External links: Books and Book Shops

• General
• Antiquarian and other Book Shops
• Advertised Books
• Electronic Books
• Journals

• Ancre, Paris, France. Publisher of the books by Jean Boudriot on the ships of the 18th century French Navy. [In French]
• Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., Nautical Publishers, Glasgow, Scotland.
• C.B. Marinlitteratur, Falkenberg, Sweden. [In Swedish and English]
• Conway Maritime Press, London, England.
• Databoat, boat plans and marine related books.
• Exeter Maritime Studies, published by University of Exeter Press.
• The C.S Forester Society. Horatio Hornblower, the British Naval Hero of the Napoleon War, was created by C.S. Forester.
• The Hanson Collection of the Cruising Association and the University Library of Cambridge.
• History and Archaeology of the Ship, a bibliography.
• The Information Seaway, A resource Center for Nautical Research and Shipmodelling from the publishers of Ships in Scale.
• The Library of Mario Witt, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 1996-10-24.
• Marine and Maritime Studies. Online books from the National Academy Press, the publisher for the National Academy of Sciences, the National Research Council, and the Institute of Medicine.
• Nautical Bookshelf
• Nautical Fiction List [New].
• Nautical Nonfiction Adventure Booklist.
• Nautisk Forlag A/S, Oslo, Norway.
• Navy Public Affairs Library, USA.
• The Patrick O'Brian FAQ.
• The Patrick O'Brian Newsletter from W.W. Norton & Company.
• Portsmouth Marine Society Book Catalog.
• The Searoom Page. How to subscribe to the Searoom-L discussion list. A list for those interest in the novels by Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester. Otherwise very little here.
• Studies in Nautical Archaeology from Texas A&M University Press.
• US Naval Institute, Annapolis, MD, USA. With the Naval Institute Press catalogue of books. The USNI also publishes the Naval History Magazine and the Proceedings of the USNI.

• Maritime Heritage Books from AquaStore.
• The Armchair Sailor, Destin, FL, USA. Although the shop has a catalogue of more than 1500 nautical titles and 7000 on the shelves, there is very little of interest at their web-site [1995-09-01].
• The Boat Books Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand, has books on Boating, New Zealand, Nautical, Marine, Charts, Software, Cruising, Yachting, Navigation, Travel, Sailing.
• Blue Peter Books, St. Andrews, NB, Canada.
• Cavendish Rare Books, Charlston, SC, USA. Covers: Voyages & Travel; Maritime History; Polar Exploration; etc. [1995-12-16: Was not able to connect]
• Collectio Navalis, Schiffsminiaturen und Antiquarische Bücher.
• Columbia Trading Company, Nautical Books and Artifacts.
• Edward J. Lefkowicz, Inc., Providence, RI, USA. Specialises in rare and antiquarian books and manuscripts relating to the sea and its islands, and to nautical sicience, including, exploration and discovery by sea, sea charts, naval history, navigation, naval architecture, seamanship, whaling history, yachting, and merchantile shipping.
• The entire Fernhurst Books catalog.
• G.C. Robbins Naval Book Specialists, Calais, ME, USA.
• Greyhavens Books, Redwood City, CA, USA, offers unusual antiquarian non-fiction, including 19th century travel and exploration; military, naval and diplomatic history; illustrated books; and graphic and decorative art.
• Jean-Louis Boglio, Maritime & French Pacific Books, Currumbin, Queensland, Australia. Online catalogues.
• Pier Books Inc., Piermont, NY, USA. Books for Shipmodel Builders and those interested in the "Evolution of the Ship".
• PRA Antikvariat, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Sailworthy Books.
• Ten Pound Island Book Company, USA. Antiquarian books on Maritime History, Yachting, Whaling, U.S. Costal History, and New England History.
• J. Tuttle Maritime Books, USA.
• Warsash Nautical Bookshop, Great Britain.
• Maritime Catalogue, Woodland Park Bookstore , Lexington, KY, USA.

