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Books are also throughout the site under various topics.

Following is a partial list of books and publications referenced during the development of The Maritime Heritage Project.

Below the book lists are world ports and maritime museums visited during the past 40 years. These publications and travels are the the foundation for The Maritime Heritage Project. Other books are recommended throughout the site.

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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 Quicksilver Press Revised 1997	Walking San Francisco on the Barbary Coast Trail
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)	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 Hamilton	The Clipper Ship Era: An Epitome Of Famous American And British Clipper Ships, Their Owners, Builders, Commanders And Crews 1843-1869 Originally published 1920s.	In 2009 an historical reproduction was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove imperfections introduced by the digitization process. The book may have occasional errors that do not impede the value of information.
Cummins, Ella Sterling with an Introduction to the Reprint by Oscar Lewis Illustrated	The Story of the Files: A Review of California Writers and Literature (Classic Reprint)	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: The Story Of American's Mail And Passenger Sailing Lines	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 Of Life At Sea	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 New York, 1959
Dillon, Richard H.	San Francisco Adventurers and Visionaries
Dillon, Richard H. The seamen's lot became so horrible in this period that entire crews frequently jumped ship when a vessel came into port.	Shanghaiing Days: The Thrilling Account of 19th Century Hell-Ships, Bucko Mates and Masters, and Dangerous Ports-of-Call from San Francisco to Singapore	1961. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the American Merchant Marine went into a tragic decline, and sailors were forced to serve under conditions that were little better than serfdom. Successful skippers had turned into slave drivers, cracking down on the sailors, sometimes even murdering their "hands."
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. Dry Bones Press San Francisco, California 1995	Old Mok: The Story of a Gold Camp
Fishlock, Trevor Author of books on Wales, India, Russia, America and on 19th century exploration. Poetry Wales Press Bridgerid, Wales. 2003	More Fishlock's Sea Stories Trevor Fishlock has worked on assignment in 70+ countries and was staff correspondent of The Times in India and New York, and Moscow bureau chief for The Daily Telegraph.
Fishlock, Trevor 1972	Wales and the Welsh
Genthe, Arnold	Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown	1984
Gentry, Curt Originally published 1964 Reprints are readily available	The Madams of San Francisco: An Irreverent History of the City By the Golden Gate
Gibbs, James A., Jr. 1957	Shipwrecks of the Pacific Coast
Gleason, Madeleine Rowse 1994	The Voyages of the Ship Revere, 1849-1883 (Pacific Maritime History)
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 Firsthand account of a sailor's life in the 1870s. (Publication ... of the Marine Research Society, #17.)	Dover Publications New York, New York, 1928 (Marine Research Society.) Excellent description of the hard life of an American sailor in the 1870s. Harlow, from New England, describes his first coastal voyage on a schooner, down the coast and up the Chesapeake and the Potomac. Then he tells of his long voyage to Australia on a square rigger. Well documented with sea chanteys, pictures and explanatory footnotes.
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 The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffering and brutality of England's convict transportation system. 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps.
Kalani, Lyn and Sweedler, Sarah	Fort Ross and the Sonoma Coast (CA) (Images of America)	Arcadia San Francisco, California, 2004
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 Henry Holt and Company New York, 1996	The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America Between 1846 and 1851, more than one-million people--the potato famine emigrants--sailed from Ireland to America. This book tells of the courage and determination of those who crossed the Atlantic in leaky, overcrowded sailing ships. Among them the child Henry Ford and the twenty-six-year-old Patrick Kennedy, great-grandfather of John F. Kennedy.
Levy, Jo Ann 1992	They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush
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	Best of Sail	Grosset & Dunlap New York, 1972
Markham, Edwin	California Songs and Stories	Powell Publishing Company Los Angeles, California 1931
Paine, Ralph Delahaye	The Old Merchant Marine; A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors	Republished as a Kindle Edition.
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
McNutt, James C.	National Geographic Greatest Photographs of the American West: Capturing 125 Years of Majesty, Spirit, and Adventure	National Geographic, 2012 Divided into four chapters--Legends, Encounters, Boundaries, and Visions-- National Geographic photography, past and present, brings the American West alive through the best of its collection.
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, 1848-1984: From Paddlewheels to Containerships	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
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
Sandweiss, Martha A.	The Oxford History of the American West
Rathmell, George	Realms of Gold : The Colorful Writers of San Francisco, 1850-1950 (California Literary Heritage)	Creative Arts Book Company Berkeley, California, 1998
Shafter, Oscar Lovell	Life, Diary And Letters Of Oscar Lovell Shafter: Associate Justice, Supreme Court Of California (1915) January 1, 1864 to December 31, 1868	Blair-Murdock Company San Francisco, California, 1915
Sobel, Dava	Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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 Containing a Summary of the History of California, and a Complete History of San Francisco, Its Great City: To Which Are Added, Biographical Memoirs of Some Prominent Citizens	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 Peter Simple and The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
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.

Maritime Museums Visited

° 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 B.C., Vancouver Maritime Museum
° Caribbean: Curacao Maritime Museum, Willemstad, Curacao
° Channel Islands: Lighthouse
° England, Greenwich Maritime Museum
° France: Maritime Museum at Nice
° French Polynesia: Moorea Maritime Museum
° New Zealand National Maritime Museum, Auckland

World Ports Visited

° America

- California (Bodega Bay, Fort Ross, Los Angeles, Monterey, Morro Bay, San Diego, San Francisco — all coastal cities, actually)
- Florida (Key West and Miami)
- Hawaii (All Islands)
- Illinois (Chicago)
- Louisiana (New Orleans)
- Maine (all coastal cities), Maryland (Baltimore)
- Massachuetts (Boston, Salem)
- New Jersey (all coastal cities)
- Louisiana (New Orleans)
- Oregon (Portland and all coastal cities)
- Washingon (Seattle and all coastal cities)

° Australia: Brisbane, Cairns, Port Douglas
° Bahamas: Nassau
° British Columbia: Vancouver Island
° Caribbean: Aruba, Curacao, Grenada, Barbados, St. Vincent/Grenadiens, St. Thomas, Puerto Rico, Jamaica
° Channel Islands (English Channel): Guernsey, Jersey, Sark
° Costa Rica: Coastal cities along the Atlantic
° England: Greenwich, London, Plymouth, Weymouth
° France: Monaco, Nice, Paris (upriver)
° Cook Islands: Roratonga
° Greece: Capri, Santorini
° Holland: Amsterdam, Den Haag
° Hong Kong, Kowloon and Macao
° Ireland: Dublin and coastal cities
° Italy: Civitacchia, Livorno, Naples, Venice
° Japan: Inland Sea villages, Tokyo,
° Mexico: Both coasts to Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta, Cancun, Playa del Mar, Sea of Cortez
° New Zealand: Auckland, Devonport
° Tahiti (French Polynesia): Bora Bora, Moorea
° Thailand: Bangkok (on the Chao Praya river), and coastal cities
° Turkey: Kusadasi
° Wales: Holyhead, Pembroke, Swansea