Recommended Reading

[bridma]

I have just finished reading "Adventures in Solitude" by Grant Lawrence. This is an awesome book about Desolation Sound. If you live in the PNW, this is a 'must have' book for the boat. If you do not live in the PNW, read the book then hitch up the trailer.
Martin.

 

[hambone]

I will give it a look see.. :thup

H :wink:

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

I have just finished reading "Adventures in Solitude" by Grant Lawrence. This is an awesome book about Desolation Sound. If you live in the PNW, this is a 'must have' book for the boat. If you do not live in the PNW, read the book then hitch up the trailer.
Martin.

Martin, I hope it is good. It's going to be my first download on Kindle...

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

I have just finished reading "Adventures in Solitude" by Grant Lawrence. This is an awesome book about Desolation Sound. If you live in the PNW, this is a 'must have' book for the boat. If you do not live in the PNW, read the book then hitch up the trailer.
Martin.

Martin, I hope it is good. It's going to be my first download on Kindle...

I am into the book, and it's good!!!! How about some more recommendations.

 

[bridma]

The best 'classic' book is "The Curve of Time". There is also a follow up book called "Beyond the Curve of Time". Both are a excellent read.
Martin.

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

The best 'classic' book is "The Curve of Time". There is also a follow up book called "Beyond the Curve of Time". Both are a excellent read.
Martin.

I have "The Curve of Time", but had not heard of the follow up. Will have to check that out.

If you want a fun historic novel, based on some truth, try "The Sea Runners" by Ivan Doig. Another Doig book is "Winter Brothers", about James Swan who was an early settler around Port Townsend. Swan's diaries are in the local county museum.

Thanks for the tip. I will check out the "Beyond"

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Great I enjoy this topic !!!!!!!!! ............ 8) :? :lol: :roll: :wink: :wink :smilep :teeth :smile :smiled :thup

Any recommendations from your way???

 

[RichardAK]

I concur in "The Sea Runners" by Ivan Doig.

A really enjoyable read is the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin series about the British Navy in the Napoleonic era. It's best to read the series in the order in which they were written. O'Brian does a great job in developing the characters. Also, it is a good idea to have a glossary of nautical terms from that era. A good one is "A Sea of Words" by Dean King. Check out the readers reviews on Amazon.com.

 

[ferret30]

Great I enjoy this topic !!!!!!!!! ............ 8) :? :lol: :roll: :wink: :wink :smilep :teeth :smile :smiled :thup

Any recommendations from your way???

I think it's spam. Nothing specific to do with the topic and a link in the signature. There were 2 like that today.

 

[dotnmarty]

I'm not much of a reader, but I was impressed with Tim Egan's "The Good Rain". A classic must read for anyone who wants to know where today's Pacific Northwest came from.

 

[Will-C]

Anything by Linda Greenlaw but The Hungry Ocean and All Fisherman are Liars are two of my favorites of her books.
D.D.

 

[NewMoon]

It's January - time to get into a good book by the warm fire! Here's a raft of vaguely boating-related books I liked:

HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, POLITICS, WAR, HISTORICAL NOVELS

Dreadnought (19th cent. lead-up to WW I, development of battleships) Robert Massie
also: Castles of Steel (WW I battleships and battles)

The Caine Mutiny Herman Wouk

The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy

The Riddle of the Sands (cruisers discover German pre WW I buildup) Erskine Childers

The Cruel Sea (true stories - escorting convoys during WW II) Nicholas Monsarrat

Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas

Sea of Glory Nathaniel Philbrick.

Alaska James Michener
also: Tales of the South Pacific

Empire of Blue Water Stephen Talty

Jack Aubrey series (Master and Commander, etc) Patrick O’Brian
also: The Golden Ocean & The Unknown Shore (prior to Aubrey series)

Cochrane (the real captain who was the model for Jack Aubrey) Robert Harvey



BOATS, CRUISING, FISHING, EXPLORATION, the SEA

The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway

The Sea Wolf Jack London

Alaska Blues, and others (travel and fishing in SE Alaska) Joe Upton

The Curve of Time (early small boat cruising on the BC coast) Wylie Blanchet

My Old Man and the Sea (Sailing around South America and Cape Horn) Hays & Hays

In the Heart of the Sea (Moby Dick was based on this true story) Nathaniel Philbrick

Over the Edge of the World (Magellan's Circumnavigation) Laurence Bergreen

Mutiny on the Bounty Charles Nordhoff

Endurance true story - Ernest Shackleton’s Incredible Antarctic Voyage Alfred Lansing

