First have a look about the
books recommended in a recent iniriative by the
US Naval Academy of Annapolis
Voices of the Old Sea • Norman Lewis,
The Improbable Voyage • Tristan Jones,
Cape Cod • Henry David Thoreau • Paul Theroux,
The Last Great Sea, A Voyage Through the Human and Natural History of the North Pacific Ocean • Terry Glavin • Carl Safina,
Outposts, Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire • Simon Winchester,
My Old Man and the Sea: A Father and Son Sail Around Cape Horn • David Hays • Daniel Hays,
The Arch of Kerguelen, Voyage to the Island of Desolation • Jean-Paul Kauffmann,
End of the Earth, Voyaging to Antarctica • Peter Matthiessen,
Desert Solitaire • Edward Abbey,
The worst Journey in the World, - Apsley Cherry Garrad,
Midnight's Children • Salman Rushdie,
Our Man in Havana • Graham Greene,
Voyage of the Beagle • Charles Darwin
Coming into the Country • John McPhee,
Songlines • Bruce Chatwin,
Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond
The World According to Clarkson, J. Clarkson
