Book recommendations

[size4riggerboots]

Please only post any reading recommendations for aspiring cadets here. Note: Please adhere to the site's policy of not distributing copyrighted material!! If you want to find any of these books use your google-fu

So You Want To Go To Sea by Captain Michael Lloyd. Pub 2011. (If you google it you should be able to find a PDF copy!)

Deep Sea and Foreign Going by Rose George. Pub 2013. Available on Amazon (Such a good read, and PACKED with information)

[moose]

Introduction to marine engineering 2nd edition by D.Taylor

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Introduction-Marine-Engineering-D-Taylor/dp/0750625309/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394233053&sr=8-1&keywords=introduction+to+marine+engineering

A bit pricy, but worth a read and pdf available with a google search.

[jacob44]

A Captains Duty - Richard Phillips with Stephan Talty
He doesn't just talk about the hijacking, but his career, brilliant read. Would also recommend Deep Sea and Foreign Going enjoying it so far.

[Lewis]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ocean-Boulevard-Adventures-Exhilarating-Journey/dp/1840245905

Great book don't worry being a cadet is not as extreme as this any more

[condeh]

I'll echo Lewis's comment above, great book, highly amusing. The sequel isn't quite as good, but it's all relative, as the first is such a cracker.

As far as 'salty' books go, I would recommend (I can't remember what one is called, so frustrating!):

Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast
Charlie Connelly

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing

Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad

South: The Story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 Expedition
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

The Road to Russia: Arctic Convoys 1942-45
Bernard Edwards

[condeh]

Finally remembered it, was losing my mind.

Redburn: His First Voyage
Herman Melville

[Rootsea]

I'm currently reading 'A History of the British Merchant Navy' by Captain Richard Woodman. It is published in five books:
1 - Neptune's Trident
2 - Britannia's Realm
3 - Masters Under God
4 - More Days, More Dollars
5 - Fiddler's Green

Sounds like heavy academic stuff I know, but it is actually very good. Well written, often funny and pretty easy to read.

[alistairuk]

MAYDAY: The Perils of the Waves by Nicholas Faith - it accompanied a TV series that was on channel 4 back in 1998, an interesting book.

[SCM]

@Rootsea I've been trying to get hold of those books for a while now through my local library, they look fantastic but they're dead expensive if you buy them.

[Ray]

You can get some of them of amazon in ebook/pdf form for a few quid.
I've loaded a few on to my kindle

[Midge]

ebay worth a look for books sometimes, get the odd bargain.