Hornblower and the penalty of failure / C.S. Forester
Farewell to the windbags / Oren F. McIntyre
The snowflake and the starfish / Robert Nathan
"Must I go down to the beach again?" / John Skow
Don't envy the lifeguard / Emmett Murphy
All about sailboats / James Thurber
My life in the navy / Norman Rockwell
The Greatest voyage ever made / Samuel Eliot Morison
The perilous voyage of the Mayflower / Thomas J. Fleming
Men against the sea / Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
Around the world alone / Joshua Slocum
"We need help!" radioed the Titanic / Arthur Rostron
Try building a Chinese junk / Richard Halliburton
The rough crossing / F. Scott Fitzgerald
Luxury at sea in 1904 / Rene Bache
Farewell to the Queen Mary / Anne Chamberlain
They are all gone / Walter Lord
Sea sayings: a nautical glossary
Under the black flag / Howard Pyle
The glory of the sea / Jan de Hartog
Under the deck awnings / Jack London
First days at sea / Richard Henry Dana
The first lowering of the Pequod's boats / Herman Melville
The face of the east / Joseph Conrad
Old man, big fish / Ernest Hemingway.