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Most Used Titles in Class G521 -- G539

Rank TITLE Lib Uses Year
1 A general history of the pyrates. Edited by Manuel Schonhorn ASU 49 1972
2 The pirates / by Douglas Botting and the editors of Time-Life books ASU 39 1978
3 The discovery of the Titanic / by Robert D. Ballard with Rick Archbold introduction by Walter Lo ASU 37 1987
4 Titanic, destination disaster : the legends and the reality / John P. Eaton & Charles A. Haas WCU 35 1987
5 Titanic, destination disaster : the legends and the reality / John P. Eaton & Charles A. Haas ASU 34 1996
6 Rum, sodomy, and the lash : piracy, sexuality, and masculine identity / Hans Turley UNCA 31 1999
7 Under the black flag : the romance and the reality of life among the pirates / David Cordingly UNCA 30 1996
8 A night to remember. Illustrated with photos ASU 29 1956
9 Titanic legacy : disaster as media event and myth / Paul Heyer ASU 28 1995
10 Piracy was a business ASU 28 1953
11 The pirates / by Douglas Botting and the editors of Time-Life books WCU 26 1978
12 The last days of the Titanic : photographs and mementos of the tragic maiden voyage / E.E. O'Donne ASU 24 1997
13 The Bermuda Triangle / by Adi-Kent Thomas Jeffrey ASU 24 1975
14 The Wreck of the Titanic foretold? / edited by Martin Gardner ASU 24 1986
15 Titanic : legacy of the world's greatest ocean liner / by Susan Wels ASU 24 1997
16 The Bermuda Triangle / Charles Berlitz with the collaboration of J. Manson Valentine ASU 24 1974
17 The night lives on / by Walter Lord ASU 23 1986
18 Pirate / written by Richard Platt photographed by Tina Chambers UNCA 23 1994
19 The Bermuda Triangle / Charles Berlitz with the collaboration of J. Manson Valentine UNCA 22 1974
20 The Bermuda Triangle mystery--solved / Lawrence David Kusche ASU 22 1975
21 Titanic voices : memories from the fateful voyage / written, compiled and edited by Donald Hyslop, ASU 21 1997
22 Titanic legacy : disaster as media event and myth / Paul Heyer WCU 21 1995
23 Patterns of pillage : a geography of Caribbean-based piracy in Spanish America, 1536-1718 / Peter UNCA 21 2000
24 Exploring the Titanic / by Robert D. Ballard edited by Patrick Crean illustrations of the Tita WCU 21 1988
25 Captain Kidd and the war against the pirates / Robert C. Ritchie WCU 21 1986
26 The Titanic and the Californian WCU 20 1966
27 The pirate's handbook / Margarette Lincoln WCU 19 1995
28 The Wreck of the Titanic foretold? / edited by Martin Gardner UNCA 19 1986
29 Adrift : seventy-six days lost at sea / Steven Callahan illustrated by the author ASU 19 1986
30 A pirate's life for me! : a day aboard a pirate ship / Julie Thompson and Brownie Macintosh illu WCU 19 1996
31 Under the black flag : the romance and the reality of life among the pirates / David Cordingly ASU 18 1995
32 Kon-Tiki: across the Pacific by raft. Translated by F. H. Lyon ASU 18 1950
33 A night to remember. Illustrated with photos UNCA 18 1956
34 The Titanic : end of a dream / Wyn Craig Wade UNCA 17 1986
35 Titanic : a journey through time / John P. Eaton and Charles A. Haas foreword by William MacQuit ASU 17 1999
36 Patterns of pillage : a geography of Caribbean-based piracy in Spanish America, 1536-1718 / Peter ASU 17 2000
37 In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex / Nathaniel Philbrick WCU 17 2000
38 A nation of pirates : English piracy in its heyday / [by] C. M. Senior WCU 17 1976
39 The Titanic story : hard choices, dangerous decisions / Stephen Cox UNCA 16 1999
40 The night lives on / by Walter Lord UNCA 16 1986
41 The discovery of the Titanic / by Robert D. Ballard with Rick Archbold introduction by Walter Lo UNCA 16 1987
42 Down with the old canoe : a cultural history of the Titanic disaster / Steven Biel WCU 16 1996
43 The sea hunters / Clive Cussler & Craig Dirgo ASU 15 1996
44 Titanic survivor : the newly discovered memoirs of Violet Jessop who survived both the Titanic and ASU 15 1997
45 Pirates and piracy / David Reinhardt ASU 15 1997
