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Joshua Slocum - Sailing Alone Around the World.
Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim, The Morror of the Sea, Nostromo, Heart of Darkness, An Outcast of the Islands and many other works.
R E Dana - Two Years Before the Mast
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Books - see also our travel books page at Planetnomad.org

A boat without books aboard looks like a perfect cellar without the wine. Books provide a perfect medicine for ignorance, can teach most of what one needs to know about sailing, can cure allergies for the slow passing of time during crossings, can alleviate the weight of exceedingly cumbersome discomforts and fellow crews.
So the cases are two: either you choose a boat with books aplenty aboard, or you bring your own. If you need some advice, we are constantly updating a comprehensive list for books about sailing and books that are particularly effective in keeping the morale high. Trust us, they are thoroughly tested.

Our special top ten of books about sailing and the Sea

1. The Eight Sailing and Exploration Books, H.W. Tilman.
2. Sailing Alone Around the World, J. Slocum
3. Men's lives, P. Matthiessen
4. The Mirror of the Sea, J. Conrad
5. Wrinkles in Practical Navigation, STS Lecky
6. Heavy Weather Sailing, W. Adlard Coles
7. Ocean Passages for the World, UK Admiralty
8. Glenan's Sailing Course
9. The Long Route, B. Moitessier
10. On Sailing the Sea, H. Belloc

Books one must have aboard - prozac series
1. Scoop, E. Waugh
2. Catch 22, Joseph Heller
3. The Road to Oxiana, R. Byron (not G. Byron!)
4. Any PG Wodehouse collection, the Jeeves Omnibus especially
5. When the Going Was Good, E. Waugh (again...)
6. A short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
7. The Best of Outside Magazine, VVAA
8. My Uncle Osvald,
9. Under the Glacier, Halldor Laxness
10. The Way of the World, Nicolas Bouvier

 
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