Good Reads - List by Author

AUTHOR
        TITLE

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Alexander , Caroline
        Bounty - The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

Alexander , Caroline
        Bounty - The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (on tape)

Allan , Dick
        Cry of the Heron

Altounyan , Taqui
        Chimes from a Wooden Bell - A hundred years in the life of a Euro-Armenian

Antier , Jean-Jacques
        Charles de Foucauld - Charles of Jesus

Applebome , Peter
        Scouts honor - a fathers unlikely foray into the woods

Baden-Powell, Olave St. Clair (Soames)
        Window on my Heart - The autobiography of Olave, Lady Baden-Powell, G.B.E. as told to Mary Drewery

Bowden, Keith
          The Tecate Journals - seventy days on the Rio Grande

Brady, Catherine
        Elizabeth Blackburn and the story of telomeres - deciphering the ends of DNA

Brower , Kenneth
        Song for Satawal

Brown Jr. , Tom
        Case files of the Tracker - true stories from Americas greatest outdoorsman

Brown Jr. ,Tom
        Tracker - The

Buehler , George
        Buehlers Backyard Boatbuilding

Burrough, Brian
        The Big Rich - The rise and fall of the greatest Texas oil fortunes

Chadwick, David
        Crooked cucumber : the life and Zen teaching of Shunryu Suzuki

Coffey , Maria and Dag Goering
        Sailing back in Time A nostalgic voyage on Canadas west coast

Conway , John E.
        Catboat Summers

Crawford , Stanley
        Mayordomo - chronicle of an acequia in northern New Mexico

Cronkite, Walter
          Around America - a tour of our magnificent coastline

Crowley, Tony
          The Lo-Tech Navigator

Cussler, Clive with Dirk Cussler
        Treasure of Kahn ( audio book on CD)

Dalton , Anthony
        Wayward Sailor - in search of the real Tristan Jones

Davidson, Diane Mott
        Tough Cookie

Delaney , Frank
        Simple Courage - A true story of peril on the sea

Dillard , Annie
        Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Dobie , J. Frank
        Coronado s children - tales of lost mines and buried treasures of the SW

Dobie , J. Frank
        Longhorns

Dunnet, Dorothy
        from the -house of Niccolo - series:           Niccolo Rising (1986)
          Spring of the Ram (1987)
          Race of Scorpions (1989)
          Scales of Gold (1991)

Druett, Joan
        Rough Medicine - Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail

Druett , Joan
        She Captains - Heroines and hellions of the Sea

Duxbury, Ken
        Lugworm Island Hopping

Duxbury, Ken
        Lugworm Homeward Bound - Greece to England in an Open Dingy

Gerr, Dave
        Nature of Boats

Gerr, Dave
        Elements of Boat Strength - for Builders. Designers and Owners

Gilpin, Vincent
        Good Little Ship - The

Gladwin, Thomas
          East is a Big Bird - Navigation and Logic on Puluwat Atoll

Guareschi, Giovanni
          Don Camillo and his flock

Guareschi, Giovanni
          Comrade Don Camillo

Guareschi, Giovanni
          The Family Guareschi - Chronciles of the Past and Present.

Guareschi, Giovanni
          Little world of Don Camillo

Guareschi, Giovanni
          Don Camillos dilemma

Guareschi, Giovanni
          Don Camillo Meets the Flower Children (Don Camillo Meets the Hells Angels - UK title)

Guareschi, Giovanni
          Don Camillo takes the Devil by the Tail

Guareschi, Giovanni
          The House that Nino Built

Guareschi, Giovanni
          Duncan and Clotilda - an extravaganza with a long digression

Guareschi, Giovanni
          My Home Sweet Home - translation of Corrierno delle Famiglie

Hansen, Gunnar
        Islands at the Edge of Time - A Journey to Americas Barrier Islands

Hardymet, Christina
        Captain Flint's Trunk

Harrigan, Stephen
        Aransas

Hayes, David and Daniel
        My old man and the sea a father and son sail around Cape Horn