46 Inside the Titanic / illustrated by Ken Marschall text by Hugh Brewster WCU 15 1997
47 A night to remember [sound recording] / by Walter Lord ASU 15 1995
48 What if you met a pirate? : an historical voyage of seafaring speculation / written & illustrated UNCA 14 2004
49 Titanic : fortune & fate : catalogue from the Mariners' Museum Exhibition / Beverly McMillan, Stan WCU 14 1998
50 Rough water [sound recording] : stories of survival from the sea / edited by Clint Willis ASU 14 1999
51 Return to Titanic : a new look at the world's most famous lost ship / Robert D. Ballard with Micha WCU 14 2004
52 Patterns of pillage : a geography of Caribbean-based piracy in Spanish America, 1536-1718 / Peter WCU 14 2000
53 Daring pirate women / Anne Wallace Sharp WCU 14 2002
54 A night to remember / Walter Lord WCU 14 1976
55 The adventurer / Paul Zweig WCU 13 1974
56 The loss of the ship Essex, sunk by a whale / Thomas Nickerson, Owen Chase, and others edited wi UNCA 13 2000
57 Great shipwrecks and castaways : authentic accounts of disasters at sea / edited, with an introduc UNCA 13 1990
58 True tales of buried treasure UNCA 11 1960
59 The global soul : jet lag, shopping malls, and the search for home / Pico Iyer ASU 11 2000
60 The lost fleet : the discovery of a sunken armada from the golden age of piracy / Barry Clifford ASU 10 2002
61 Pirates : robbers of the high seas / Gail Gibbons WCU 10 1993
62 Pirates : the story of buccaneers, brigands, corsairs, and their piracy on the high seas from the UNCA 10 1995
63 Pirate laureate: the life & legends of Captain Kidd ASU 10 1947
64 Pirates! : brigands, buccaneers, and privateers in fact, fiction, and legend / Jan Rogoziński ASU 10 1995
65 Eastland, legacy of the Titanic / George W. Hilton UNCA 10 1995
66 Titanic / by Simon Adams UNCA 9 1999
67 The pirates' who's who giving particulars of the lives & deaths of the pirates & buccaneers ASU 8 1968
68 The Titanic in print and on screen : an annotated guide to books, films, television shows, and oth ASU 8 2005
69 Sinkings, salvages, and shipwrecks. [by] Robert F. Burgess ASU 8 1970
70 Ghost liners : exploring the world's greatest lost ships / by Robert D. Ballard and Rick Archbold WCU 8 1998
71 Finding the Titanic / by Robert D. Ballard with Nan Froman paintings by Ken Marschall WCU 8 1993
72 A general history of the robberies & murders of the most notorious pirates / Captain Charles Johns ASU 8 2002
73 The fateful voyage of Captain Kidd ASU 7 1955
74 Ship of gold in the deep blue sea / Gary Kinder ASU 7 1998
75 Shipwreck / written by Richard Platt photographed by Alex Wilson and Tina Chambers WCU 7 1997
76 Piracy & plunder : a murderous business / Milton Meltzer illustrated by Bruce Waldman UNCA 7 2001
77 Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the whaleship Essex. With supplem UNCA 7 1963
78 In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex / Nathaniel Philbrick ASU 7 2000
79 Kon-Tiki: across the Pacific by raft. Translated by F. H. Lyon WCU 6 1950
80 Exploring the Titanic / by Robert D. Ballard edited by Patrick Crean illustrations of the Tita WCU 6 1988
81 Dove / by Robin Lee Graham with Derek L.T. Gill WCU 6 1973
82 A Viking voyage : in which an unlikely crew of adventurers attempts an epic journey to the New Wor UNCA 6 2000
83 The search for the Atocha / by Eugene Lyon WCU 5 1979
84 Titanic : a night remembered / Stephanie Barczewski ASU 5 2004
85 The story of a shipwrecked sailor : who drifted on a life raft for ten days without food or water, ASU 5 1986
86 The Ra expeditions. Translated by Patricia Crampton ASU 5 1971
87 Sea fights and shipwrecks true tales of the seven seas UNCA 5 1955
88 Sunken ships & treasure / written & illustrated with photographs by John Christopher Fine UNCA 5 1986
89 Diving for pleasure and treasure. With photos. by Walter Bennett UNCA 5 1960
90 Under the black flag : the romance and the reality of life among the pirates / David Cordingly ASU 4 2006
