What is your favorite Sailing book?

[mintcakekeith]

once is enough. Miles Smeaton .
sailing alone around the world . Slocum
Around the world single handed. Harry Pidgeon
The Seven little sisters,William Willis

and not sailing but related.
Fatal Passage ,Ken Mc Googan.(Arctic)
The worst journey in the world , Apsley Cherry Garrad.(antarctic)

[wind_magic]

Not all books, but ...

• Nice big globe to spin, look at, and ponder, and a piece of thread so you can measure distances one place to another. The bigger the globe, the better.
• Lots of big charts of exotic places, far away reefs, quiet little islands ...
• Huge world atlas filled with small villages, mountain ranges, valleys, and other places you've never seen or heard of.
• Copies of ancient maps showing dusty roads, places that have been renamed, political borders and countries long forgotten, ...
• Star charts and practical astronomy books, binoculars, and a sextant ...
• Bowditch