AOS Other Non-Fiction Book List

There are many books written about Merchant Ships, Clippers, Whalers etc. from the Age of Sail. This section lists some of them.

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• Abby Jane Morrell
  • Captain's Wife
• Adrian Tinniswood
  • Pirates Of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean
• Alexander Boyd Hawes
  • Off Soundings: Aspects of the Maritime History of Rhode Island
• Alexander Laing
  • American Sail: A Pictorial History
  • American Ships
  • Clipper Ship Men
  • Clipper Ships and Their Makers
  • Seafaring America
• Andrew Adams & Richard Woodman
  • Light Upon the Waters: The History of Trinity House 1514-2014
• Andrew D. Lambert
  • Crusoe's Island: A Rich and Curious History of Pirates, Castaways and Madness
• Andrew W. German
  • The Charles W. Morgan: The World's Last Wooden Whaleship
• Andy Peters
  • Ship Decoration 1630-1780
• Angus Konstam
  • Blackbeard: America's Most Notorious Pirate
  • Blackbeard's Last Fight: Pirate Hunting in North Carolina 1718
  • Buccaneers 1620-1690
  • Elizabethan Sea Dogs 1560-1605
  • Ghost Ships: Tales of Abandoned, Doomed and Haunted Vessels
  • Piracy: The Complete History
  • Privateers and Pirates 1730-1830
  • The Barbary Pirates 15th-17th Centuries
  • The Great Expedition: Sir Francis Drake on the Spanish Main 1585-86
  • The History of Pirates
  • The Pirate Menace: Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy
  • The Pirate Ship 1660-1730
  • The Pirate World: A History of the Most Notorious Sea Robbers
• Angus Konstam & David Rickman
  • Pirate: The Golden Age
• Angus Konstam & Roger Michael Kean
  • Pirates: Predators of the Seas
• Benerson Little
  • How History's Worst Pirates Pillaged, Plundered, and Got Away with it: The Stories, Techniques, and Tactics of the Most Feared Buccaneers from 1500-1800
  • Pirate Hunting: The Fight Against Pirates, Privateers, and Sea Raiders from Antiquity to the Present
  • The Buccaneer's Realm: Pirate Life on the Spanish Main, 1674-1688
  • The Golden Age of Piracy: The Truth Behind Pirate Myths
  • The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730
• Bill Lindsay
  • William Schaw Lindsay: Victorian Entrepreneur
• Brian Fagan
  • Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans
• Brian Lavery
  • Royal Yachts Under Sail
  • Ship: 5,000 Years of Maritime Adventure
  • The Conquest of the Ocean
• Cathryn Pearce
  • Cornish Wrecking 1700-1860: Reality and Popular Myth
• Cheryl A. Fury (Editor)
  • The Social History of English Seamen, 1485-1649
  • The Social History of English Seamen, 1650-1815
• Christopher Dewey
  • A Tale of Two Shipwrecks: The U. S. Steamer Convoy and the Confederate Schooner William H. Judah
• Clayton R. Barrow Jr (Editor)
  • America Spreads Her Sails: U.S. Seapower in the 19th Century
• Craig Cabell, Graham A. Thomas & Allan Richards
  • Blackbeard: The Hunt for the World's Most Notorious Pirate
  • Captain Kidd: The Hunt for the Truth
• Dane A. Morrison
  • Eastward of Good Hope: Early America in a Dangerous World Hardcover
  • True Yankees: The South Seas & the Discovery of American Identity
• David Cordingly
  • Heroines and Harlots: Women at Sea in the Great Age of Sail
  • Life among the Pirates: The Romance and the Reality
  • Spanish Gold: Captain Woodes Rogers and the Pirates of the Caribbean
• David Hayes
  • Pilot Cutters Under Sail: Pilots and Pilotage in Britain and Northern Europe
• David O. Dowling
  • Surviving the Essex: The Afterlife of America's Most Storied Shipwreck
• David R. Collin
  • Kirkcudbright's Prince of Denmark and Her Voyages in the South Seas
• David W. Shaw
  • Flying Cloud: The True Story of America's Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided Her
  • The Sea Shall Embrace Them: The Tragic Story of the Steamship Arctic
• Diana & Michael Preston
  • A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind: The Life Of William Dampier
• Diana Preston
  • Paradise in Chains: The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia
• Dudley Pope
  • Harry Morgan's Way: The Biography of Sir Henry Morgan 1635-1684
• E. Keble Chatterton
  • A World for the Taking
  • Pirates and Piracy
  • The Fine Art of Smuggling
• Ed Kritzler
  • Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
• Edward Yardley
  • Frank Henry Mason: Marine Painter and Poster Artist
• Edwin P. Hoyt
  • Mutiny on the Globe
• Eric Jay Dolin
  • Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
  • Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse
  • Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
  • Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
  • Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
  • When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money During the Age of Sail
• Faye M. Kert
  • Privateering: Patriots and Profits in the War of 1812
  • Trimming Yankee Sails: Pirates and Privateers of New Brunswick
• Felix Riesenberg
  • Under Sail: A Boy's Voyage Around Cape Horn
• George D. Jepson
  • Sailing the Sweetwater Seas: Wooden Boats and Ships on the Great Lakes, 1817–1940
• Gill Hoffs
  • The Lost Story of the Ocean Monarch: Fire, Family, & Fidelity
  • The Lost Story of the William and Mary: The Cowardice of Captain Stinson
  • The Sinking of RMS Tayleur: The Lost Story of the Victorian Titanic
• Graham A. Thomas
  • Pirate Hunter: The Life of Captain Woodes Rogers
  • The Buccaneer King: The Story of Captain Henry Morgan
• Gregory N. Flemming
  • At the Point of a Cutlass: The Pirate Capture, Bold Escape, and Lonely Exile of Philip Ashton
• H. V. Bowen, Robert J. Blyth & John McAleer
  • Monsoon Traders: The Maritime World of the East India Company
• Helen Hollick
  • Life of a Smuggler: Fact and Fiction
  • Pirates: Truth and Tale
• Hugh Bicheno
  • Elizabeth's Sea Dogs: How England's Mariners Became the Scourge of the Seas
• J. North Conway
  • The Wreck of the Portland: A Doomed Ship, a Violent Storm, and New England's Worst Maritime Disaster
• J.M. & M. F. Hutchinson
  • Voyages with a Merchant Prince: Secrets of the Ripley Diary
• James Davey
  • Tudor and Stuart Seafarers: The Emergence of a Maritime Nation, 1485-1707
• James F. Jenney
  • Naval Disasters In Rhode Island: 300 Years of Military Misfortune
• Jean Hood
  • Come Hell and High Water: Extraordinary Stories of Wreck, Terror and Triumph on the Sea
  • Marked for Misfortune: An Epic Tale of Shipwreck, Human Endeavour and Rescue in the Age of Sail
• Jean Lee Latham
  • Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
• Jean Marteilhe
  • Galley Slave
• Jean Sutton
  • Lords of the East: The East India Company and its Ships
  • The East India Company's Maritime Service, 1746-1834: Masters of the Eastern Seas
• Jennifer N. Sellitti
  • The Adriatic Affair: A Maritime Hit-and-Run off the Coast of Nantucket
• Jeremy Black
  • The British Seaborne Empire
• Jo Stanley
  • From Cabin 'Boys' to Captains: 250 Years of Women at Sea
• Jo Stanley (Editor)
  • Bold in Her Breeches: Women Pirates Across the Ages
• Joan Druett
  • Eleanor's Odyssey: Journal of the Captain's Wife on the East Indiaman Friendship, 1799-1801
  • Hen Frigates: Passion and Peril, Nineteenth-Century Women at Sea
  • In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon
  • Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
  • Lady Castaways
  • Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820-1920
  • Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail
  • The Elephant Voyage
  • The Notorious Captain Hayes: The Remarkable True Story of of William 'Bully' Hayes, Pirate of the Pacific
• Joe Follansbee
  • Blowing Out The Stink: Life on a Lumber and Cod Schooner, 1897-1947
• John Blake
  • Charts of War: The Maps and Charts That Have Informed and Illustrated War at Sea
  • The Sea Chart: The Illustrated History of Nautical Maps and Navigational Charts
• John Jennings
  • Clipper Ship Days
• John L. Coombes
  • Tall Ships: The Sixteen Square Riggers of Australia and New Zealand
• John Mack
  • The Sea: A Cultural History
• John Newton
  • Slaver Captain
• Julian Stockwin
  • Stockwin's Maritime Miscellany: A Ditty Bag of Wonders from the Golden Age of Sail
• Kenneth Poolman
  • The Speedwell Voyage: A Tale of Piracy and Mutiny in the Eighteenth Century
• Kevin Brown
  • Passage to the World: The Emigrant Experience 1807-1939
  • Poxed and Scurvied: The Story of Sickness & Health at Sea
• Marilyn Clay
  • 18th - 19th Century Women at Sea
• Matthew McCarthy
  • Privateering, Piracy and British Policy in Spanish America 1810-1830
• Nancy Shoemaker
  • Living With Whales: Documents and Oral Histories of Native New England Whaling History
  • Native American Whalemen and the World: Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race
• Nathaniel Philbrick
  • "Mayflower": A Voyage to War
  • In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired "Moby Dick"
  • Sea of Glory: The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838-42
• Nelson Cole Haley
  • Whale Hunter
• Nicholas Tracy
  • The Miracle of the Kent: A Tale of Courage, Fire, and Faith
• Nick Robins
  • Scotland and the Sea: The Scottish Dimension in Maritime History
  • The Coming of the Comet: The Rise and Fall of the Paddle Steamer
• Peter J. Emanuel Jr.