91 The voyages of Joshua Slocum ASU 4 1958
92 Seamen all, by E. Keble Chatterton UNCA 4 1924
93 Richard Knight's treasure! : the true story of his extraordinary quest for Captain Kidd's cache / UNCA 4 1986
94 Pirates : a history / Tim Travers WCU 4 2007
95 Limbo of the lost actual stories of sea mysteries ASU 4 1973
96 In search of new horizons : epic tales of travel and exploration / Robert B. Downs UNCA 4 1978
97 Gold & silver, silver & gold : tales of hidden treasure / collected and retold by Alvin Schwartz WCU 4 1988
98 Vagrant Viking : my life and adventures / Peter Freuchen translated from the Danish by Johan Ham UNCA 3 1953
99 Sunken treasure / by Gail Gibbons WCU 3 1990
100 Sinkings, salvages, and shipwrecks. [by] Robert F. Burgess WCU 3 1970
101 Survive the savage sea ASU 3 1973
102 Kon-Tiki across the Pacific by raft. Translated by F. H. Lyon WCU 3 1953
103 Kon-Tiki and I illustrations with text, begun on the Pacific on board the raft "Kon-Tiki" and com ASU 3 1951
104 Kon-Tiki: across the Pacific by raft. Translated by F. H. Lyon UNCA 3 1950
105 Haunted treasures / by Dale Titler illustrations by Robert Jenney maps by the author WCU 3 1976
106 Ghost fleet : the sunken ships of Bikini Atoll / James P. Delgado UNCA 3 1996
107 Great shipwrecks and castaways authentic accounts of adventures at sea WCU 3 1952
108 Great shipwrecks of the Pacific Coast / Robert C. Belyk ASU 3 2001
109 Danger is my business, by John D. Craig WCU 3 1938
110 Vanishing point WCU 2 1961
111 The Ra expeditions. Translated by Patricia Crampton WCU 2 1971
112 The story of a shipwrecked sailor : who drifted on a life raft for ten days without food or water, WCU 2 1986
113 Titanic : a night remembered / Stephanie Barczewski UNCA 2 2004
114 The venturesome voyages of Captain Voss. With an introduction by Richard Hughes WCU 2 1955
115 Tragedy on the high seas : a history of shipwrecks / Kenneth Hudson and Ann Nicholls WCU 2 1979
116 The wreck of the Medusa : the most famous sea disaster of the nineteenth century / Jonathan Miles ASU 2 2007
117 The world's greatest escapes WCU 2 1967
118 The world's greatest escapes ASU 2 1967
119 Testosterone planet : true stories from a man's world / collected and edited by Sean O'Reilly, Lar ASU 2 1999
120 Sweat of the sun, tears of the moon : a chronicle of an Incan treasure / Peter Lourie WCU 2 1998
121 Ship of gold in the deep blue sea / Gary Kinder WCU 2 1998
122 Narratives of shipwrecks and disasters, 1586-1860. Edited with an introd. and checklist of titles, WCU 2 1974
123 Mighty Fitz : the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald / Michael Schumacher WCU 2 2005
124 In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex / Nathaniel Philbrick UNCA 2 2000
125 Grands corsaires. [Préf. par Georges Blond ASU 2 1969
126 Ghost ship of Diamond Shoals : the mystery of the Carroll A. Deering : a nonfiction novel / Bland WCU 2 2002
127 Flying the black flag : a brief history of piracy / Alfred S. Bradford illustrated by Pamela M. ASU 2 2007
128 Cracker hash the story of an apprentice in sail WCU 2 1955
129 Batavia's graveyard / Mike Dash WCU 2 2002
130 You can find a fortune a finder's guide to some of the world's missing treasures - large and smal ASU 1 1966
131 Treasure hunt : shipwreck, diving, and the quest for treasure in an age of heroes / Peter Earle ASU 1 2008
132 They weren't all angels. Translated by Humphrey Hare UNCA 1 1965
133 The invisible hook : the hidden economics of pirates / Peter T. Leeson UNCA 1 2009
134 The search for sunken treasure : exploring the world's great shipwrecks / Robert F. Marx with Jeni WCU 1 1993
135 Treasure of the Atocha / by R. Duncan Mathewson III foreword by Mel Fisher with photographs by ASU 1 1986
136 The life of my choice / Wilfred Thesiger ASU 1 1988
137 The voyage of the Sierra Sagrada across the Atlantic in a canoe ASU 1 1969
138 The serpent's coil. Drawings and design: F. Newfeld ASU 1 1962
