Basil Lubbock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Watch below; a reconstruction in narrative form of the golden age of steam when coal took the place of wind and the tramp steamer's smoke covered the seven seas. (Random house, 1940), by William McFee and Gordon Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years abaft the mast. (D. McKay, 1884), by F. W. H. Symondson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pursuing the whale; a quarter-century of whaling in the Arctic (Houghton Mifflin, 1926), by John Atkins Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The roaring forties and after (S. Low, Martson, 1929), by Donald John Munro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tramps and ladies : my early years in steamers (Criterion Books, 1959), by James Bisset (page images at HathiTrust)
• This was seafaring : a sea chest of salty memories. (Superior Pub. Co., 1955), by Ralph W. Andrews and Harry A. Kirwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sea lanes; man's conquest of the ocean. (Minton, Balch & company, 1935), by Martin D. Stevers and Jonas Pendlebury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joies et tristesses de la mer. (Librairie Saint-Joseph, 1888), by Faucher de Saint-Maurice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty years before the mast : with the more thrilling scenes and incidents while circumnavigating the globe under the command of the late Admiral Charles Wilkes 1838-1842 (George W. Jacobs, 1896), by Charles Erskine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of the adventures and sufferings of Samuel Patterson, who made three voyages to the North west coast of America, and who sailed to the Sandwich Islands, and to many other parts of this world before being shipwrecked on the Feegee Islands. (Ye Galleon Press, 1967), by Samuel Patterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Before the mast--and after: the autobiography of a sailor and shipowner (E. Benn limited, 1928), by Walter Runciman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The man before the mast; being the story of twenty years afloat (Methuen & co. ltd., 1928), by George Sorrell and Cicely Fox Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ocean life in the old sailing ship days, from forecastle to quarter-deck (Little, Brown, and company, 1908), by John D. Whidden (page images at HathiTrust)
• With Christ at sea, a personal record of religious experiences on board ship for fifteen years ... (Stokes, 1900), by Frank Thomas Bullen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Samuel Kelly : an eighteenth century seaman, whose days have been few and evil, to which is added remarks, etc., on places he visited during his pilgrimage in this wilderness (Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1925), by Samuel Kelly and Crosbie Garstin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of a ship from her cradle to her grave : with a short account of modern steamships and torpedoes. (George Routledge & Sons, 1882) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain of the Ile (McGraw-Hill, 1960), by Raoul de Beaudéan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jottings from a cruise ([The Kelly printing company, inc.], 1947), by Alfred J. Green and Alan A. Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lights and shadows of sailor life, as exemplified in fifteen years' experience, including the more thrilling events of the U.S. exploring expedition, and reminiscences of an eventful life on the "Mountain wave." (B. B. Mussey, 1848), by Joseph G. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Love smugglers and naval heroes : being historical notes of the eighteenth century (Cecil Palmer, 1929), by Lilian Boys Behrens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ned Myers; or, A life before the mast. (Lea and Blanchard, 1843), by James Fenimore Cooper and Lea & Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mirror of the sea (Harper & Brothers, 1906), by Joseph Conrad (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Before the mast--and after: the autobiography of a sailor and shipowner (Lauriat, 1924), by Walter Runciman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aboard the Mavis : it is told in this book how five boys and five girls cruise in the schooner "Mavis" about the east end of Long Island, and how, in addition to sundry good times, they learn somewhat of the early history of their country (Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1880), by Richard Markham, Frank Beard, Milton J. Burns, George F. Swain, Avery & Co Rand, and Mead & Company Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seven years of a sailor's life. (Adams & Company, 1867), by George Edward Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• A stately southerner (Houghton Mifflin company, 1926), by Rex Clements (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Yarns from a windjammer (H. Cranston limited, 1926), by Mannin Crane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The log of a shellback : a narrative of life and adventure before the mast in the 'nineties. (F. A. Stokes, 1925), by H. F. Farmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of an ancient mariner : being reminiscences of seafaring life half a century ago (Partridge, 1892), by C. H. Fretwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scènes de la vie maritime. (L. Hachette, 1853), by Basil Hall and Amédée Pichot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Around the Horn and home again, and other tales (W. Blackwood, 1929), by Frank Coutts Hendry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Yarns of an old shellback (Brentano, 1925), by J. L. Vivian Millett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Knocking around (Cassell and Company, ltd., 1927), by Frank H 1878- Shaw (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ocean adventures; or, Cabin and forecastle yarns of thrilling incidents (G. W. Cottrell, 1858), by John Sherburne Sleeper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Harry Watts; sixty years sailor & diver (Hills and co., 1911), by Alfred Spencer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The sea rovers (B. W. Dodge and company, 1906), by Rufus Rockwell Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of a sailor's life. (to be had of George Legg, 1852), by Francis Bergh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ocean life in the old sailing ship days : from forecastle to quarter-deck (Little, Brown, and Co., 1914), by John D 1832- Whidden (page images at HathiTrust)
