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Pilot guides -- Great Lakes (North America)

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• Great Lakes (North America)

• Thompson's Coast Pilot: For the Upper Lakes, on Both Shores from Chicago to Buffalo, Green Bay, Georgian Bay, and Lake Superior; Including the Rivers Detroit, St. Clair and Ste. Marie, with the Courses and Distances on Lake Ontario, and Other Information Relative Thereto (5th edition, 1869), by Thomas S. Thompson (page images at hhpl.on.ca)

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• The Colombian Navigator: or, Sailing Directory for the American Coasts and the West-Indies (2 volumes; London: Printed for R. H. Laurie, 1823-1824), by John Purdy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sailing Directions for the Coasts, Harbours, and Islands of North America, from Cape Canso to Philadelphia: Comprehending the Coasts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Within the Bay of Fundy, Also the Coast of the United States from Passamaquody Bay to Philadelphia (London: C. Wilson, 1856), by J. W. Norie and J. S. Hobbs
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Illustrated Coast Pilot, With Sailing Directions: The Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States, Including Bays and Harbors (New York: Rudder Pub. Co., c1902), by N. L. Stebbins (multiple formats at Google)
• Sailing Directions for the Principal Ports on the East Coast of the United States of America (third edition; London: Printed for the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, and sold by J.D. Potter, 1882) (page images at Google)

• Navigation aux Côtes du Brésil (in French; Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1821), by Albin-Reine Roussin
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Series of Charts, With Sailing Directions, Embracing Surveys of the Farallones, Entrance to the Bay of San Francisco, Bays of San Francisco and San Pablo..., by Cadwalader Ringgold (page images at Mystic Seaport)

• Handbook for the Guidance of Shipmasters on the Ichang-Chungking Section of the Yangtze River (Shanghai: Statistical Dept. of the Inspectorate General of Customs, 1920), by S. Cornell Plant (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Buccaneer's Atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea Waggoner (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Basil Ringrose, ed. by Derek Howse and Norman Joseph William Thrower (HTML at UC Press)

• A Buccaneer's Atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea Waggoner (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Basil Ringrose, ed. by Derek Howse and Norman Joseph William Thrower (HTML at UC Press)

• Notices of the Western Coast of the United States (revised edition; Washington: Printed by Gideon and Co., 1851), by United States Coast Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Series of Charts, With Sailing Directions, Embracing Surveys of the Farallones, Entrance to the Bay of San Francisco, Bays of San Francisco and San Pablo..., by Cadwalader Ringgold (page images at Mystic Seaport)

• The American Pharos, or Light-House Guide (Washington: Thompson and Homans, 1832), by Robert Mills (multiple formats at Google)

• Navigation aux Côtes du Brésil (in French; Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1821), by Albin-Reine Roussin
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• United States Coast Pilot (current electronic edition, 9 volumes), by United States National Ocean Service (PDF files with commentary at noaa.gov)

• The Colombian Navigator: or, Sailing Directory for the American Coasts and the West-Indies (2 volumes; London: Printed for R. H. Laurie, 1823-1824), by John Purdy (page images at HathiTrust)

• At Home and Abroad: or, Things and Thoughts in America and Europe (New York: The Tribune association, 1869), by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820, Resumed and Completed, by the Discovery of its Origin in Itasca Lake (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1855), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Report of the Survey of the North and Northwest Lakes, by George Gordon Meade (page images at MOA)
• By Water to the Columbian Exposition, by Johanna Sara Wisthaler (Gutenberg text)
• Narrative Journal of Travels Through the Northwestern Regions of the United States (Albany: E. and E. Hosford, 1821), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sailing on the Great Lakes and Rivers of America, by John Disturnell (page images at MOA)

• A Description of the English Province of Carolana, by the Spaniards Call'd Florida, and by the French La Louisiane; as Also of the Great and Famous River Meschacebe or Missisipi, The Five Vast Navigable Lakes of Fresh Water, and the Parts Adjacent (London: Printed for B. Cowse, 1722), by Daniel Coxe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Summer in the Wilderness, Embracing a Canoe Voyage Up the Mississippi and Around Lake Superior, by Charles Lanman (multiple formats at loc.gov)
• Sailing on the Great Lakes and Rivers of America, by John Disturnell (page images at MOA)

• A True Description of the Lake Superior Country (New York: W. H. Graham, 1848), by John R. St. John (page images at loc.gov)

• Relation of the Discoveries and Voyages of Cavelier de La Salle from 1679 to 1681: The Official Narrative, by Robert Cavelier La Salle, trans. by Melville Best Anderson (JavaScript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org)

• The Courage of Captain Plum, by James Oliver Curwood, illust. by Frank E. Schoonover (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Indian Drum (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1917), by William MacHarg and Edwin Balmer, illust. by Wladyslaw T. Benda (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Ghost in the Tower: An Episode in Jacobia (1921), by Earl H. Reed (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches (New York: Harper and Bros., c1875), by Constance Fenimore Woolson (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• When Lighthouses Are Dark: A Story of a Lake Superior Island (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1921), by Ethel C. Brill (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Standard Guide: Mackinac Island and Northern Lake Resorts (1899) (page images at loc.gov)

• Freshwater: A History and a Narrative of the Great Lakes (New York: Macmillan, 1931), by George A. Cuthbertson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Queen of the Lakes (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994), by Mark L. Thompson (multiple formats at wayne.edu)

• Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1991), by Mark L. Thompson (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Queen of the Lakes (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994), by Mark L. Thompson (multiple formats at wayne.edu)

• Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1991), by Mark L. Thompson (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Fenn Masterson's Discovery: or, The Darewell Chums on a Cruise (Cleveland: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1909), by Allen Chapman (Gutenberg text)
• Roy Gilbert's Search: A Tale of the Great Lakes (New York: A. L. Burt, c1889), by William P. Chipman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elsie's Journey on Inland Waters (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1895), by Martha Finley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Along the Bowstring or South Shore of Lake Superior, by Julian Ralph (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Lake Superior Guide, by John Disturnell (page images at MOA)
• Lights and Shades of Missionary Life: Containing Travels, Sketches, Incidents and Missionary Efforts, During Nine Years Spent in the Region of Lake Superior (Cincinnati: Printed at the Westin Book Concern for the author, 1860), by John H. Pitezel (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lights and Shades of Missionary Life: Containing Travels, Sketches, Incidents and Missionary Efforts, During Nine Years Spent in the Region of Lake Superior (Cincinnati: Printed at the Western Book Concern for the author, 1861), by John H. Pitezel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Wisconsin and Its Resources, by James S. Ritchie (page images at MOA)

• Indian Names of Places Near the Great Lakes (1888), by Dwight H. Kelton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Sixty Years of Shipbuilding: Paper Presented at October 5, 1956 Meeting, Great Lakes Section, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (ca. 1956), by Dwight True, ed. by Harry Benford (page images at HathiTrust)

• Freshwater: A History and a Narrative of the Great Lakes (New York: Macmillan, 1931), by George A. Cuthbertson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Lake Erie Sidewheel Steamers of Frank E. Kirby (Detroit: Great Lakes Model Shipbuilders' Guild, 1955), by Gordon Pritchard Bugbee (page images at HathiTrust)

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