| Non Fiction | ||
| Altrocchi, Julia Cooley | The spectacular San Franciscans (Society in America series) |
E.P. Dutton and Company New York, 1949 |
| Asbury, Herbert | The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld |
Originally published 1933 Numerous reprints exist |
| Bacon, Daniel | Walking San Francisco on the Barbary Coast Trail |
Quicksilver Press Revised 1997 |
| Bateson, Charles | Gold Fleet for California: Forty Niners from Australia and New Zealand |
Michigan State University Press East Lansing, Michigan, 1963 |
| Beebee, Lucius and Clegg, Charles Illustrated: Over 1000 Pictures |
The American West: The Pictorial Epic of a Continent (Hear the Train Blow) 
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E.P. Dutton and Company New York, 1955 |
| Camp, William Martin | San Francisco: Port of Gold |
Doubleday & Company New York, 1948 |
| Carson, Rachel | The Sea Around Us |
Originally published 1950 Reprints are readily available |
| Chandler, Arthur | Old Tales of San Francisco |
Kendall/Hunt Publishing 1977 |
| Clark, Arthur H. | The Clipper Ship Era: An Epitome Of Famous American And British Clipper Ships, Their Owners, Builders, Commanders And Crews 1843-1869 |
1970 |
| Cummins, Ella Sterling with an Introduction to the Reprint by Oscar Lewis Illustrated |
The Story of the Files; A Review of Californian Writers and Literature. |
Originally published 1893 Reprinted by Yosemite Collections, San Leandro 1982 |
| Cutler, Carl C., Forward by Chester W. Nimitz, Fleet Admiral, U.S. Navy |
Queens of the Western Ocean |
U.S. Naval Institute Annapolis, 1961 |
| Dana, Richard Henry Harvard Classic. Edited by Charles W. Eliot, LLD |
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative (Dover Maritime Books) |
P.F. Collier & Son Corp. New York, New York, 1937 |
| Davis, Sam | A Miner's Christmas Carol and Other Frontier Tales |
Originally published 1886 Reprinted by Western Tanager Press, Santa Cruz, 1987 |
| Dillon, Richard H. with a foreward by William Hogan (Former Book Editor at the San Francisco Chronicle) |
Embarcadero: Being a Chronicle of True Sea Adventures from the Port of San Francisco | Coward-McCann |
| Dillon, Richard H. | San Francisco: Adventurers and Visionaries | |
| Dillon, Richard H. |
Shanghaiing Days |
1961 |
| Dobie, Charles Caldwell Illustrated by E.H. Suydam |
San Francisco's Chinatown |
D. Appleton-Century Company New York/London, 1936 |
| Engle, Eloise |
America's Maritime Heritage |
Naval Institute Press Annapolis, Maryland, 1975 |
| Epstein, Richard F. | Old Mok: The Story of a Gold Camp |
Dry Bones Press San Francisco, California, 1995 |
| Fishlock, Trevor | Fishlock's Sea Stories |
Poetry Wales Press Bridgerid, Wales, 2003 |
| Fishlock, Trevor | Wales & the Welsh |
1972 |
| Gentry, Curt | The Madams San Francisco: A Highly Irreverent History of the City By the Golden Gate |
Originally published 1964 Reprints are readily available |
| Gibbs, James A., Jr. | Shipwrecks of the Pacific Coast |
1957 |
| Gleason, Madeleine Rowse | The Voyages of the Ship Revere: 1849-1883 | 1994 |
| Hansen, Gladys |
San Francisco Almanac Everything You Want to Know About Everyone's Favorite City |
Chronicle Books San Francisco, California, 1995 |
| Hardy, A.C. | The Wonderful Story of the Sea |
Odhams Press Limited Long Acre, London |
| Harlow, Frederick Pease | The Making of a Sailor / or Sea Life Aboard a Yankee Square-Rigger (Publication ... of the Marine Research Society, #17.) |
Dover Publications New York, New York 1928 |
| Howe, Octavius Thorndike | Argonauts of '49: History and Adventures of the Emigrant Companies from Massachusetts 1849-1850  |
Cambrdige Harvard University Press, 1928 |
| Hjalmarson, Birgitta | Artful Players: Artistic Life in Early San Francisco |
Balcony Press Los Angeles, California 1999 |
| Hughes, Robert | The Fatal Shore: The epic of Australia's founding |
Alfred A. Knopf New York, 1987 |
