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Another of the rare human documents of blue water. It describes the most
adventurous period of activity, a century ago.

Captain Arthur H. Clark, "The Clipper Ship Era" (1910). A thrilling,
spray-swept, true story. Far and away the best account of the clipper,
by a man who was an officer of one in his youth.

Robert Bennet Forbes, "Notes on Ships of the Past" (1888). Random facts
and memories of a famous Boston ship-owner. It is valuable for its
records of noteworthy passages.

Captain John D. Whidden, "Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days"
(1908). The entertaining reminiscences of a veteran shipmaster.

Captain A. W. Nelson, "Yankee Swanson: Chapters from a Life at Sea"
(1913). Another of the true romances, recommended for a lively sense of
humor and a faithful portrayal of life aboard a windjammer.

There are many other personal narratives, some of them privately printed
and very old, which may be found in the libraries. Typical of them is
"A Journal of the Travels and Sufferings of Daniel Saunders" (1794), in
which a young sailor relates his adventures after shipwreck on the coast
of Arabia.

Among general works the following are valuable:

J. Grey Jewell, "Among Our Sailors" (1874). A plea for more humane
treatment of American seamen, with many instances on shocking
brutalities as reported to the author, who was a United States Consul.

E. Keble Chatterton, "Sailing Ships: The Story of their Development"
(1909). An elaborate history of the development of the sailing vessel
from the earliest times to the modern steel clipper.

W. S. Lindsay, "History of Merchant Shipping and Ancient Commerce," 4
vols. (1874-76). An English work, notably fair to the American marine,
and considered authoritative.

Douglas Owen, "Ocean Trade and Shipping" (1914). An English economist
explains the machinery of maritime trade and commerce.

William Wood, "All Afloat." In "The Chronicles of Canada Series."
Glasgow, Brook and Co., Toronto, 1914.

J. B. McMaster, "The Life and Times of Stephen Girard, Mariner and
Merchant," 2 vols. (1918).

The relation of governmental policy to the merchant marine is discussed
by various writers:

David A. Wells, "Our Merchant Marine: How It Rose, Increased, Became
Great, Declined, and Decayed" (1882). A political treatise in defense of
a protective policy.

William A. Bates, "American Marine: The Shipping Question in History
and Politics" (1892); "American Navigation: The Political