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Ship's Library » Books »
This is where you'll find the books in the Ship's Library onboard the Maggie B.
What We Are Reading en route to Chile
Hannah - Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Robert - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Kath - A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Frank - Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay
What We Are Reading en route to Tahiti
Frank: In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare
Ben: At Risk: A Novel by Stella Rimington (ex-Head of MI-5)
Theresa: Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Hannah: All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
What We Are Reading en route to NZ
Frank - Cochrane: Britannia’s Sea Wolf by Donald Thomas
Owen - The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
Theresa - The Odessey Homer, the Fagles translation
Hannah - The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby
Bori - For Esme with Love and Squalor by J.D. Salinger
On the way to Tasmania
Books we are reading: Hannah is reading “Pride and Prejudice,” Bori — “The Soul in Tibet,” Owen — a Fremantle Historical Society publication called “The Globalization of Containerization,” and Frank — “Mayflower - Courage, Community and War.”
Recent DVD’s we have enjoyed off watch include “Cold Mountain” and “The Prairie Home Companion.”
En route to Perth
Hannah is reading “To the Ends of the Earth — Journeys of the Great Explorers” by Balchin; Bori is reading “Tibetben a Lelek” (the Soul in Tibet) by Ferenc; Owen is reading Jared Diamond’s “Collapse;” and Frank is reading “Heavy Weather Guide;” “Weather for the Mariner” and the famous section 3909 from Bowditch that starts: “The passage of a tropical cyclone at sea is an experience not soon to be forgotten…”
American Sea Writing
I just finished a lovely book American Sea Writing edited by Peter Neill. It was given to the boat by my friend and future shipmate, Robert Farrar. It has pieces by obvious authors like Melville, Dana and Twain, but also lovely pieces by James Fenimore Cooper, James Agee, Eugene O’Neill, Langston Hughes and may other less likely. Well worth it!
En route to Fernando de Noronha: Pamuk, Steinbeck & “Le Grande Secret”
The Captain is reading My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk. Mounira and Nadia are reading Steinbeck’s A l’Est d’Eden aloud to each other and Valentine just finished “Le Grande Secret” which is about a great secret (an immortality drug).
En route to Brazil: McMurtry’s newest, Patrick O’Brien, & Pierre Desproges
The Captain just finished Telegraph Days by Larry McMurtry — perhaps partially for the pleasure of contemplating dry, dusty Tombstone, Arizona. Now I’m on my third re-read of Patrick O’Brian’s Blue at the Mizzen — trying to alternate sailing books with their land cousins. Nadia, Mounira and Valentine are reading aloud Pierre Desproges Chroniques de la haine ordinaire.
Sailing Alone Around the World and The Voyage of the Libredade by Joshua Slocum
Here’s the book we were talking about on Friday…