| Kalani, Lyn and Sweedler, Sarah | Fort Ross and the Sonoma Coast (CA) (Images of America) |
Arcadia San Francisco, California, 2004 |
| Keene, Florence | With Flags Flying |
Centre Print Whangard, New Zealand, 1972 |
| Latta, Estelle in collaboration with Mary L. Allison |
Controversial Mark Hopkins: The Great Swindle of American History | Cothran Historical and Research Foundation Sacramento, California Duke University, 1953/1963 |
| Laxton, Edward | The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America |
Henry Holt and Company New York, 1996 |
| Lewis, Oscar | Sea Routes To The Gold Fields - The Migration By Water To California In 1849-1852 |
Originally published 1849 Numerous reprints are available |
| Lubbock, Basil Introduction by Alan Villiers, Illustrated by Jack Spurling |
The Best of Sail |
Grosset & Dunlap New York, 1972 |
| Markham, Edwin | Stories and Songs, of the Series CALIFORNIA |
Powell Publishing Company Los Angeles, California 1931 |
| Marvin, Winthrop L. | The American Merchant Marine: Its History And Romance From 1620 To 1902 |
Chales Scribner's Sons New York, 1902 |
| Masefield, John | Sea Life In Nelson's Time |
Naval Institute Press Annapolis, Maryland, 2002 |
| McCreery, Cindy |
Ports of the World : Prints from the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich c.1700-1870 |
Philip Wilson Publishers 1999 |
| Miller, Kerby and Patricia Mulholland | Journey of Hope: The Story of Irish Immigration to America |
Chronicle Books San Francisco, California, 2001 |
| Mjelde, Michael Jay | The San Francisco Waterfront in 1872: Annotated | |
| Mjelde, Michael Jay | Clipper Ship Captain: Daniel McLaughlin and the Glory of the Seas |
Assn of the National Maritime Museum Library: Pacific Maritime History Series #3, 1993 |
| Muir, John | The Mountains of California (The Writings of John Muir volume 4, Volume 1) |
Ten Speed Press Berkeley, California |
| Niven, John | The American President Lines and its Forebears: 1948-1984 | University of Delaware Press 1987 |
| O'Brien, Robert Illustrated by Antonio Sotomayor |
California Called Them - A Saga Of Golden Days And Roaring Camps |
McGraw-Hill Book Company New York, 1951 |
| Olmstead, Roger R. ("Lavishly Illustrated") |
Scenes of Wonder & Curiosity From Hutchings' California Magazine, 1856-1861 |
Howell-North Books Berkeley, California, 1951 |
| Paasch, Captain H. | Paasch's Illustrated Marine Dictionary |
Originally Published 1885 by the Captain in Antwerp. Lyons & Burford/Conway Maritime Press, 1997 |
| Pickelhaupt, Bill | Shanghaied in San Francisco
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| Rathmell, George | Realms of Gold : The Colorful Writers of San Francisco, 1850-1950 (California Literary Heritage) |
Creative Arts Book Company Berkeley, California, 1998 |
| Repplier, Agnes | Junipero Serra: Pioneer colonist of California |
Doubleday Doran & Co. Garden City, New York, 1913 |
| Rogers, John C. | Origins of Sea Terms |
Mystic Seaport Museum, 1985 |
| Rowe, William Hutchinson | The Maritime History of Maine: Three Centuries of Shipbuilding and Seafaring | W.W. Norton & Company New York, New York, 1948 |
| Shafter, Oscar Lovell | Life: Diary and Letters of Oscar Lovell Shafter Associate Justice Supreme Court of California January 1, 1864 to December 31, 1868 |
Blair-Murdock Company San Francisco, California, 1915 |
| Sobel, Dava | Longitude: The True Story of a Long Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time |
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| Soule, Frank Gihon, John H., M.D. Nisbet, James |
The Annals of San Francisco: A Complete Facsimile Edition of the Original Work Published in 1855 by D. Appleton & Company  |
Berkeley Hills Books Berkeley, California, 1998 |
| Strobridge, William F. | Regulars in the Redwoods: The U.S. Army in Northern California 1852-1861 (Frontier Military Series) |
Arthur H. Clark Company Frontier Military SEries Volume XVI, 1994 |
