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Holdings - Biography
The following represents a partial list of our holdings in the above category, and is limited to books (manuscripts, logs, periodicals, artwork, charts, etc are not included). Please note that the term "category" is a very general classification and in no manner should be considered as exclusive.
For example, "Biography" might not contain titles that have been, perhaps arbitrarily, classified as navy, discovery, whaling, etc. Auto-biography is listed separately
A general set of keywords applicable to these titles follows below the table.
| Title |
Author |
Publisher |
ISBN |
1st ed |
| Story of John Smeaton and the Eddystone Light | (ed) | T. Nelson and Sons | | 1889 |
| Sea Years of Joseph Conrad, the | Allen, Jerry | Doubleday and Co | 65-19927 | 1965 |
| FDR - a centenary remembrance | Alsop, Joseph | Viking Press, NY | 0-670-30454-9 | 1982 |
| Champlain | Armstrong, Joe C.W. | MacMillan Company Canada | 0-7715-9501-8 | 1987 |
| Louis Riel | Asfar, Dan and Chodan, Tim | Folklore Publishing | 1-894864-05-0 | 2003 |
| Bligh Notebook, The | Bach, John | Allen and Unwin | 0-04-909032-1 | 1987 |
| Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, The - Volume I | Balfour, Graham | Charles Scribner's Sons | | 1901 |
| Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, The - Volume II | Balfour, Graham | Charles Scribner's Sons | | 1901 |
| Log-Line, The | Beattie, Jessie L. | McClelland and Stewart | 0-7710-1166-0 | 1972 |
| Honourable Company | Bellasis, M | Hollis and Carter, London | | 1952 |
| Memoirs of Admiral Lord Charles Beresford (Vol I) | Beresford, Charles | Little, Brown and Co | | 1914 |
| Memoirs of Admiral Lord Charles Beresford (Vol II) | Beresford, Charles | Little, Brown and Co | | 1914 |
| Winston Churchill, an intimate portrait | Bonham Carter, Violet | Konecky and Konecky | 1-56852-006-9 | 1965 |
| Dear Sarah | Borden Jr., Norman E. | The Bond WheelWright Company, Freeport, Maine, | | 1966 |
| Sir George Etienne Cartier, Bart. His Life and Times. A Political History of Canada from 1814 until 1873 | Boyd, John | MacMillan Co | | 1914 |
| Makers of Canada, The Vol III | Bradley, AG and McIlwraith, Jean N | Morang and Co, Toronto | | 1911 |
| Stephen Decatur | Brady, Cyrus Townsend | Small, Maynard, and Co, Boston | | 1900 |
| Captain Scott and the Antarctic Tragedy | Brent, Peter | Saturday Review Press | 0-8715-0258-7 | 1974 |
| With the Manchester Ship Canal | Bruce, Warren J. | Richardson, Neil | 1-85216-057-8 | 1990 |
| Samual Pepys - the saviour of the Navy | Bryant, Arthur | The Reprint Society | | 1953 |
| Samuel Pepys - the man in the making | Bryant, Arthur | MacMillan Company | | 1933 |
| Adventures of John Wetherell, The | C. S. Forester | Michael Joseph | 0-7181-3844-9 | 1994 |
| Magellan and the First Circumnavigation of the World | Cameron, Ian | Saturday Review Press | 0-8415-0257-9 | 1973 |
| Life and Letters of David Beaty, the | Chalmers, W.S. | Hodder And Stoughton | | 1951 |
| Life of Louis Riel, The | Charlebois, Dr. Peter | People's Publishing | 0-919600-36-0 | 1975 |
| Sea-Borne Thirty years Avoyaging | Connolly, James B. | Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc. | | 1944 |
| Jack Tier | Cooper, James Fenimore | Houghton,Mufflin & Company | | 1884 |
