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Nine pirate books that aren't Treasure Island:
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Thank you all, so helpful. I've emailed the vessel with my request and plan to up an assortment flowers in port to carry aboard (or, maybe I'll make Jim carry them!). Can never have too many flowers and our suite is a larger one such.
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An apt addition for this 31st day of October:
The Ghost of the Mary Celeste
by Valerie Martin
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Have we yet mentioned Moby Dick? That one requires serious dedication.
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What a great idea for a thread, OctoberKat.
I don't have any contributions, but would like to thank everyone for their suggestions, lots to work through here.
Thank you!
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A woman captains a fishing vessel in tumultuous waters, a very good read!
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey
by Linda Greenlaw
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The Perfect Storm-- about the Andrea Gail
That's a good (scary) one.
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
by Sebastian Junger
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of course the bane of ships everywhere-- seagulls
jonathan livingston seagull
hah!
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I loved Michener's Hawaii, what a great read. Speaking of historical fiction other terrific writers with sea-themes include Raphael Sabatini, Morgan Llywelyn, C.S. Forester 's Hornblower saga.
Hawaii
by James A. Michener et al.
Link: http://amzn.com/0375760377
Tales of the South Pacific
by James A. Michener et al.
Link: http://amzn.com/0812986350
Grania: She-King of the Irish Seas
by Morgan Llywelyn
Link: http://amzn.com/0765318083
Captain Blood by Raphael Sabatini
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Boarded the Navigator today and in the Passages it shows the Block Party is scheduled for Saturday, October 31st.
Planning a costume?
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Thank you, wwcruisers, that's a CLICK for me.
Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes, and Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires
by Kristoffer A. Garin
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Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdal.
True story of his trip across the Pacific on a balsa raft to show how people migrated. Really lets you feel and know how good you have it on board a cruise ship.
Harry
Hah! Good point.
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That McCullough book is mighty tasty. If anyone's interested, I can podt a list Panama Canal books that may appeal.
In the meantime, more briny books:
Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey-Maturin series
A High Wind in Jamaica
by Richard Hughes
Link: http://amzn.com/0940322153
In Hazard (New York Review Books Classics)
by Richard Hughes
Link: http://amzn.com/1590172728
The Sea-Wolf
by Jack London
Link: http://amzn.com/0486411087
Fin Gall: A Novel of Viking Age Ireland (The Norsemen Saga)
by James L. Nelson
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Old school---
The Horatio Hornblower series by CS Forester. Poor guy suffered from Mal de Mar and Mal debarquement.
The African Queen is also an excellent thriller down the Ulanga river.
Oh yes indeed, might tasty.
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A favorite novel about the dangerous fishing industry off the coast of Northern California.
The Fisherman's Son
by Michael Koepf
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A thread to aggregate, suggest and link books about the seas, sailing, voyages, cruising, boating lakes and rivers, navigating canals, and all things afloat.
For a start -- a few sea-worthy anthologies for those so inclined when voyaging:
Stories of the Sea (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics)
edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Poems of the Sea (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
edited by J. D. McClatchy
Sea Lovers: Selected Stories
edited by Valerie Martin
American Sea Writing: A Literary Anthology (Library of America)
edited by Peter Neill et al.
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We'll be a few days in Copenhagen post-cruise and have settled on the D'Angleterre, an upscale, medium-size hotel with many services and facilities. It was recently renovated.
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There are loads of sea-faring tomes, fiction and non-fiction, worthy of note and recommendation. It might be useful (or at least enabling) to have a dedicated thread for same here. This is one of my favorites:
The Fisherman's Son --a novel
by Michael Koepf
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A few sea-worthy anthologies for those so inclined when voyaging:
Stories of the Sea (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics)
edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Poems of the Sea (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
edited by J. D. McClatchy
Sea Lovers: Selected Stories
edited by Valerie Martin
American Sea Writing: A Literary Anthology (Library of America)
Edited by Peter Neill et al.
I'll be bringing a copy of each aboard for reading during our 18 day cruise from Barbados to Brazil, then up the Amazon to Manaus returning back to Barbados. At voyage end, I intend to slip these tomes into whatever library may be aboard Silversea's Whisper ... with a modest modicum of subversive delight.
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I take quite a few prescribed meds. For travel I throw them all in their prescribed vials into a bath kit bag. Many prefer the facility of the day-by-day compartment boxes. I'm comfortable with my approach since the requisite prescription is printed on the label of each vial.
TSA is not the only agency one must consider. When traveling internationally across one or more borders there could be assorted agencies involved any one of which potentially could be picky about unlabeled meds.
Often when cruising one may fly out of the US into a port in another country and sometimes, given plans, cross another border or two.
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Silver Box arrived today. It's real, it's going to happen, yippee.
Do wish the booklet were either bigger or printed in a heavier, larger font. As it is, it's a bit tough on these aging eyes. But that is but a quibble.
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Thank you. Its restaurant is well known, too.
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Terry I have read River of Doubt and would highly recommend it.An incredible story of survival.Should be compulsory reading for Americans.
Teddy Roosevelt was in his 50s with already remarkable acheivements when he made
Oops, apologies, not reading carefully.
Sea Worthy Reading -- briny books on and off the voyage
in Ask a Cruise Question
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My thanks for moving this thread to the correct place. I hope readers and browsers here will, er, weigh in even though this CC particular niche doesn't seem as seaworthy as our thread.