| Tryckare, Tre | The Lore of Ships |
Crescent Books New York, 1973 |
| Twain, Mark | The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress (Modern Library Classics) |
Originally published 1869 Many reprints exist. |
| Winchester, Simon | The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology |
Avon Books New York, 2001 |
| Yung, Judy | Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco |
University of California Press Berkeley, California, 1995 |
| Fiction | ||
| Gregory, Philippa | A Respectable Trade : A Novel of the Slave Trade into Bristol England, 1700s |
Touchstone New York, 1998 |
| Kneale, Matthew | English Passengers: A Novel (Booker Prize Finalist) |
Anchor Books/Random House New York, 2001 |
| L'Amour, Louis | Sitka |
First published 1957 Numerous reprints exist. |
| Margolin, Marcolm | The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs & Reminiscences |
Heyday Books Berkeley, California, 1981 |
| Marryat, Frederick | Peter Simple | |
| Melville, Herman | Moby-Dick: or, The Whale(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)  |
First published 1851, London Numerous reprints exist, including illustrated versions |
| Moberg, Vilhelm | Emigrants: The Emigrant Novels Book 1 (The Emigrant Novels / Vilhelm Moberg, Book 1) : A Novel Translated from the Swedish by Gustaf Lannestock |
Simon and Schuster New York, 1951 |
| Solley, George C. Selected and Arranged by George C. Solley and Eric Steinbauch |
Moods of the Sea: Masterworks of Sea Poetry |
Naval Institute Press 1981 |
| Wallace, Willard M. | The Raiders: A Novel of the Civil War at Sea |
Little, Brown and Company Boston, Massachusetts, 1970 |
| Other Publications | ||
| In addition to the books noted, primary sources for shipping news have been: °The Daily Alta California and The San Francisco Chronicle microfiche records in the Main Branch of the San Francisco Public Library. ° Documents from the J. Porter Shaw San Francisco Martime Library, San Francisco. ° The California Historical Society ° Hutchings California Magazine ° The Oakland Museum of California ° Logs and documents from The National Archives and Records Administration, San Bruno, California. ° Secondary publications have included newspapers from Boston, New York, and occasionally New Orleans. |
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| Maritime Museums | ||
| ° Boston: Boston National Historic Park ° America: California: San Francisco Maritime Museum and National Park ° America: Connecticut: Mystic Seaport Musuem at Mystic ° America: Maine: Searsport Maritime Museum ° America: New York: South Street Seaport Museum ° Australia: Brisbane Maritime Museum ° British Columbia: Maritime Museum of British Columbia, Vancouver Maritime Museum ° Channel Islands: Lighthouse ° England, Greenwich Maritime Museum ° France: Maritime Museum at Nice ° French Polynesia: Moorea Maritime Museum ° New Zealand National Maritime Museum, Auckland |
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| World Ports Visited | ||
° AmericaCalifornia (Bodega Bay, Fort Ross, Los Angeles, Monterey, Morro Bay, San Diego, San Francisco — all coastal cities, actually)° Australia: Brisbane, Cairns, Port Douglas ° Bahamas: Nassau ° British Columbia: Vancouver Island ° Channel Islands (English Channel): Guernsey, Jersey, Sark ° Costa Rica: All East Coast cities ° England: Greenwich, Plymouth, Weymouth ° France: Monaco, Nice, Paris (upriver) ° Cook Islands: Roratonga ° Greece: Capri, Santorini ° Holland: Amsterdam ° Hong Kong, Kowloon and Macao ° Ireland: Dublin ° Italy: Civitacchia, Livorno, Naples, Venice ° Japan: Inland Sea ° Jamaica: Kingston, Montego Bay ° Mexico: Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta ° New Zealand: Auckland, Devonport ° Tahiti (French Polynesia): Bora Bora, Moorea ° Thailand: Bangkok (on the Chao Praya river), and coastal cities ° Turkey: Kusadasi ° Wales |
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