139 Racing through paradise : a Pacific passage / William F. Buckley, Jr. photographs by Christopher UNCA 1 1987
140 Relato de un náufrago ... / Gabriel García Márquez ASU 1 1970
141 Racing through paradise : a Pacific passage / William F. Buckley, Jr. photographs by Christopher WCU 1 1987
142 Quelch's gold : piracy, greed, and betrayal in colonial New England / Clifford Beal WCU 1 2007
143 Pearl diver : adventuring over and under southern seas / by Victor Berge and Henry Wysham Lanier UNCA 1 1930
144 On the trail of the Feathered Serpent WCU 1 1974
145 Man against nature tales of adventure and exploration ASU 1 1954
146 Manifest perdition : shipwreck narrative and the disruption of empire / Josiah Blackmore WCU 1 2002
147 Lost! / Thomas Thompson ASU 1 1975
148 Lost at sea / A.A. Hoehling ASU 1 1999
149 Great shipwrecks and castaways authentic accounts of adventures at sea ASU 1 1952
150 Great escapes and rescues : an encyclopedia / Roger Howard ASU 1 1999
151 Expedition Whydah : the story of the world's first excavation of a pirate treasure ship and the ma ASU 1 1999
152 Eccentric islands : travels real and imaginary / Bill Holm ASU 1 2000
153 Dead men tell no tales : the lives and legends of the pirate Charles Gibbs / Joseph Gibbs WCU 1 2007
154 Captain Cousteau's underwater treasury / edited by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and James Dugan ASU 1 1959
155 Blackbeard, the pirate king : several yearns detailing the legends, myths, and real-life adventure WCU 1 2006
156 A night to remember ASU 1
157 Airborne : a sentimental journey / William F. Buckley, Jr ASU 1 1976
158 Airborne : a sentimental journey / William F. Buckley, Jr WCU 1 1976
159 Atlantic high : a celebration / William F. Buckley, Jr. photographs by Christopher Little UNCA 1 1982
160 Alone against the Arctic / Anthony Dalton WCU 1 2007
161 Yankee skippers to the rescue a record of gallant rescues on the north Atlantic by American seame WCU 1969
162 Wreck of the Carl D. : a true story of loss, survival, and rescue at sea / Michael Schumacher WCU 2008
163 Vagrant Viking : my life and adventures / Peter Freuchen translated from the Danish by Johan Ham WCU 1953
164 Valiant vagabonds WCU 1968
165 Vagrant Viking : my life and adventures / Peter Freuchen translated from the Danish by Johan Ham ASU 1953
166 The English adventurers WCU 1968
167 The Ulysses factor the exploring instinct in man, by J. R. L. Anderson WCU 1970
168 The seven lost trails of Africa being a record of sundry expeditions, new and old, in search of b WCU 1930
169 The strange last voyage of Donald Crowhurst [by] Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall WCU 1970
170 The cradle of the deep / by Joan Lowell illustrated by Kurt Wiese ASU 1929
171 The Ra expeditions. Translated by Patricia Crampton UNCA 1971
172 The cap'n's wife, the diary of Didama Kelley Doane of West Harwich, Massachusetts, wife of Cap'n U ASU 1946
173 Treasure hunter's guide / by Robert I. Nesmith and John S. Potter, Jr ASU 1975
174 Treasure hunt : shipwreck, diving, and the quest for treasure in an age of heroes / Peter Earle WCU 2008
175 The story of a shipwrecked sailor : who drifted on a life raft for ten days without food or water, UNCA 1986
176 The cradle of the deep / Joan Lowell illustrated by Kurt Wiese WCU 1929
177 Sailing to freedom [by] Voldemar Veedam and Carl B. Wall ASU 1952
178 Sea drift : rafting adventures in the wake of Kon-Tiki / P.J. Capelotti illustrated by C.L. Devl WCU 2001
179 Sea drift : rafting adventures in the wake of Kon-Tiki / P.J. Capelotti illustrated by C.L. Devl ASU 2001
180 Southern treasures / Nina and Bill Anderson ASU 1987
181 Sons of Sinbad an account of sailing with the Arabs in their dhows, in the Red Sea, around the co WCU 1969
182 Sons of Sinbad an account of sailing with the Arabs in their dhows, in the Red Sea, around the co ASU 1969
183 Seamen all / by E. Keble Chatterton WCU 19
184 Revenge of the whale : the true story of the whaleship Essex / Nathaniel Philbrick WCU 2002