• By way of Cape Horn : four months in a Yankee clipper (J.B. Lippincott, 1899), by Paul Eve Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• We're sailing in the morning. (Stephen Daye press, 1937), by James Sewell Coolen and E. H. Carlson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vanishing trails; ten years of a wanderer's life (A.&C. Black, 1926), by Harrison Clifford Dale (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The confessions of a seaman (Arrowsmith, 1924), by Peter Blundell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life on the ocean, or thirty five years at sea. Being the personal adventures of the author. (Riverside press, 1893), by William C. Paddack (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of the Gloucester fishermen (The John Day Company, 1927), by James B. Connolly and Henry O'Connor (page images at HathiTrust)
• A farewell to my old shipmates and messmates : with some examples, and a few hints of advice (W. Woodward, 1847), by John Béchervaise (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in the mercantile marine (John Lane, 1903), by Charles Protheroe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On board the "Rocket". (D. Lothrop and Company, 1879), by Robert C. Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• My ditty-bag (Small, Maynard, 1925), by Charles W. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Sailor-boy's log-book from Portsmouth to the Peiho (Chapman and Hall, 1862), by Walter White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Samuel Kelly, an eighteenth century seaman : whose days have been few and evil, to which is added remarks, etc., on places he visited during his pilgrimage in this wilderness (J. Cape, ltd., 1925), by Samuel Kelly and Crosbie Garstin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The seas were mine (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1935), by Howard Hartman and George Sidney Hellman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Milton A. Dalby has here set forth the sea saga of Dynamite Johnny O'Brien, American master mariner for fifty-three years; a seaman for sixty-five years; whose shipmates and friends called him the "Nestor of the Pacific"; who feared God but defied His storms; who fought the good fight; whose fists were as hard as his spirit was stout. (Lowman & Hanford company, 1933), by Milton Arthur Dalby (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and voyages of Wm. M. Phillipson; a personal record of adventures (The Banner, 1924), by William M. Phillipson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yankee Swanson; chapters from a life at sea (Sturgis & Walton, 1913), by A. W. Nelson and Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• In great waters; the story of the Portuguese fishermen (The Macmillan Company, 1941), by Josef Berger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Log of the Edward Sewall, 1911-1912. (Privately published by Lawrence C. Howard, 1958), by Lawrence C. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• A mariner's sketches (Cory, Marshall and Hammond, 1830), by N. Ames (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mirror of the sea. (Doubleday, Page, 1921), by Joseph Conrad (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• California's sea frontier (McNally and Loftin, 1962), by Mabel M Rockwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cannibal nights : the reminiscences of a free-lance trader (G. Bles, 1927), by H. E Raabe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dagbok fra en sjøreise (Steenske forlag, 1923), by Tryggve Andersen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gens de mer (A. Colin & cie., 1897), by Charles Le Goffic (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorable shipwrecks and seafaring adventures of the nineteenth century (W. Scott, 1907), by J. F. Layson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• We and the world : a book for boys (G. Bell & Sons, 1910), by Juliana Horatia Ewing and M. V. Wheelhouse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Yankee Swanson; chapters from a life at sea (Sturgis & Walton, 1917), by Andrew Walfrid Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thirty years at sea. The story of a sailor's life. (J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1879), by Edward Shippen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jack in the forecastle (Crosby, Nichols, Lee, 1860), by John Sherburne Sleeper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jack in the forecastle : or, Incidents in the early life of Hawser Martingale [pseud] (Estes & Lauriat, 1880), by Hawser Martingale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The merchant vessel (Dodd, Mead & company, 1895), by Charles Nordhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our seamen : an appeal (Virtue & Co., 1873), by Samuel Plimsoll (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Ben's book. (Lakeside press, printers, 1895), by Benjamin J. Willard (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sack of shakings (C. Arthur Pearson, 1901), by Frank Thomas Bullen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Ben's book : a record of things which happened to Capt. Benjamin J. Willard, pilot and stevedore, during some sixty years on sea and land (Lakeside Press, 1895), by Benjamin J. Willard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old sailor's story : or, A short account of the life, adventures and voyages of Capt. Gurdon L. Allyn. Including three trips around the world (Printed by Gordon Wilcox, 1879), by Gurdon L. Allyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mariner's library of voyager's companion : Containing narratives of the most popular voyages from the time of Columbus to the present day; with accounts of remarkable shipwrecks, naval adventures, the whale-fishery, &c. and illustrated by fine engravings. (C. Gaylord, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fragments of voyages and travels ... (R. Cadell, 1832), by Basil Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four years aboard the whaleship. Embracing cruises in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Antarctic oceans, in the years 1855, '6, '7, '8, '9. (J.B. Lippincott & Co.; [etc., etc.], 1864), by William B. Whitecar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the ocean; or, Twenty years at sea: being the personal adventures of the author (C.D. Strong, 1851), by George Little (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diary of Henry Teonge, chaplain on board His Majesty's ships Assistance, Bristol, and Royal Oak, anno 1675 to 1679. (Printed for C. Knight, 1825), by Henry Teonge and Charles Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lieutenant and commander; being autobiographical sketches of his own career, from fragments of voyages and travels (Bell and Daldy, 1862), by Basil Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lieutenant & commander; being autobiographical sketches of his own career, from Fragments of voyages & travels. (Ticknor, 1866), by Basil Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zeemans handboek (J. Allart, 1781), by J. F. Martinet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ocean scenes, or, The perils and beauties of the deep; being interesting, instructive, and graphic accounts of the most popular voyages on record, remarkable shipwrecks, hair-breadth escapes, naval adventures, the whale fishery... (Leavitt, Trow & Company, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scènes de la vie maritime (C. Gosselin, 1832), by A. Jal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lights and shadows of a sailor life : as exemplified in fifteen years' experience, including the more thrilling events of the U.S. exploring expedition, and reminiscences of an eventful life on the "Mountain Wave" (J. Putnam, 1847), by Joseph G. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nautical reminiscences. (W. Marshall;, 1832), by N. Ames (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deep sea vagabonds (McClure, Phillips & Co., 1903), by Albert Sonnichsen and Phillips & Co McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mariner's chronicle : being a collection of the most interesting narratives of shipwrecks, fires, famines, and other calamities incident to a life of maritime enterprise (Printed and published by James Cundee, 1804), by Archibald Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mariner's chronicle; being a collection of the most interesting narratives of shipwrecks, fires, famines, and other calamities incident to a life of maritime enterprise ... (Printed and sold by James Humphreys, Change Walk, The Corner of Walnut and Second-streets., 1806), by Archibald Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The man-o'-war's-man. (W. Blackwood and sons, 1843), by D. Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales of shipwrecks and adventures at sea ... (W.M. Clark, 1846), by James Lindridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• There go the ships and After many days (C. W. Moulton, 1898), by Henry Vallette Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Helden zur See; Seefahrten und Abenteuer von der ersten Umselgelung Afrikas bis auf die neueste Zeit (Union deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1890), by Julius Reuper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jack in the forecastle; or, Incidents in the early life of Hawser Martingale. (Worthington Co., 1886), by John Sherburne Sleeper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book of the ocean, and life on the sea; containing thrilling narratives and adventures of ocean life, in all countries, from the earliest period to the present time. (Alden & Beardsley, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A month in the coasting trade. A true narrative. (Wyman & Sons, 1877), by A. E. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years before the mast : a personal narrative (Houghton Mifflin, 1911), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years before the mast : a personal narrative (Houghton Miffin company, 1911), by Richard Henry Dana and E. Boyd Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Home from sea (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1908), by George Savary Wasson, Riverside Press, and Houghton Mifflin Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The crew of the Dolphin (Dodd, Mead & Co., 1876), by Hesba Stretton and Mead & Company Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of a sailor (R. Bentley, 1832), by Frederick Chamier (page images at HathiTrust)
• A deep-water voyage (Lippincott, 1897), by Paul Eve Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the ocean : or Twenty years at sea : being the personal adventures of the author (R. Marsh, 1856), by George Little (page images at HathiTrust)
• Land-travel and sea-faring (Lawrence and Bullen, 1891), by Morley Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of the sea (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1930), by G. Gibbard Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Windjammer yarns; some incidents in the life of a South African seaman aboard the wooden ships and steam tramps of fifty years ago (H. F. & G. Witherby, 1923), by Alex Anderson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ocean tramps : by themselves (The Norman, Remington co., 1926), by Edgar Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wide seas & many lands : an autobiography (J. Cape, 1923), by Arthur Mason (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• ... On Pacific frontiers, a story of life at sea and in outlying possessions of the United States (World book company, 1924), by Carl Rydell and Elmer Green (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• From the forecastle to the cabin (Harper, 1887), by Samuel Samuels (page images at HathiTrust)