| John A Macdonald the young politician | Creighton, Donald | Macmillan Co of Canada | | 1952 |
| A Sailors Odyssey | Cunningham, Andrew Browne | Dutton and Co. | | 1951 |
| Nagle Journal, The | Dann, John C. (editor) | Weidenfeld and Nicolson | 1-555-84223-2 | 1988 |
| Voyage of the Beagle, The | Darwin, Charles | bantam books | | 1958 |
| Richard Trevithick, the Engineer and the Man | Dickinson, H.W. and Arthur Titley | Cmabridge University Press | | 1934 |
| Duguay-Trouin Memoires | Duguay-Trouin | Editions France-Empire | 2-7048-0637-3 | 1991 |
| I Ran Away To Sea at Fifty | Fahnestock, Mary Sheridan | Harcourt, BraceAnd Company | | 1939 |
| Heroes of the Twentieth Century | Fellowes-Gordon, Ian | Hawthorn Books, NY | 66-22034 | 1966 |
| Cleopatra's Barge | Ferguson, David L. | Little, Brown | 76-16491 | 1976 |
| Heroes from Hakluyt | Finger, Charles J. - Ed. | The Henry Holt Company | | 1928 |
| James Cook Royal Navy | Finkel, George | Hodder and Staughton | 0-340-39137-5 | 1987 |
| Concise Biographical Dictionary | Fitzhugh | Grosset & Dunlap | | 1935 |
| Standing room only | Fowler, Elizabeth | Dodd, Mead & Company | | 1944 |
| Emma - Lady hamilton | Fraser, Flora | Alfred A Knopf | 0-394-53053-5 | 1987 |
| Beaufort of the Admiralty | Friendly, Alfred | Random House | 77-06022 | 1977 |
| Thomas Bone the Sailors' Friend | Gibson, Jesse | The Upper Canada Tract Society | | 1908? |
| Bluenose Skipper | Gillespie, G.J. | Brunswick Press - Publishers | | 1955 |
| Life and Adventures of John Nicol Mariner, The | Grant, Gordon | Farrar and Rinehart, Inc | | 1936 |
| Nansen | Hall, Anna Gertrude | Viking Press | | 1940 |
| Sailor's Life, A | Hartog, Jan de | Harper and Brothers | LoC 55-8991 | 1955 |
| Cochrane - the Life and Exploits of a fighting Captain | Harvey, Robert | Carroll and Graf | 0-7867-0769-0 | 2000 |
| MountBattens, the | Hatch, Alden | Random House | | 1965 |
| Two old sea dogs - Drake and Blake | Hayens, Herbert | Collins | | 1900? |
| Sea Lark, the | Helm, Thomas | A.A. Wyn | 55-10883 | 1955 |
| Captains from Devon | Hill Miller, Helen | Algonquin Books | 0-912697-27-x | 1985 |
| And Tomorrow the Stars | Hill, Kay | Dodd, Mead and Company | 68-27819 | 1968 |
| Churchill speaker of the century | Humes, James C. | Stein and Day | 0-8128-2710-4 | 1980 |
| Eyes of the Navy, The | James, adm Sir William | Methuen and Co | | 1955 |
| Lives of Celebrated Female Sovereigns | Jameson, Anna | Porter and Coates | | 1870 |
| Juet's Journal | Juet, Robert | The New Jersey Historical Society | 0-919001-54-8 | 1959 |
| Book of the motor-boat, The | Karsh | Ziff-Davis | | 1946 |
| Faces of Destiny | Karsh | Ziff-Davis | | 1946 |
| Jack London, a life | Kershaw, Alex | St Martin's Griffin | 0-312-19904-x | 1998 |
| De Gaulle, The Rebel 1890-1944 | Lacouture, Jean | Harvill | 0-00-271288-1 | 1990 |
| De Gaulle, The Ruler 1945-1970 | Lacouture, Jean | Harvill | 0-00-271289-X | 1992 |
| Franklin Happy Voyager | Lamb, G.F. | Ernest Benn Ltd | | 1956 |
| Redcoat Sailor, story of Sir Howard Douglas | Lambert, R.S. | Macmillan of Canada | | 1956 |
| Pyke, the Unknown Genius | Lampe, David | Evans Brothers | | 1959 |
| Count Frontenac, Wolfe and Montcalm | Le Sueur, William D | OxfordUniversity Press | | 1928 |
| Stefansson Ambassador of the North | LeBordais, D.M. | Harvest House | 63-17243 | 1963 |