• Fundamentals of Sailing, Cruising & Racing by Stephen Colgate. March 1996. Publisher's blurb.
• Men-of-War. Life in Nelson's Navy by Patrick O'Brian. Publisher's blurb.
• History Through Paper Windows. Diligently Seeking Susan, an article by Catherine Petroski from the Duke Magazine, which is based on the diary of Susan Hathorn, an sea-captain's wife of the 1850s.
• The Eyes of the Fleet. A Popular History of Frigates and Frigate Captains 1793-1815 by Anthony Price. January 1996. Publisher's blurb.
• Knots and Lines Illustrated by Paul Snyder.
• Explore the Coast of Devon by Paul Wreyford. Includes descriptions of the most famous shipwrecks on the coast of Devon.

• Causes of the reduction of American tonnage and the decline of navigation interests.
  Govt. print. off., Washington, 1870. 318 pp. Committee on causes of reduction of American tonnage.
• Cruise of school-ship "Mercury" in tropical Atlantic Ocean. 1870-1871. The New York printing company, New York, 1871.
• Proceedings of a meeting, and report of a committee of the citizens of Cleveland, in relation to steamboat disasters on the western lakes. Steam press of Harris, Fairbanks & co., Cleveland, OH, 1850.
• Report of the Naval committee to the House of representatives, August, 1850, in favor of the establishment of a line of mail steamships to the western coast of Africa, and thence via the Mediterranean to London; designed to promote the emigration of free persons of color from the United States ; with an appendix added by the American Colonization Society. Printed by Gideon and co., Washington, 1850.
• Views on the free navigation of the St. Lawrence, reported by Mr. Buel, to accompany joint resolution on the same subject from the Committee on foreign affairs. In the House of representatives, May 2, 1850. Printed at Union office, Washington, 1850
• Don Berry: Magic Harbor, 1995. Six years at the Puget Sound.
• Arthur J. Binning: Survivor, 1994. The German WW2 Submarine U-188.
• Joseph Conrad:
  • Lord Jim, 1900.
  • The Secret Sharer, 1910. Alt.
  • Nigger of the Narcissus, 1897.
• Richard Henry Dana: Two Years Before The Mast, 1845. [905 kB]
• H. W. Dickinson: Robert Fulton. Engineer and Artist. London, 1913.
• Jack London: The Sea-Wolf.
• Alfred Thayer Mahan: Admiral Farragut, 1892.
• M.F. Maury: The Physical Geography of the Sea, and its Meteorology, 1855.
  Harper & Brothers, New York, 1855 (1st). 8vo, xxiv, 274 pp, ill., 8 engraved plates.
• Herman Melville:
  • Billy Budd, Foretopman, 19
  • Moby Dick
    • in selected Excerpts by the Herman Melville Internet Society,
    • in individual chapters
    • or the complete text
    • alternative [1,2 MB]
    • Wiretap
• Patrick O'Brian The Commodore. Chapter One.
• Warington Smyth: Mast and Sail in Europe and Asia. John Murray, London, 1906.
• Henri Stuckle: Interoceanic canals, an essay on the question of location for a ship canal across the American continent. D. Van Nostrand, New York, 1870.
• Samuel Taylor: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
• Robert H. Thurston: Robert Fulton. His Life and its Results. Dodd, Mead, and Company Publishers, New York, 1891.
• Thompson Westcott: The Life of John Fitch. The Inventor of the Steamboat, 1857.

• The American Neptune, a quarterly journal on maritime history published by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA.
• By-The_Sea, an on-line journal on boats and boating for boat builders and boaters concentrating on the Norteastern USA.
• Chasse-Mareé, Histoire et Ethnologie Maritime.
• International Journal of Nautical Archaeology.
• International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, Tabels of Content.
• Marinarkeologisk Tidskrift [In Swedish]
• Model Boats.
• Sea History, a quarterly journal published by the National Maritime Historical Society, Peekskill, NY, USA.
• Ships in Scale, a bi-monthly journal on ship modelling published by Seaways.

Copyright © 1996 Lars Bruzelius.