Herge ... pen name of ... Georges Prosper Remi (b 1907 – d 1983)
        The Adventures of Tintin - The Black Island
        The Adventures of Tintin - The Blue Lotus
        The Adventures of Tintin - The Broken Ear
        The Adventures of Tintin - Cigars of the Pharaoh
        The Adventures of Tintin - The Crab with the Golden Claws
        The Adventures of Tintin - Destination Moon
        The Adventures of Tintin - Explorers op the Moon
        The Adventures of Tintin - King Ottokars Sceptre
        The Adventures of Tintin - The Secret of the Unicorn
        The Adventures of Tintin - The Seven Crystal Balls
        The Adventures of Tintin - The Shooting Star
        The Adventures of Tintin - Tintin in America
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Herreshoff, L. Francis
        Complete Cruiser - the art practice and enjoyment of boating

Hillerman, Tony
      the Navajo Tribal Police stories:
            The Blessing Way (1970) ISBN 0-06-011896-2
            Dance Hall of the Dead (1973) ISBN 0-06-011898-9
            Listening Woman (1978) ISBN 0-06-011901-2
            People Of Darkness (1980) ISBN 0-06-011907-1
            The Dark Wind (1982) ISBN 0-06-014936-1
            Ghostway (1984) ISBN 0-06-015396-2
            Skinwalkers (1986) ISBN 0-06-015695-3
            A Thief of Time (1988) ISBN 0-06-015938-3
            Talking God (1989) ISBN 0-06-016118-3
            Coyote Waits (1990) ISBN 0-06-016370-4
            Sacred Clowns (1993) ISBN 0-06-016767-X
            Fallen Man (1996) ISBN 0-06-017773-X
            First Eagle 1998) ISBN 0-06-017581-8
            Hunting Badger (1999) ISBN 0-06-019289-5
            The Wailing Wind (2002) ISBN 0-06-019444-8
            The Sinister Pig (2003) ISBN 0-06-019443-X
            Skeleton Man (2004) ISBN 0-06-056344-3
            The Shape Shifter (2006) ISBN 978-0-06-056345-5
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Not set in Navajo reservation
            Fly on the Wall (1971) ISBN 0-06-011897-0
            Finding Moon (1995) ISBN 0-06-017772-1
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Non-fiction
            Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir by Tony Hillerman (2001) ISBN 0-06-019445-6
            The Great Taos Bank Robbery and other tales ... (1973) ISBN 0-8263-0306-4

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Horwitz , Tony
        Blue Latitudes - Boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before

Hughes , Lee
        Biggest Boat I could Afford - sailing up the U.S. Coast in a dingy

Hunter, John A.
        Hunter

Iacocca, Lee
          Iacocca an autobiography

Iacocca, Lee
          Where have all the leaders gone ?

Jeal , Tim
        Baden-Powell - Founder of the Boy Scouts

Jenkins , Peter
        Along the Edge of America

Jones, Dilwyn
        Boats - Egyptian Bookshelf (series)

Jones , Tristan
        To venture further

Jones , Tristan
        Seagulls in my soup

Jones , Tristan
        Encounters of a Wayward Sailor

Jones , Tristan
        Star to Steer Her by (same as Outward Leg)

Jones , Tristan
        Outward Leg (sailing a trimaran from San Diego USA to London UK

Jones , Tristan
        Heart of Oak (certainly fiction as far as Jones participation)

Jones , Tristan
        Steady Trade (considered as fiction)

Jones , Tristan
        Aka (written as fiction)

Jones , Tristan
        Somewheres East of Suez

Jones , Tristan
        Improbable voyage

Jones , Tristan
        Adrift

Jones , Tristan
        Incredible Voyage

Jones , Tristan
        Saga of a Wayward Sailor

Jones , Tristan
        Ice (considered totally fiction)

Jones , Tristan
        Dutch Treat (considered fiction)

Jones, Tristan
        One hand for yourself - One for the Ship - The essential Tristan Jones