• The brotherhood of the sea (Longmans, Green and co. ltd., 1927), by E. Keble Chatterton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Captain Lefavor's forty years' travels at sea and in foreign countries. With an account of his shipwrecks. (Bellows, 1881), by Captain Lefavor (page images at HathiTrust)
• A cruise in an opium clipper (Chapman and Hall, 1891), by Lindsay Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Five years before the mast : or life in the forecastle; aboard of a whaler and man-of-war (Lippincott, 1884), by Jacob A. Hazen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erinnerungen und Bilder aus dem Seeleben. (Allgemeiner verein für deutsche litteratur, 1898), by Reinhold von Werner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal reminiscences ... (Little, Brown, and company, 1878), by R. B. Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• A home on the deep; or, The mariner's trials on the dark blue sea. (Higgins, Bradley & Dayton, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Matrosen : Erinnerung, ein Skizzenbuch: handelt von Wasser und blauem Tuch (Internationale Bibliothek, 1928), by Joachim Ringelnatz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Yankee skippers to the rescue (Dodd, Mead & company, 1940), by Felix Riesenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naval adventures during thirty-five years' service (R. Bentley, 1833), by William Bowers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mariner's chronicle : containing narratives of the most remarkable disasters at sea, such as shipwrecks, storms, fires, and famines, also naval engagements, piratical adventures, incidents of discovery, and other extraordinary and interesting occurrences ; stereotyped by A. Chandler. (G.W. Gorton, 1834), by Archibald Duncan and Archibald Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years before the mast. A personal narrative of life at sea. (Harper & brothers, 1842), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• John W. Gould's private journal of a voyage from New York to Rio de Janeiro; together with a brief sketch of his life, and his occasional writings (New York, 1838), by John W. Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the ocean : or Twenty years at sea: being the personal adventures of the author (Waite, Peirce, 1844), by George Little (page images at HathiTrust)
• The seven seas (Methuen & Co., 36 Essex Street, W.C., 1897), by Rudyard Kipling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ocean life in the old sailing ship days, from forecastle to quarter-deck (Little, Brown, and company, 1908), by John D. Whidden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after : a personal narrative (Sampson Low, Son & Marston, 1869), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years before the mast, and Twenty-four years after (Collier, 1910), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Two years before the mast : a personal narrative of life at sea. (E. Moxon, 1841), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures of Carl Rydell (E. Arnold & co., 1924), by Carl Rydell and Elmer Green (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ships & ways of other days (Lippincott, 1924), by E. Keble Chatterton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eighty years ashore and afloat, or, The thrilling adventures of Uncle Jethro : embracing the remarkable episodes in a life of toil and danger, on land and sea (A. F. Graves, 1873), by E. C Cornell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Five years before the mast (W.P. Hazard, 1854), by Jacob A. Hazen (page images at HathiTrust)
• John W. Gould's private journal of a voyage from New York to Rio de Janeiro; together with a brief sketch of his life, and his occasional writings (New York, 1839), by John W. Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• John W. Gould's private journal of a voyage from NewYork to Rio de Janeiro; together with a brief shetch of his life and his occaisonal writings (New York, 1838), by John W. Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mariner's chronicle: containing narratives of the most remarkable disasters at sea, such as shipwrecks, storms, fires, and famines: (G. W. Gorton, 1834), by Archibald Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ocean echoes; an autobiography (H. Holt and company, 1922), by Arthur Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seven years fo a sailor's life. (Adams & company, 1867), by George Edward Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Torrey's narrative; or, The life and adventures of William Torrey, who ... was held a captive by the cannibals of the Marquesas ... (Press of A. J. Wright, 1848), by William Torrey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years abaft the mast (Ashmead brothers, 1881), by Frank Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years before the mast (D. Appleton and Co., 1899), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wooden world. (E. Chappell], 1929), by Edward Ward and Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Around the galley stove : a dissertation upon stoves, galleys, cooks, ships and sailors in general (Printed by R.H. Cunningham, 1911), by Frederick William Wallace and Stamford Foundary Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The journals of Daniel Noble Johnson (1822-1863) United States Navy (Smithsonian Institution, 1959), by Daniel Noble Johnson and Mendel Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mirror of the sea (Harper & Brothers, 1919), by Joseph Conrad (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Engagement with a pirate, etc. (Damrell & Moore, 1853), by Eliah Holcomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mariner's chronicle : containing narratives of the most remarkable disasters at sea, such as shipwrecks, storms, fires, and famines, also naval engagements, piratical adventures, incidents of discovery, and other extraordinary and interesting occurrences. (G. W. Gorton, 1835) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nine years a sailor: being sketches of personal experience in the United States naval service, the American and British merchant marine, and the whaling service. (Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 1857), by Charles Nordhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years at sea, or A narrative of the adventures of William Nevens, etc. (Thurston, Fenly & co., 1846), by William Nevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Perils and beauties of the deep. (Leavitt & Allen, 1855), by Leavitt & Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ocean scenes : or, The perils and beauties of the deep : being interesting, instructive, and graphic accounts of the most popular voyages in record : remarkable shipwrecks, hair-breadth escapes, naval adventures, the whale fishery, etc. etc. (G. A. Leavitt, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A shuttle of an empire's loom ; or, Five months before the mast on a modern steam cargo-boat (W. Blackwood, 1898), by Harry Vandervell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the sea (Cassell and co., 1895), by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Five years before the mast : or life in the forecastle; aboard of a whaler and man-of-war (Willis P. Hazard, 1856), by Jacob A. Hazen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the sea : a graphic description of maritime adventures, achievements, explorations, discoveries and inventions : including hazards and perils of early navigators ... covering the many centuries of development in science and civilization from the Ark to the present time (J.W. Lyon, 1877), by Frank B. Goodrich and Edward Howland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and death on the ocean : a collection of extraordinary adventures... (H. Howe, 1870), by Henry Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of ... Captain Hugh Crow of Liverpool; comprising a narrative of his life together with descriptive sketches of the western coast of Africa; particularly of Bonny; the manners and customs of the inhabitants, the productions of the soil, and the trade of the country. To whichare added, anecdotes and observations, illustrative of the Negro character ... (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830), by Hugh Crow (page images at HathiTrust)
• A man-of-war in the East Indies : being the Log of Commission of H.M.S. "Proserpine" 1908-1910 : with a full account of the blockade of the Somali Coast, and the prevention of gun-running in the Persian Gulf (Westminster Press, 1910), by A. W. Furness (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lobster catchers; a story of the coast of Maine. (E. P. Dutton & Co., 1900), by James Otis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years before the mast. (Dent ;, 1914), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years before the mast : a personal narrative (Houghton Mifflin, 1911), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Youth, and two other stories. (Doubleday, Page, 1903), by Joseph Conrad (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stella Fregelius; a tale of three destinies (Longmans, Green, 1904), by H. Rider Haggard and Alan A. West (page images at HathiTrust)
• Round the Horn before the mast (E.P. Dutton, 1907), by Basil Lubbock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in the forecastle aboard a whaler and man of war (Belford, Clarke, 1888), by Jacob A. Hazen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The moonrakers; the story of the clipper ship men. (Harper, 1961), by Robert Carse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of the ocean (R. Carter and brothers, 1860), by John Spaulding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales of Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod, and all along shore. Eighty years ashore and afloat, or, The thrilling adventures of Uncle Jethro. Embracing the remarkable episodes in a life of toil and danger, on land and sea. (A. F. Graves, 1873), by E. C. Cornell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Five years before the mast : or life in the forecastle; aboard of a whaler and man-of-war (Belford, Clarke & Co., 1887), by Jacob A. Hazen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The log of a sea-waif being recollections of the first four years of my sea life (Methodist Book and Pub. House, 1899), by Frank T. Bullen (page images at HathiTrust)
• On board the "Rocket" (D. Lothrop Co., 1879), by Robert C. Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Five years in a sailor's life (Queen's City Pub. Co., 1886), by Birger Bech (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sailor boy's experience (s.n.], 1892), by Chas. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fore and aft, or, Leaves from the life of an old sailor (Nichols & Hall, 1871), by Webfoot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Euryalus, tales of the sea a few leaves from the diary of a midshipman. (J.D. Potter, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Midshipman's diary a few notes extracted from the cockpit journal of a man-of-war and dedicated to Sir James Matheson, Bart., M.P. by the author. (J.D. Potter, 1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Etchings of a whaling cruise with notes of a sojourn on the island of Zanzibar; and a brief history of the whale fishery, in its past and present condition (J. Murray, 1846), by J. Ross Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sea its stirring story of adventure, peril & heroism (Cassel, Petter and Galpin, 1877), by Frederick Whymper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Terrors of the sea as portrayed in accounts of fire and wreck, and narratives of poor wretches forced to abandon their floating homes without food