Small Boats on Green Waters : A Treasury of Good Reading on Coastal and Inland Cruising

Introduction 9 The Sambre to the Oise: The Oise in Flood, from An Inland Voyage, 1877 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 13 From The Survival of the Bark Canoe,1975 JOHN MCPHEE 18 On the Meuse, from A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of Europe, 1866 JOHN MACGREGOR 28 Life During Wartime, from The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow: A Mirror Odyssey from North Wales to the Black Sea, 2002 A.J. MACKINNON 41 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, from The Wind in the Willows, 1908 KENNETH GRAHAME 49 Art Is All of a Ship But the Wood, from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, 1849 HENRY DAVID THOREAU 59 We Agree That We Are Overworked, and Need Rest, from Three Men in a Boat, 1889 JEROME K. JEROME 62 Rowboat, 2006 PETER H. SPECTRE 73 The Cruise of the Dolphin, from The Story of a Bad Boy, 1870 THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH 87 Shantyboats and Cranes, from Four Months in a Sneak-Box, 1879 NATHANIEL H. BISHOP 99 Rudy, from The Journals of Constant Waterman, 2005 MATTHEW GOLDMAN 110 In Need of a Breeze, from The Journals of Constant Waterman, 2006 MATTHEW GOLDMAN 113 Down the Susquehanna in a Canoe, from Athletics and Manly Sport, 1890 JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY 116 Stormbound on Michikamats, from A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador 1908 MRS. LEONIDAS HUBBARD, JUNIOR 125 Auroras, from Travels in Alaska, 1915 JOHN MUIR 138 Time on the River, 2006 BRIAN ANDERSON 144 First Cruise, from The River at Green Knowe, 1959 LUCY M. BOSTON 155 On the Turbulent Death of Blackbeard the Pirate, from A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, 1724 CAPTAIN CHARLES JOHNSON (DANIEL DEFOE) 163 The Battle of Lake Champlain, from The Naval War of 1812, 1882 THEODORE ROOSEVELT 173 Letters to Jefferson, 1803 MERIWETHER LEWIS 184 A Cub-Pilot's Experience, from Life on the Mississippi, 1883 MARK TWAIN 194 The Johnboat, from Shantyboat: A River Way of Life, 1953 HARLAN HUBBARD 206 The Spy, from The Riddle of the Sands, 1903 ERSKINE CHILDERS 212 The Zuider Zee, from The Falcon on the Baltic, 1888 E.F. KNIGHT 223 The Ship and the Man, from Racundra's First Cruise, 1923 ARTHUR RANSOME 239 Swallows in the Dark, from Swallows and Amazons, 1930 ARTHUR RANSOME 244 Building Spray, from Sailing Alone Around the World, 1899 JOSHUA SLOCUM 250 The Cruise of the Mascot, from The Boy. Me, and the Cat: Life Aboard a Small Boat, from Massachusetts to Florida and Back in 1912 HENRY PLUMMER 254 Northward to Seymour Inlet, from The Curve of Time, 1968 M. WYLIE BLANCHET 259 Pleistocene Creek, from How to Build a Tin Canoe, 1999 ROBB WHITE JR. 266 The 200 Millionaire, 1932 WESTON MARTYR 273 Finding Princess, from Princess New York, 1953 JOE RICHARDS 291 The North Sea, from Hills and the Sea, 1906 HILAIRE BELLOC 302 Naming and First Cruise, from The Thousand Dollar Yacht, 1967 ANTHONY BAILEY 308 Farley Mowat Buys a Boat, from The Boat Who Wouldn't Float, 1969 FARLEY MOWAT 317 Chartering, from An Old Gaffer's Tale, 1984 MARTIN EVE 325 Pierheads in Bad Weather, from Last of the Sailormen, 2001 BOB ROBERTS 331 Stand Up for Short Voyages, from Short Voyages: Forays Along the Littoral, 1985 STEPHEN JONES 338 Some Related Websites 343