Created | Updated Mar 14, 2015
Thousands of books about sailing ships have been written over the years. More are published each year. The books listed here will be limited to those written by people who have actually served on sailing ships.
They contain many first hand account about how the sails are handled and difficulties overcome. Some of these are quite famous, others almost unknown.
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