| Makers of Canada, The Vol X | Lewis, John and Hannay, James | Morang and Co, Toronto | | 1911 |
| Makers of Canada, The Vol VI | Lindsey, Charles and DeCelles, Alfred D. | Morang and Co, Toronto | | 1911 |
| Tom Thomson Mystery, The | Little, William T | McGraw Hill | 07-077355-6 | 1970 |
| Mr. Barrow of the Admiralty | Lloyd, Christopher | Collins | 00-211528-x | 1970 |
| Lord Cochrane | Lloyd, Christopher | Owl Books | 0-8050-5569-X | 1998 |
| Wellington - the years of the sword | Longford, Elizabeth | Harper and Row | 75-95973 | 1969 |
| Makers of Canada, The Vol VII | Longley, JW and Hannay, James and Shortt, Adam | Morang and Co, Toronto | | 1911 |
| Nathaniel Bowditch | Loring, Augustus P. | Newcomen Society | | 1950 |
| Arctic Man, An | Lyall, Ernie | Hurtig Publishers | 0-88830-168-5 | 1979 |
| Boss Tweed | Lynch, Denis Tilden | Boni and Liveright | | 1927 |
| William Dennison Lyon | Lyon, William Dennison | Brookline | private | 1919 |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Mackenzie, Catherine | Houghton Mifflin Co | | 1928 |
| Captain Cook | MacLean, Alistair | Fontana/ Collins | | 1972 |
| Extraordinary Seaman | Mallalieu, J.P.W. | Macmillan Company | 58-8155 | 1958 |
| Last Lion, The - WS Churchill, visions of glory, 1874-1932 | Manchester, William | Little, Brown and Co | 0-316-54503-1 | 1983 |
| A Million Miles In Sail | McCulloch, John Herries | Dodd, Mead & Company | | 1933 |
| Admiral Bayfield: Pioneer Nautical Surveyor | McKenzie, Ruth | Environment Canada | | 1976 |
| Bligh, a True Account of his Mutiny aboard HMS Bounty | McKinney, Sam | International Marine Publishing Co | 0-87742-981-2 | 1988 |
| Watchman against the World | McPherson, Flora | Ryerson Press | | 1962 |
| Some Mariners of France | Minnegerode, Meade | G.P Putnam's Sons | | 1930 |
| Commodore Isaac Hull, USN | Molloy, Leo T | The Hull Book Fund | | 1964 |
| Nelson's Lady Hamilton | Moorhouse, E. Hallam | Musson Book Co Ltd, Toronto | | 1900 |
| Robert Fulton | Morgan, John S. | Mason Charter | 0-88405-438-1 | 1977 |
| Admiral of the Ocean Sea | Morison, Samuel Eliot | Little, Brown and Co | 1-56731-143-1 | 1942 |
| Fisher's Face, or getting to know the Admiral | Morris, Jan | Random House, NY | 0-679-41609-9 | 1995 |
| Crusoes of Sunday Island | Morton, Elsie K | G. Bell and Sons | | 1957 |
| My Father's Son | Mowat, Farley | Key Porter Books Ltd | 1-55013-430-2 | 1992 |
| Canada's Sons and Great Britain in the World War | Nasmith, Col. George G. | Thomas Allen | | 1919 |
| Venture Library, The | Newbolt, Sir Henry | Longmans | | 1931 |
| Paddlewheel Pirate | Newell, Gordon | E.P.Dutton & Co | | 1959 |
| Bronfman Dynasty, the Rothschilds of the New World | Newman, Peter C. | McClelland and Stewart | 0-7710-6758-5 | 1978 |
| Three ships came Sailing | Noble A.H. | Hutchinson | | 1956 |
| So noble a Captain | Parr, Charles McKew | Thomas Y. Crowell | LoC 53-7525 | 1953 |
| So noble a Captain | Parr, Charles McKew | Thomas Y. Crowell | LoC 53-7525 | 1953 |
| Shorter Pepys, The | Pepys, Latham, Samuel, Robert (editor) | University of California | 0-520-03426-0 | 1985 |
| Set of the Sails, The | Pitcher, Arthur R | Creative Publishers, NFL | 0-920021-71-9 | 1989 |
| Henry Hudson | Powys, Llewelyn | The Bodley Head | | 1927 |
| Journals of Hezekiah Prince Jr | Prince, Hezekiah | Crown Publishers | 65-24321 | 1965 |