185 Return to Treasure Island and the search for Captain Kidd / Barry Clifford with Paul Perry ASU 2003
186 Rolling stone the life and adventures of Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore, by Lowell Thomas illustration ASU 1931
187 Perilous adventures : or remarkable instances of courage, perseverance, and suffering / by R. A. D WCU 1900
188 Pacific lady : the first woman to sail solo across the world's largest ocean / Sharon Sites Adams ASU 2008
189 Perils of the Atlantic : steamship disasters, 1850 to the present / William Henry Flayhart III ASU 2003
190 More heroes of modern adventure, by Thomas Charles Bridges and Hubert Hessell Tiltman WCU 1969
191 Minerva Reef / by Olaf Ruhen line drawings by Clem Seale UNCA 1964
192 Many a midnight ship : true stories of Great Lakes shipwrecks / Mark Bourrie ASU 2005
193 Marooned : being a narrative of the sufferings and adventures of Captain Charles H. Barnard, embra UNCA 1979
194 Man against nature tales of adventure and exploration WCU 1954
195 Lost gold of the Republic : the remarkable quest for the greatest shipwreck treasure of the Civil WCU 2005
196 In search of new horizons : epic tales of travel and exploration / Robert B. Downs WCU 1978
197 Ideology of adventure : studies in modern consciousness, 1100-1750 / Michael Nerlich translation UNCA 1987
198 Ideology of adventure : studies in modern consciousness, 1100-1750 / Michael Nerlich translation UNCA 1987
199 Ideology of adventure : studies in modern consciousness, 1100-1750 / Michael Nerlich translation ASU 1987
200 Ideology of adventure : studies in modern consciousness, 1100-1750 / Michael Nerlich translation ASU 1987
201 Heroes of modern adventure, by T. C. Bridges and H. Hessell Tiltman WCU 1927
202 Here to stay WCU 1963
203 Here to stay ASU 1963
204 Here to stay UNCA 1963
205 How to hunt buried treasure / James M. Deem illustrated by True Kelley WCU 1992
206 Great Atlantic adventures WCU 1970
207 Ghost ship of Diamond Shoals : the mystery of the Carroll A. Deering : a nonfiction novel / Bland ASU 2002
208 Dead men tell no tales : the lives and legends of the pirate Charles Gibbs / Joseph Gibbs ASU 2007
209 Death raft : the human drama of the Medusa shipwreck / Alexander McKee UNCA 1975
210 Desperate hours : the epic rescue of the Andrea Doria / Richard Goldstein ASU 2001
211 Danger is my business, by John D. Craig ASU 1938
212 Don't try this at home : how to win a sumo match, catch a great white shark, and start an independ WCU 2002
213 Desperate journeys, abandoned souls : true stories of castaways and other survivors / Edward E. Le ASU 1988
214 Cultural resources evaluation of the northern Gulf of Mexico continental shelf / by Coastal Enviro WCU
215 Cannibal Jack: the true autobiography of a white man in the South seas, by William Diapea printed WCU 1928
216 Crocodiles, camels & dugout canoes : eight adventurous episodes / by Bo Zaunders illustrated by WCU 1998
217 Cultural resources evaluation of the northern Gulf of Mexico continental shelf / by Coastal Enviro WCU
218 Castaways and Crusoes tales of survivors of ship-wreck in New Zealand, Patagonia, Tobago, Cuba, M WCU 1915
219 Beyond horizons voyages of adventure and discovery. Illus. by W. N. Wilson ASU 1953
220 Blue water coaster. by Francis E. Bowker WCU 1972
221 Blenden hall the true story of a shipwreck a casting away and life on a desert island WCU 1930
222 Almost too late / Elmo Wortman UNCA 1981
223 A furnace afloat : the wreck of the Hornet and the harrowing 4,300-mile voyage of its survivors / ASU 2003
224 Alone through the dark sea ASU 1964
225 Arctic rovings or, The adventures of a New Bedford boy on sea and land. by Daniel Weston Hall e ASU 1968
226 All stations! distress! : April 15, 1912, the day the Titanic sank / Don Brown WCU 2008
227 Adrift on an ice-pan, by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell illustrated from photographs by Dr. Grenfell a WCU 1909


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