  • Course Change: The Whaleship Stonington in the Mexican-American War
• Philip Browne
  • The Unfortunate Captain Peirce and the Wreck of the Halsewell, East Indiaman, 1786
• Philip McCutchan
  • Tall Ships
• Prof. Joshua M. Smith (Editor)
  • Voyages, the Age of Sail: Documents in American Maritime History, Volume I, 1492-1865
• R. Bruce Macdonald
  • North Star of Herschel Island: The last Canadian Arctic fur trading ship
• R. D. Madison (Editor)
  • The Essex and the Whale: Melville's Leviathan Library and the Birth of Moby-Dick
• Richard Henry Dana Jr.
  • Two Years Before the Mast
• Richard Sanders
  • If a Pirate I Must Be...: The True Story of Bartholomew Roberts - King of the Caribbean
• Richard Woodman
  • A Brief History of Mutiny: Furious, Savage and Bloody - 400 Years of Rebellion
  • A Low Set of Blackguards: The East India Company and its Maritime Service 1600-1834
  • Britannia's Realm: In Support of the State 1763-1816
  • Keepers of the Sea: History of the Yachts and Tenders of Trinity House
  • Masters Under God: Makers of Empire 1816-1884
  • Neptune's Trident: Spices and Slaves 1500-1507
  • The History of the Ship: The Comprehensive Story of Seafaring from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
  • The Merchant Navy
• Rob Mundle
  • Great South Land: How Dutch Sailors Found Australia but Lost it to a British Pirate
  • Under Full Sail
• Robert A. Geake
  • The New England Mariner Tradition: Old Salts, Superstitions, Shanties and Shipwrecks
• Robert F. Weir (Andrew W. German-Editor)
  • The Watch's Wild Cry: A Voyage Aboard the Whaling Vessel Clara Bell
• Robert Gardiner
  • The Earliest Ships: The Evolution of Boats into Ships
• Robert Gardiner (Editor)
  • Cogs, Caravels and Galleons: The Sailing Ship 1000-1650
• Robert H. Patton
  • Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution
• Robert Hutchinson
  • The Spanish Armada
• Robert Parthesius
  • Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters: The Development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) Shipping Network in Asia 1595-1660
• Roger Crowley
  • Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire
  • Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
• Roy Adkins & Lesley Adkins
  • Eavesdropping on Jane Austen’s England: How Our Ancestors Lived Two Centuries Ago
• Sam Jefferson
  • Clipper Ships and the Golden Age of Sail: Races and Rivalries on the Nineteenth Century High Seas
  • Sea Fever: The True Adventures that Inspired our Greatest Maritime Authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway
  • The Sea Devil: The Adventures of Count Felix von Luckner, the Last Raider under Sail
• Sam Willis
  • Shipwreck: A History of Disasters at Sea
• Samuel Samuels
  • From Forecastle to Cabin
• Sean Kingsley & Rex Cowan
  • The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy
• Shane Granger
  • Cargo of Hope: Voyages of the Humanitarian Ship Vega
  • The Vega Adventures
• Sian Rees
  • The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth Century Ship and its Cargo of Female Convicts
  • The Ship Thieves: The True Tale of James Porter, Colonial Pirate
• Stephen Baines
  • Captain Cook's Merchant Ships: Freelove, Three Brothers, Mary, Friendship, Endeavour, Adventure, Resolution and Discovery
  • The Yorkshire Mary Rose: The Ship General Carleton of Whitby
• Stephen R. Berry
  • A Path in the Mighty Waters: Shipboard Life and Atlantic Crossings to the New World
• Stephen Taylor
  • Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail
  • The Caliban Shore: The Fate of the Grosvenor Castaways
• Susan Rose
  • The Medieval Sea
• T. S. Rhodes
  • Pirates of the Golden Age: Revealing the True History of Pirates and their World
• The Mariners' Museum
  • The Dictionary of the World's Watercraft: Aak to Zumbra
• Thomas M. Truxes
  • Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York
  • The Overseas Trade of British America: A Narrative History
• Tim Severin
  • In Search Of Moby Dick: Quest for the White Whale
  • The Brendan Voyage
  • The China Voyage
  • The Jason Voyage
  • The Sindbad Voyage
  • The Spice Islands Voyage
  • The Ulysses Voyage
• Tom Bowling
  • A Brief History of Pirates and Buccaneers
  • Pirates and Privateers
• Tom Chaffin
  • Odyssey: Young Charles Darwin, the Beagle, and the Voyage That Changed the World
• Various Authors
  • America and the Sea: A Maritime History
• Veres Laszlo & Richard Woodman
  • The Story of Sail
• Victor Suthren
  • Black Flag of the North: Bartholomew Roberts, King of the Atlantic Pirates
• William Clark Russell
  • A Voyage to the Cape
  • The Ship: Her Story
  • William Dampier
• William M. Fowler, Jr
  • Steam Titans: Cunard, Collins, and the Epic Battle for Commerce on the North Atlantic
• William Morris Barnes
  • Rolling Home
• Wynford Davies
  • SS Great Britain