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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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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 |
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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 |
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 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 |
Dillon, Richard H. | San Francisco Adventurers and Visionaries |
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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 |
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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. |
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Fishlock, Trevor 1972 |
Wales and the Welsh |
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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 |
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Gibbs, James A., Jr. |
Shipwrecks of the Pacific Coast |
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Gleason, Madeleine Rowse 1994 |
The Voyages of the Ship Revere, 1849-1883 (Pacific Maritime History) |
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Hansen, Gladys | San Francisco Almanac |
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 |
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. |
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Levy, Jo Ann 1992 |
They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
W.W. Norton & Company New York, New York, 1948 |
Sandweiss, Martha A. | The Oxford History of the American West |
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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 |
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 |
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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 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 |
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Gregory, Philippa A Respectable Trade A Novel of the Slave Trade into Bristol England, 1700s |
Touchstone New York, 1998 |
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Kneale, Matthew English Passengers: A Novel (Booker Prize Finalist) |
Anchor Books/Random House New York, 2001 |
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L'Amour, Louis | First published 1957 Numerous reprints exist. |
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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 |
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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) |
Simon and Schuster New York, 1951 |
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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 |
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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