 | The Schooner: Its Design and Development from 1600 to the Present by David R. MacGregor
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $15.50 A history of the craft.
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 | Shipyard in Maine: Percy & Small and the Great Schooners by Ralph Linwood Snow
Buy used from: $35.00 An absolutely fantastic work, detailing the building of schooners, cowritten by a schooner captain.
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 | A Passage in Time: Along the Coast of Maine by Schooner by Peter H. Spectre
Buy used from: $6.95 Eminently readable chronicle of a contemporary voyage on a Maine passenger schooner.
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 | Windjammer Watching on the Coast of Maine: A Guide to the Famous Windjammer Fleet and Other Traditional Sailing Vessels by Virginia L. Thorndike
Buy used from: $3.40 A "who's who" of the Down East passenger schooners, with ship specifications, histories, photos.
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 | The American Fishing Schooners: 1825-1935 by Howard I. Chapelle
Buy new: $40.00 / Used from: $31.99 Detailed and useful resource, well illustrated.
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 | Down to the Sea: The Fishing Schooners of Gloucester by Joseph E. Garland
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $14.50 A lovely book about the historic Gloucester schooners.
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 | Schooners (Great Lakes Album Series) by Robert Shipley
Buy used from: $30.00 About Great Lakes schooners, with wonderful pictures.
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 | The colonial schooner, 1763-1775 by Harold M Hahn
Buy used from: $70.00 Somewhat dry reading, but well worth finding a used copy (it's currently out of print), especially for completists.
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 | The Port of Gloucester (New England Landmarks) by Josh Reynolds
Buy used from: $1.53 Beautiful photographs and text about Gloucester, Massachusetts, and its historic schooners.
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 | American Sailing Ships: Their Plans and History by Charles G. Davis
Buy used from: $1.99 Includes a chapter on fishing schooners.
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 | Captains Courageous (Signet Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
Buy used from: $0.01 The We're Here is a schooner, so this counts! And it's a beautiful book.
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 | Moontide by Erin Patrick
Buy new: $37.95 / Used from: $2.96 A novel about a haunted Maine windjammer that should appeal to anyone with a love of historic schooners and wooden boats.
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 | The Boat Who Wouldn't Float by Farley Mowat
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 A delightful, hilarious book chronicling the author's misadventures with a beloved but quite cranky ship.
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 | Coastal Maine: A Maritime History by Roger F. Duncan
Buy used from: $16.20 Much detailed information about the schooners Maine is famous for.
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