Kendall-Price , Claire
        In the footsteps of the Swallows and Amazons - 19 illustrated walks

Kent , George O.
        Bismark and his times

Kent, Rockwell
        Voyaging - Southward from the Strait of Magellan

King , Dean
        Skeletons on the Zahara - A True Story of Survival

King, Paul
        The Complete Yurt Handbook

Ladd , Stephen
        Three Years in a Twelve-Foot Boat

Lang, Gregory E.
        Why a Son needs a Dad

Langewiesche, William
        Sahara Unveiled - A journey across the desert

Langford, Richard E.
        White Squall - the Last Voyage of Albatross

Lawrence , T. E. (1888 - 1935)
        Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Le Tourmelin , Jacques-Yves
        Kurun around the world

Leighton , Kenneth M.
        Oar and Sail - an odyssey of the west coast

Lib , Purves -H.W. Tilman
        Adventures under sail - selected writings of H.W. Tilman

Mackinnon , A. J.
        Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow - a Mirror odyssey from N. Wales to Black S

Manchester , William
        World lit only by fire -The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of

Mann, Zane B.
          Fair Winds and Far Places

Moussaieff Masson, Jeffrey
        Slipping into Paradise - why I live in New Zealand

McAlister , Wayne H.
        Life on Matagorda Island

Mohlke , Matthew
        Floating Down the Country - a 79 day adventure down the Mississippi ..to New Orleans

Moitessier, Bernard
        Tamata and the alliance

Moitessier , Bernard
        First voyage of the Joshua

Moitessier , Bernard
        Sea Vagabonds world - boats and sails distant shores islands and lagoons

Moorhouse , Geoffrey
        Fearful Void

Morrison, Samuel Eliot
        John Paul Jones - a sailors biography

Morrison, Samuel Eliot
        Admiral of the ocean sea - a life of Christopher Columbus

Mowat, Farley
        Black Joke, the

Mowat , Farley
        Serpants Coil - A stunning true epic of storm and salvage in Mid Atlantic

Mowat , Farley
        Boat who wouldnt float

Mowat , Farley
        Westviking - the Ancient Norse in Greenland and North America

Nichols , John
        Milagro Beanfield War

Niven , David
          Bring on the Empty Horses

OHanlon , Redmond
        In Trouble Again - A journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon
        No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo
        Into the Heart of Borneo
        Trawler

Peters, Ellis (pseud. for Edith Pargeter)
            A Morbid Taste for Bones (written in 1977, set in 1137)
            One Corpse Too Many 1979, set in August 1138)
            Monks Hood 1980, set in December 1138)
            Saint Peter's Fair (1981, set in July 1139)
            The Leper of Saint Giles (1981, set in October 1139)
            The Virgin in the Ice (1982, set in November 1139)
            The Sanctuary Sparrow (1983, set in the Spring of 1140)
            The Devil's Novice (1983, set in September 1140)
            Dead Man's Ransom (1984, set in February 1141)
            The Pilgrim of Hate (1984, set in May 1141)
            An Excellent Mystery (1985, set in August 1141)
            The Raven in the Foregate (1986, set in December 1141)
            The Rose Rent (1986, set in June 1142)
            The Hermit of Eyton Forest (1988, set in October 1142)
            The Confession of Brother Haluin (1988, set in December 1142)
            The Heretics Apprentice (1990, set in June 1143)
            The Potters Field (1990, set in August 1143)
            The Summer of the Danes (1991, set in April 1144)
            The Holy Thief (1992, set in August 1144)
            Brother Cadfael's Penance (1994, set in November 1145)

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Plummer , Henry M.
        Boy Me and the Cat - Cruise of the Mascot 1912-1913

Parr, Charles McKew
        So Noble a Captain - the Life and Times of Ferdinand Magellan

Poolman , Kenneth
        Speedwell Voyage - A tale of piracy and mutiny in the eighteenth century

Putegnat , Michael
        Laguna

Raban , Jonathan
        Arabia through the looking glass (1979)

