Winter Time Reading

The following list of winter time reading compiled by Richard Cook of the trawler New Moon was recently forwarded to Réanne who was delighted to find Cape Horn included on the list (see number 22).

1. Dreadnought (19th cent. lead-up to WW I, development of battleships) Robert K. Massie
2. Castles of Steel (WW I battleships and battles)
3. The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
4. The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy
5. The Riddle of the Sands (cruisers discover German pre WW II buildup) Erskine Childers
6. The Cruel Sea (true stories - escorting convoys during WWII) Nicholas Monsarrat
7. Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas
8. Alaska James Michener
9. Tales of the South Pacific James Michener
10. Empire of Blue Water StephenTalty
11. Alaska Blues, and others (travel and fishing in SE Alaska) Joe Upton
12. The Curve of Time (early power boat cruising on the BC coast) Wylie Blanchet
13. My Old Man and the Sea (Sailing around South America and Cape Horn) Hays & Hays
14. In the Heart of the Sea (Moby Dick was based on this true story) Nathaniel Philbrick
15. Over the Edge of the World (Magellan's Circumnavigation) Laurence Bergreen
16. Mutiny on the Bounty Charles Nordhoff
17. Endurance: true story of Ernest Shackleton’s Incredible Antarctic Voyage Alfred Lansing (or) South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage Ernest Shackleton
18. The Perfect Storm (sinking of the sword fishing boat Andrea Gail) Sebastian Junger
19. The Hungry Ocean, and others Linda Greenlaw (stories by the real female sword boat captain involved in The Perfect Storm)
20. Grey Seas Under (remarkable rescues on high seas of the north Atlantic) Farley Mowat
21. Adrift (True story of survival raft crossing the Atlantic) Steven Callahan
22. Cape Horn (scary true adventure, sailing the southern ocean) Hemingway-Douglass
23. Cod (the fish that helped inspire discovery and exploration of N. America) Mark Kurlansky
24. Longitude (revolutionary improvement in navigation—invention of the chronometer) Dava Sobel
25. Where the Sea Breaks its Back (discovery of Alaska by Bering and Stellar) Corey Ford
26. Working on the Edge, & others (King Crab fishing in the Bering Sea) Spike Walker
27. Travels in Alaska John Muir
28. Heart of the Raincoast (life on the BC Coast) Morton & Proctor
27. Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson
28. Sitka (historically-based Alaska adventure) Louis L’Amour

—Richard Cook - New Moon (Bounty 257)