| Life of Captain Robert Halpin, The | Rees, Jim | Dee-Jay Publications | 0-9519239-0-0 | 1992 |
| Ran away to sea | Reid, Capt Mayne | Private (Ticknor and Fields) | | 1859 |
| Kennedys at War, The | Renehan, Edward J | Doubleday | 0-385-50165-x | 2002 |
| Officially Dead | Reynolds, Quentin | Random House | | 1945 |
| Winston Churchill | Reynolds, Quentin | Random House | 63-7831 | 1963 |
| Lord Riddell's War Diary | Riddell, Lord | Ivor Nicholson and Watson | | 1933 |
| Captain Kidd | Ritchie, Robert C. | Barnes & Noble | 0-7607-0840-1 | 1998 |
| Sir Richard Grenville of the Revenge | Rowse, A.L. | Jonathan Cape | | 1937 |
| From the Forecastle to the Cabin | Samuels, Samuel S. Captain | Harper and Brothers, | | 1887 |
| Eye of the Wind, The | Scott, Peter | Hodder and Stoughton | | 1961 |
| Life of John Quincy Adams | Seward, William H. | Henry T. Coates | | 1887 |
| Heritage of the Bounty, The | Shapiro, Harry L | Simon and Schuster | | 1936 |
| Berlin Diary | Shirer, William L | Alfred A. Knopf | | 1941 |
| Sailing Alone | Slocum, Joshua | Penguin | 0-14-043736-3 | 1999 |
| Captain Joshua Slocum | Slocum, Victor | Sheridan House | 0-911378-04-9 | 1950 |
| Prime Ministers of Queen Victoria | Smith, G. Barnett | George Routledge and Sons | | 1888 |
| Kennedy | Sorenson, Theodore C | Harper and Row | 65-14660 | 1965 |
| Alone at Sea | Spencer, Ann | Doubleday Canada Ltd. | 0-385-25720-1 | 1998 |
| Steered By the Falling Stars | Spurr, Daniel | Ragged Mountain Press | 0-87742-332-6 | 1992 |
| Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution, The | Stark, James H. | James H. Stark, Boston | | 1910 |
| Uncommon Sailor, An | Street, Lucie | St Martins Press | 0-312-01526-7 | 1988 |
| Robert Fulton and the Clermont | Sutcliffe, Alice Crary | The Century Co, NY | | 1909 |
| John Roach - Maritime Entrepreneur | Swann, Leonard A. | United States Naval Institute | 65-28014 | 1965 |
| Search for Captain Slocum, The | Teller, Walter Magnes | Charles Scribner's Sons | 56-9879 | 1956 |
| Count Luckner the Sea Devil | Thomas, Lowell | Garden City Publishing Co. | | 1927 |
| SeaDevil's Fo'c'sle. The | Thomas, Lowell | Garden city publishing Co. | | 1929 |
| Young Boswell | Tinker, Chauncey Brewster | Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston | | 1922 |
| Raft, The | Trumbull, Robert | Henry Holt and Company | | 1942 |
| Life on the Mississippi | Twain, Mark | New english library limited | | 1961 |
| Story of Louis Riel, The | unknown | Coles | | 1885 |
| Van Loon's Lives | van Loon, Hendrik Willem | Simon and Schuster, NY | | 1942 |
| Captain Cook | Villiers, Alan | Penguin books | | 1967 |
| Lure Of The Labador Wild, The | Wallace, Dillon | Nimbus Publishing | 0-921054-58-0 | 1990 |
| Commandore Perry's | Wallach, Sidney | Coward-McCann, Inc. | | 1952 |
| Cunningham of Hyndhope: Admiral of the Fleet | Warner, Oliver | John Murray | | 1967 |
| John F. Kennedy | White, Nancy Bean | Bullseye | 0-679-83601-2 | 1965 |
| William Dampier | Wilkinson, Clennell | The Bodley Head | | 1929 |
| Matthew Fontaine Maury, scientist of the sea | Williams, Frances Leigh | Rutgers University Press | 63-10564 | 1963 |
| Mountbatten | Ziegler, Philip | Knopf | 0-394-52098-X | 1985 |
| Personal Diary of Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten | Ziegler, Philip (ed) | Collins | 0-00-217607-6 | 1988 |
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