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• Lifesaving -- Equipment and supplies
• Lifesaving -- Fiction
• Lifesaving -- Great Britain
• Lifesaving -- Juvenile fiction
• Lifesaving -- North Sea
• Lifesaving -- United States

• Life-saving

• Francis' Metallic Life-Boat Company (New York: W. C. Bryant and Co., 1852), by Francis' Metallic Life-Boat Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life-Boats, Projectiles and Other Means for Saving Life (Boston: W. P. Lunt, 1872), by R. B. Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life-Boats, Projectiles and Other Means for Saving Life (Boston: W. P. Lunt, 1872), by R. B. Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Francis' Metallic Life-Boat Company (New York: W. C. Bryant and Co., 1852), by Francis' Metallic Life-Boat Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Lifeboat: A Tale of Our Coast Heroes, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• Saved by the Lifeboat, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• The Tides of Barnegat, by Francis Hopkinson Smith (Gutenberg text)

• Battles with the Sea: or, Heroes of the Lifeboat and Rocket, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• The Life Savers: A Story of the United States Life-Saving Service (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1899), by James Otis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Lifeboat: A Tale of Our Coast Heroes, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• The Young Trawler: A Story of Life and Death and Rescue on the North Sea, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• Annual Report of the United States Life-Saving Service, by United States Life-Saving Service (partial serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows, by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text)
• Pied Piper (c1942), by Nevil Shute (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Capitaines Courageux: Une Histoire du Banc de Terre-Neuve (French translation of "Captains Courageous"; Paris: Hachette, 1903), by Rudyard Kipling, trans. by Louis Fabulet and Ch. Fountaine-Walker, illust. by Auguste-François-Marie Gorguet (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling (Gutenberg text)
• Meren Urhoja: Kertomus Suurilta Matalikoilta (Finnish translation of "Captains Courageous"; Porvoo: WSOY, 1915), by Rudyard Kipling, trans. by Väinö Jaakkola (Gutenberg text)

• Darry the Life Saver: or, The Heroes of the Coast, by Frank V. Webster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Pat, the Lighthouse Boy (New York: Ward and Drummond, n.d.), by Evelyn Everett-Green (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (New York: F. Warne and Co., 1909), by Beatrix Potter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Copper Princess: A Story of Lake Superior Mines (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1898), by Kirk Munroe, illust. by W. A. Rogers (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The English at the North Pole: Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras, by Jules Verne (Gutenberg text with map)
• The Land of Fire, by Mayne Reid (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Log of the Flying Fish: A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by Gordon Browne
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Mate of the Lily, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• On Board the Esmeralda, by John C. Hutcheson
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Settlers: A Tale of Virginia, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Two Boys and a Fortune, by Matthew White (Gutenberg text)

• ACLS: Advanced Cardiac Life Support Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)

• The Medical Implications of Nuclear War, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.), ed. by Fredric Solomon and Robert Marston (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Dispensing Medical Countermeasures for Public Health Emergencies: Workshop Summary (2008), contrib. by Miriam Davis, Marnina S. Kammersell, and Bruce M. Altevogt (HTML and page images with commentary at NAP)

• Preparing for an Influenza Pandemic: Personal Protective Equipment for Healthcare Workers (2008), ed. by Lewis R. Goldfrank and Catharyn T. Liverman (illustrated HTML and page images with commentary at NAP)

• Emergency Medical Services for Children (1993), ed. by Jane Durch and Kathleen N. Lohr (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Blood, Sweat and Tea (Creative Commons edition, 2006), by Tom Reynolds (text at archive.org)

• The Enormous Room (along the lines of mid-20th-century editions: French passages untranslated; some English expletives still censored; some passages omitted in first edition restored), by E. E. Cummings (HTML at BYU)
• The Enormous Room (along the lines of early editions: some French passages translated; expletives markedly censored, some manuscript passages omitted), by E. E. Cummings (Gutenberg text and HTML)

• Ambulance Work and Nursing: A Handbook on First Aid to the Injured, With a Section on Nursing, Etc. (Chicago: W. T. Keener and Co., ca. 1895) (page images at HathiTrust)
• First Aid: A Book of Ready Reference in Times of Emergency, A Manual of Instruction for Ambulance Students, and a Plain Practical Guide to the Rendering of Help in Case of Accident or Sudden Illness (London and New York: Ward, Lock and Co., ca. 1887), by George Black
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Guide for Emergencies, Containing the Homoeopathic Treatment of Such Diseases As Requir Immediate Attention, and of Such as May be Treated Without the Assistance of a Physician; and Also Containing the Treatment of Cases of Poisoning, and of Every Common Variety of Accidents (third edition; New York: C. T. Hurlburt, 1871), by Henry B. Millard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Medical Handbook, for the Use of Lighthouse Vessels and Stations (revised edition of Stoner's Handbook for the Ship's Medicine Chest; Washington: GPO, 1912), ed. by William J. Pettus, contrib. by George W. Stoner
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google
• Saving Life (Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1910), by A "B. P." Scout (PDF with commentary at scoutscan.com)
• Emergencies (book 2 of the Gulick Hygiene series; Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1909), by Charlotte V. Gulick, ed. by Luther Halsey Gulick
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Handbook for the Ship's Medicine Chest (second edition; Washington: GPO, 1904), by George W. Stoner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Prevention of Disease and Care of the Sick and Injured: Medical Handbook for the Use of Lighthouse Vessels and Stations (Washington: GPO, 1915), by United States Lighthouse Service, ed. by W. G. Stimpson, contrib. by R. M. Woodward (multiple formats at archive.org)

• CPR, AED and First Aid: Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)

• Emergencies (book 2 of the Gulick Hygiene series; Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1909), by Charlotte V. Gulick, ed. by Luther Halsey Gulick
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• An Illustrated System of Bandaging (Selected from Goffres Précis de Bandages) (Richmond, VA: Ayres and Wade, 1864), by Joseph Marie Goffres and Confederate States of America Surgeon-General's Office
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Minor and Operative Surgery, Including Bandaging (sixth edition; Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers and Co., c1905), by Henry R. Wharton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• PALS: Pediatric Advanced Life Support Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)
• An Essay on Suspended Animation (Philadelphia: E. Parker, 1823), by Samuel Colhoun
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Prospect of Immortality, by R. C. W. Ettinger (PDF with commentary at cryonics.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.