Raban , Jonathan
        Coasting - A Private Voyage (around Great Britain)

Raban , Jonathan
        Old Glory - A Voyage Down the Mississippi

Raban , Jonathan
        Bad Land - an American Romance

Raban , Jonathan
        Passage to Juneau - a sea and its meanings

Ransome , Arthur
        Winter Holiday

Ransome , Arthur
        Coot Club

Ransome , Arthur
        Autobiography of Arthur Ransome

Ransome , Arthur
        Great Northern

Ransome , Arthur
        Swallowdale

Ransome , Arthur
        Big Six

Ransome , Arthur
        Secret Water

Ransome , Arthur
        Peter Duck

Ransome , Arthur
        Picts and the Martyrs

Ransome , Arthur
        Swallows and Amazons

Ransome , Arthur
        Pigeon Post

Ransome , Arthur
        We didn t mean to go to sea

Ransome , Arthur
        Missee Lee

Rice, Edward
        Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton - the secret agent who made a pilgrimage

Scott , Michael
        Alchemyst - the secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel ( Number 1 in the series _

Scott, Michael
        Magician - the secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel ( Number 2 in the series )

Shepard, Birse
        Lore of the Wreckers

Sica, Mario         Where it all began Brownsea August 1907 - The First Experimental Scout Camp

Sinnett-Jones, David         Not All Plain Sailing

Sinnett-Jones, David         Passion for Life - Adventure against the odds

Slocum, Joshua
        Voyage of the Liberdade

Slocum , Joshua
        Sailing Alone Around the World

Slocum, Joshua
        Voyage of the Destroyer from New York to Brazil

Smith , Martin Cruz
        Havanna Bay

Smith , Martin Cruz
          Satalin's Ghost - an Arkady Renko novel

Souhami , Diana
        Selkirks Island

Stewart, Rory
          The Prince of the Marshes and other occupational hazards of a year in Iraq

Stone, Nathaniel
          On the Water - Discovering America in a Rowboat

Sverin , Tim
        In Search of Robinson Crusoe

Testa , Serge
        500 Days

Theroux , Paul
        Kingdom by the sea - A Journey around the Coast of Great Britain

Thomas , Lowell
        Count Lukner - the Sea Devil

Thomas , Lowell
        With Lawrence in Arabia New enlarged edition

Thompson, Harry
        This Thing of Darkness (about Fitzroy, Darwin and the Beagle)

Tuchman, Barbara W.
        A Distant Mirror - the calamitous fourteenth century

Tuchman, Barbara W.
        The Guns of August (the first 100 days of World War 1)

Tuchman, Barbara W.
        The Zimmermann Telegram - The astounding historic espionage operation that propelled America into World War 1

Tuchman, Barbara W.
        Distant Mirror - the calamitous 14th Century

Upfield, Arthur W.
        The Bachelors of Broken Hill

Upfield, Arthur W.
        The Bone is pointed

Upfield, Arthur W.
        The Bushman Who Came Back

Upfield, Arthur W.
        The Lure of the Bush

Upfield, Arthur W.
        Man of Two Tribes

Upfield, Arthur W.
        Murder Must Wait

Upfield, Arthur W.
        No Footprints in the Bush (also published as Bushranger of the Skies)

Upfield, Arthur W.
        The Torn Branch

Upfield, Arthur W.
        Valley of Smugglers

Upfield, Arthur W.
        The White Savage

Wallach, Jan
        Desert Queen -The extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell - Adventurer Advisor

Wardale, Roger
        Nancy Blackett - under sail with Arthur Ransome

Warner , William E.
        Beautiful Swimmers - Watermen. Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay

Watson , Don B.
        21500 miles alone in a canoe

Weddle , Robert S.
        Spanish Sea - The Gulf of Mexico in North American Discovery 1500 - 1685

White , Robb
        How to build a tin canoe - Confessions of an Old Salt

Wills , Gary
        St. Augustine


29 July 2010

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