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.