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N. Bowditch's American Practical Navigator: this 'epitome of navigation' has continuously evolved since 1802, and is one of the most complete, reliable and beautiful references covering many fundamental navigational topics (nautical charts, piloting, compasses, celestial navigation, ...).
Two websites with free, unofficial samples of nautical charts (not to be used for navigation): Navionics Chart Viewer and Data.Shom.Fr
A beautiful website on celestial navigation.
A free online Nautical Almanac (not to be used for navigation), with both historical contemporary data.
The marine chronometer: it history and development: an exceptional piece of work witnessing R. Gould's passion and zeal for marine timepieces, and for understanding and restoring J. Harrison's chronometers.
Longitude: The true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time, by D. Sobel, the story of J. Harrison, a carpenter and clockmaker who invented the first marine timepiece sufficiently accurate to determine longitude at sea.
Longitude, a documentary on the first efforts to develop a method to measure longitude at sea and the Longitude Prize.

J. Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World, the diary of the first single-handed circumnavigation of the globe, a great, beautifully written and entertaining travel narrative.
Deep Water, the tragic story of Donald Crowhurst in the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race.
The Endurance, a documentary about Ernest Shackleton's attempt to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent.
Mémoires du large, by E. Tabarly: a detailed narrative of the life of one of the finest mariners of all times, which intertwines its childhood, family, friends, and his carrer in the Navy, all seen in relation to Tabarly's life at sea.
Tabarly: a 2008 biographical documentary by P. Marcel, about the life and achievements of the world-class french sailor.
Wind, a movie about the 1980s America's cup.