or water, thus compelling them to resort to cannibalism, with its attendant horrors (Hurst, 1890), by Old salt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of the adventures and sufferings of Samuel Patterson experienced in the Pacific Ocean, and many other parts of the world, with an account of the Feegee and Sandwich Islands. (From the Press in Palmer, May 1, 1817), by Samuel Patterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A narrative of the adventures, sufferings and privations of Samuel Patterson, a native of Rhode-Island experienced by him in several voyages to various parts of the world, embracing a short account of the numerous places visited by him in his eventful life, and a particular description of the manners, customs, &c. of the people of the Sandwich & Fejee Islands. (s.n.], 1825), by Samuel Patterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lights and shadows of sailor life as exemplified in fifteen years' experience including the more thrilling events of the U. S. exploring expedition, and reminiscences of an eventful life on the " Mountain wave" (Benjamin B. Mussey, 1848), by Joseph G. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and death on the ocean a collection of extraordinary adventures in the form of personal narratives illustrating life on board of merchant vessels and of ships of war, combined with thrilling relations of experiences and of suffering (H. Howe, 1855), by Henry Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cruise of the "Cachalot" round the world after sperm whales (Smith, Elder & Co., 1898), by Frank T. Bullen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cruise of the Cachalot (F.M. Lupton Pub. Co., 1898), by Frank T. Bullen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sea its stirring story of adventure, peril, & heroism (Cassell, 1889), by Frederick Whymper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal du corsaire Jean Doublet de Honfleur lieutenant de frégate sous Louis IV : publié d'après le manuscrit autographe avec introduction, notes et additions (Charavay, 1883), by Jean-François Doublet and Charles Bréard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal du corsaire Jean Doublet de Honfleur lieutenant de frégate sous Louis XIV : publié d'après le manuscrit autographe avec introduction, notes et additions (Perrin, 1887), by Jean-François Doublet and Charles Bréard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty years at sea (Waite, Peirce, 1845), by George Little (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty years at sea (Armstrong & Berry, 1843), by George Little (page images at HathiTrust)
• Etchings of a whaling cruise with notes of a sojourn on the island of Zanzibar, to which is appended a brief history of the whale fishery, its past and present condition (Harper & Bros., 1846), by J. Ross Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Etchings of a whaling cruise with notes of a sojourn on the island of Zanzibar, to which is appended a brief history of the whale fishery, its past and present condition (Harper, 1850), by J. Ross Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from the sea (s.n.], 1911), by Edward Ashley Baird (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• With Christ at sea a religious autobiography (Briggs, 1901), by Frank T. Bullen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fore and aft : a story of actual sea life (Lee and Shepard, 1888), by Robert B. Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ships & ways of other days (J. B. Lippincott, 1913), by E. Keble Chatterton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mirror of the sea (Doubleday, Page, 1916), by Joseph Conrad (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sailor boy's experience (C. Stevens, 1892), by Charles Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography (Little, Brown, and Company, 1882), by R. B. Forbes, John Wilson and Son, Mass.) University Press (Cambridge, and Brown and Company Little (page images at HathiTrust)
• My life at sea : (Brentano's, 1912), by William Caius Crutchley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years before the mast; a personal narrative (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1895), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years before the mast : a personal narrative of life at sea (Worthington Co., 1890), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years before the mast. (Black, 1899), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Windjammers and sea tramps (Walter Scott Pub. Co., 1905), by Walter Runciman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first ten years of a sailor's life at sea (Sampson Low, 1876), by Charles Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• With Christ at sea; a personal record of religious experiences on board ship for fifteen years. (American Tract Society, 1900), by Frank Thomas Bullen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years before the mast; a personal narrative (Houghton, Mifflin, 1883), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Round the Horn before the mast (E. P. Dutton, 1903), by Basil Lubbock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the ocean, or, Twenty years at sea : being the personal adventures of the author (Waite, Peirce, & Co., 1846), by George Little (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scènes de la vie maritime de Rochefort à Cayenne : journal du capitaine de l'Econome (Berger-Levrault et Cie, 1883), by Jules de Crisenoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A home on the deep; or, The mariner's trials on the dark blue sea. (Higgins, Bradley & Dayton, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes of a life on the ocean : being a portion of the experiences of twenty-seven years' service in many parts of the world (Lovell Printing and Pub. Co., 1876), by David Cowans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of a stowaway; a career of adventure. (Dutton, 1921), by C. E. Gouldsbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Greenwich Hospital : a series of naval sketches, descriptive of the life of a man-of-war's man (James Robins ;, 1826), by Old Sailor and George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lights and shadows of sailor life. (B.B. Mussey & co., 1848), by Joseph G. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years before the mast (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1895), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• A master of craft (Methuen, 1900), by W. W. Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "Captains courageous" (Doubleday, Doran, 1897), by Rudyard Kipling (page images at HathiTrust)
