Photo: Nino using a sextant
I've also added photos to a few previous posts.
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posted by MHC at 5:13 PM
Monday, February 07, 2005
I've also added photos to a few previous posts.
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posted by Bill
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Course Reading: Required
- John Harland, Seamanship in the Age of Sail (1984)
- Herman Melville, White-Jacket (1892; 1990)
Course Reading: Recommended
Maritime Literature
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)
- Hernan Melville, Moby Dick, or The Whale (1851)
- Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (2001)
or Owen Chase, first mate, The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex (1821; 1963) - Frederick Pease Harlow, The Making of a Sailor, or Sea Life Aboard a Yankee Square Rigger
- Richard Hough, The Last Voyage of Captain James Cook (on which Lt. William Bligh earned his captaincy of the HMAV Bounty)
- W.H. Bunting, Sea Struck (2004)
- Caroline Alexander, The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (2003)
- Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall, The Bounty Trilogy (Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, Pitcairn's Island) (1932, 1934, 1936
- Patrick M. Royce, Royce's Sailing Illustrated (Vol. 1) (2004)
- Elbert S. Mahoney & Charles Frederick Chapman, Chapman's Piloting, Seamanship and Boat Handling (63d ed.)
- John Rousmaniere, The Annapolis Book of Seamanship (1983)
- John Harland, Seamanship in the Age of Sail (1985)
- Darcey Lever, The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor: or A Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship (1819; Dover edition 1998)
- George Biddlescombe, The Art of Rigging (1848; Dover edition 1990)
- Carl Chase, An Introduction to Nautical Science (1991)
- Nathaniel Bowditch, The American Practical Navigator (1802; 2002)
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