South: Memoir of the Endurance Voyage Ernest Shackleton

The Perfect Storm (sinking of the sword fishing boat Andrea Gail) Sebastian Junger

The Hungry Ocean (and others) Linda Greenlaw
(stories by the real female sword boat captain involved in the Perfect Storm)

Blues John Hersey

River Horse William Least Heat Moon

Grey Seas Under (Remarkable rescues on high seas of the north Atlantic) Farley Mowat
also: The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float

Adrift (True story of survival raft crossing the Atlantic) Steven Callahan

Cape Horn (scary true adventure, sailing the southern ocean) Hemingway-Douglass

Cod (the fish that helped inspire discovery and exploration of N. America) Mark Kurlansky

Longitude (revolutionary improvement in navigation - invention of Chronometer) Dava Sobel

Where the Sea Breaks its Back (discovery of Alaska by Bering and Stellar) Corey Ford

Working on the Edge, & others (King Crab fishing in the Bering Sea) Spike Walker

Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum

Travels in Alaska John Muir

Heart of the Raincoast (life on the BC Coast) Morton & Proctor

Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson

Sitka (historically-based Alaska adventure) Louis L’Amour

The Blue Bear Lynn Schooler

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

I concur in "The Sea Runners" by Ivan Doig.

A really enjoyable read is the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin series about the British Navy in the Napoleonic era. It's best to read the series in the order in which they were written. O'Brian does a great job in developing the characters. Also, it is a good idea to have a glossary of nautical terms from that era. A good one is "A Sea of Words" by Dean King. Check out the readers reviews on Amazon.com.

Richard, I have the entire set of O'Brian, and have read through them at least 4 or 5 times. We don't have TV at the beach, so that it our entertainment. Another good series is W. E. B. Griffin's "The Marines". Ten books and although it is fiction, based on actual events of WW 2 and Korea.

I will check out the King book.

 

[rjmcnabb]

Hi New Moon,
Great list. It will keep us entertained for years.
I totally second The Boat That Wouldn't Float, and Riddle of the Sands is a terrific read!
Rod

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Hi New Moon,
Great list. It will keep us entertained for years.
I totally second The Boat That Wouldn't Float, and Riddle of the Sands is a terrific read!
Rod

Almost all of the Farley Mowat books are great. BTW, the rumor about Newfoundland Screech is true...

If you want to read a good insight into what the Canadians went through in WW2, read Mowat's "And No Birds Sang" ( may not be exact on the title).

 

[mcc272]

I downloaded Adventures In Solitude and am reading it. It is indeed a good read.

In Farley Mowatt's work, I am particularly fond of Grey Seas Under about a steam powered salvage tug working the NW Atlantic pre and during WWII. What a book, boat, and crew.

Finally, while I loved The Curve of Time (Blanchet), Upcoast Summers and Seven-Knot Summers (Beth Hill) my absolute favorite of that type is Three's a Crew by Kathrene Pinkerton about a family of 3 (Mom, Dad and a young girl) cruising the NW coast. Pinkerton's book was the first (1940) followed by Blanchet (1968) and then by Hill (1985). Together, many people consider them to be a trilogy. Read closely, you will find that the Pinks (as they were know) crossed paths with Blanchet while out cruising.

I have read the trilogy again and again and they are a good part of what is inspriing me to cruise that area once I am retired and can do so.

 

[Chuckpacific]

Sailing Back in Time: A Nostalgic Voyage on Canada's West Coast - Maria Coffey (Author)

 

[Bess-C]

A couple of my favorites of the earlier days on the B.C. coast are Spilsbury's Coast and the Accidental Airline by Howard White and Jim Spilsbury. Jim Spilsbury had one of the first radio sales and service businesses on the B.C. coast. He ran it out of his boat and visited all the remote areas for his business. He was a great storyteller and met a lot of fascinating people.

In his second book Accidental Airline he describes the aviation business right after WWII. It's a strange and sometimes funny story about how he started an airline. Just describing these books makes me want to read them again.
Lyle

 

[bridma]

Ooops, it is not "Beyond the Curve of Time". It is "Following the Curve of Time", by Cathy Converse.
This book brings us up to date with Capi Blanchet, her life, her children, after she stopped cruising Desolation Sound and the Broughtons in the Caprice.

Martin.

 

[Golerud]

"Rowing To Latitude, Journeys Along the Arctics Edge" by Jill Fredston is a fun and interesting book.