• 'Broken stowage.' (Duckworth, 1915), by David William Bone (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A sack of shakings. (C.A. Pearson, 1901), by Frank Thomas Bullen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jack in the forecastle; or, Incidents in the early life of Hawser Martingale [pseud.] (Crosby, Nichols., 1865), by John Sherburne Sleeper (page images at HathiTrust)
• La mar descrita por los mareados. Mas disquisiciones, que comprenden la vida de la galera con interesantes noticias de la chusma; galeones y flotas de Indias; osadía de los navegantes, grandes penalidades, combates y naufragios, plagas, suciedades ... (Impr. de Aribau y ca, 1877), by Cesáreo Fernández Duro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty-five years a sailor (Manhattan Pub. Co., 1870), by Richard J. Cleveland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boy's voyage round the world on board a man-of-war (Addey and Co., 1859), by Lascelles Wraxall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage and venture, or, The Pleasures and perils of a sailor's life. (H. C. Peck & Theo Bliss, 1858) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bob Bartlett, master mariner. (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1929), by Fitzhugh Green (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Two years before the mast : a personal narrative of life at sea (Belford, Clarke & Co., 1888), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sailing the seas; the log of Tom Drake (American Book Co., 1920), by James Baldwin and William Winfred Livengood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of a sea wanderer's life : an autobiography of an old-time seaman who has sailed in almost every capacity before and abaft the mast, in nearly every quarter of the globe, and under the flags of four of the principal maritime nations (A. H. Kellogg, printer, 1887), by George Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Out with the old voyagers (Andrew Melrose ;, 1895), by Horace George Groser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years before the mast, and Twenty-four years after (P. F. Collier, 1909), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mutiny at sea (E.P. Dutton, 1938), by Robert L. Hadfield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "Ships logs and captains' diaries of old Cape Cod" (The Berkeley press], 1937), by Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce and Harry V. Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Autobiography of Capt. Benjamin Webster : to which is added extracts from the diary of Mrs. Benjamin Webster. (The Thurston print, 1900), by Benjamin Webster and Eunice Pratt Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The voyage of the Norman D. : as told by the cabin-boy (A.A. Knopf, 1928), by Barbara Newhall Follett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Knocking around (Dodd, Mead and company, 1927), by Frank H. Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years before the mast and twenty-four years after (P.F. Collier, 1909), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spanish seamen in the New World during the colonial period ([Baltimore, Md., 1922), by Paul S. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pleasures and perils of a sailor's life. (H.C. Peck and T. Bliss, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wooden world dissected in the character of a ship of war as also the characters of all the officers, from the captain to the common sailor. (E. Chappell, 1929), by Edward Ward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sea yarns : or the log of a Cape Cod sea captain (s.n., 1915), by Joshua N. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Scraps from the log book of George Lightcraft : an account of the whale fishery. (Hall & Dickson, 1847), by George Lightcraft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years before the mast. (American Publishers Corp., 1890), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mariner's chronicle, of shipwrecks, fires, famines and other disasters at sea : containing narratives of the most noted calamities and providential deliverances which have resulted from maritime enterprise, both in Europe and America ; together with an account of the whale fishery, sketches of nautical life, steam boat disasters, &c. ; in two volumes ... embellished with sixty engravings. (Jesper Harding, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A gun-room ditty box (Methuen & co., 1905), by George Frederic Stewart Bowles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Mariner's Library or voyager's companion. Containing narratives of the most popular voyages from the time of Columbus to the present day; with accounts of remarkable shipwrecks, naval adventures, the whale-fishery &c ... and illustrated by fine engravings. (C. Gaylord, 1840) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dreams on the ocean : or, a sailor's tract for sailors (printed by Pudney, Hooker & Russell and for sale by T.C. Butler, 1845), by Francis G. Chapard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years before the mast; a personal narrative of life at sea. (W.B.Conkey Co., 1880), by Richard Henry Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• From China to Baghdad (E. G. Pullinger, the Library, 1919), by Marcus MacKenzie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Pedro Gorino : the adventures of a Negro sea-captain in Africa and on the seven seas in his attempts to found an Ethiopian empire; an autobiographical narrative (Houghton Mifflin co., 1929), by Harry Dean and Sterling North (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Cap'n George Fred" himself (Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1928), by George Fred Tilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lights and shadows of sailor life, as exemplified in fifteen years' experience, including the more thrilling events of the U.S. exploring expedition, and reminiscences of an eventful life on the "mountain wave." ... (J. Putnam, 1847), by Joseph G. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years before the mast : a personal narrative of life at sea (Macmillan, 1911), by Richard Henry Dana and Charles Pears (page images at HathiTrust)
• The kedge-anchor; or, young sailor's assistant : appertaining to the practical evolutions of modern seamanship, rigging, knotting, splicing, blocks, purchases, running-rigging, and other miscellaneous matters, applicable to ships of war and others (The Author, 1855), by William N. Brady (page images at HathiTrust)
• Real life at sea : being the reminiscences of a sailor (Walter Scott Publishing, 1913), by William R. Lord (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stipe und Kume; heitere und ernste Erzählungen aus dem österreichisch-ungarischen Matrosenleben. (Verlag der ersten Westböhm. Druckindustrie-A.-G., 1913), by Alexander Ranzenhofer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Master of the moving sea; the life of Captain Peter John Riber Mathieson (J. F. Colton, 1959), by Peter John Riber Mathieson and Gladys Mary Orford Gowlland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The traveller's guide; or, The life of James H. Barnum. (Gt. Barrington [Mass.], 1847), by James Harvey Barnum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two years before the mast (New York : Dodd, Mead, [1946], 1946), by Richard Henry Dana and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The enlistment, training, and organization of crews for our new ships (Naval Historical Foundation, 1972), by A. P. Niblack, United States Naval Institute, and Naval Historical Foundation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ocean parade; being a tale of hurricanes and some women, good and bad (R.M. McBride & Co., 1930), by Fritjoff Michelson and Leon Byrne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Seemannsleben (Wedekind & Co., 1912), by Edmund Friedrich Hanssen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Wonder book of ships ... (Ward, Lock and Co., Ltd., 1926), by Harry Golding (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Deep sea days; the chronicles of a sailor and sea painter. (H.F. & G. Witherby, 1926), by Thomas Madawaska Hemy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Orlogsgaster; Ungdomserindringer (Industri-Trykkeriet (B. Schmidt), 1926), by Richard Jensen and J. G. Oppenheuser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Captain Salvation (Grosset & Dunlap, 1925), by Frederick William Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hurrah for the life of a sailor! : fifty years in the Royal Navy. (Nash, 1910), by William Robert Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Round the Horn before the mast, by Basil Lubbock (Gutenberg ebook)
• By way of Cape Horn : four months in a Yankee clipper, by Paul Eve Stevenson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The cradle of the deep, by Joan Lowell, illust. by Kurt Wiese (Gutenberg ebook)
• A bunch of rope yarns, by Stanton H. King (Gutenberg ebook)
• On Board the "Rocket", by Robert C. Adams (Gutenberg ebook)
• Idylls of the Sea, and Other Marine Sketches, by Frank Thomas Bullen, contrib. by John St. Loe Strachey (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Sack of Shakings, by Frank Thomas Bullen (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Book for the Hammock, by William Clark Russell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ships & Ways of Other Days, by E. Keble Chatterton (Gutenberg ebook)
• My Life at Sea: being a "yarn" loosely spun for the purpose of holding together certain reminiscences of the transition period from sail to steam in the British mercantile marine (1863-1894), by William Caius Crutchley (Gutenberg ebook)
• Torrey's Narrative; or, The Life and Adventures of William Torrey, by William Torrey (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Log of a Sea-Waif: Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life, by Frank Thomas Bullen (Gutenberg ebook)
• To Cuba and Back, by Richard Henry Dana (Gutenberg ebook)
• Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy: A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ein Mann: Des Seefahrers und aufrechten Bürgers Joachim Nettelbeck wundersame Lebensgeschichte von ihm selbst erzählt (in German), by Joachim Nettelbeck (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pelagos.: Nec inter vivos, nec inter mortuos, neither amongst the living, nor amongst the dead. Or, An improvement of the sea, upon the nine nautical verses in the 107. Psalm; wherein is handled I. The several, great, and many hazzards, that mariners do meet withall, in stormy and tempestuous seas. II. Their many, several, miraculous, and stupendious deliverances out of all their helpless, and shiftless distressess [sic]. III. A very full, and delightful description of all those many various, and multitudinous objects, which they behold in their travels (through the Lords Creation) both on sea, in sea, and on land. viz. all sorts and kinds of fish, foul, and beasts, whether wilde, or tame; all sorts of trees, and fruits; all sorts of people, cities, towns, and countries; with many profitable, and useful rules, and instructions for them that use the seas. / By Daniel Pell, preacher of the Word. (London : printed for Livewell Chapman, and are to be sold at the Crown in Popes-head Alley, 1659), by Daniel Pell (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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