Sailor Historian : The best of Samuel Eliot Morison / By Samuel Eliot Morison ; edt. by Emily Morison Beck ; forward by Walter M.Whitehill , some reflections by David McCord.

THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA: The mysterious ocean -- Who really discovered America? -- Christopher Columbus -- Magellan -- Giovanni da Verrazzano -- Francis Drake in California -- Samuel de Champlain -- VOYAGES AND SEA BATTLES: A day at sea -- The voyage of the Mayflower, 1620 -- The Battle off Flamborough Head, Sep 23, 1779 -- Oh! California, 1844-1850 -- The Clipper Ship, 1850-1854 -- The passing of the Clipper -- The Somers mutiny, 1842-1843 -- The landing at Fedhala, Morocco, Nov. 8, 1942 -- The battle off Samar, Oct. 25, 1944 -- Conclusion to the War in the Pacific -- STUDIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: William Bradford -- The conservative American Revolution -- The young man Washington -- The wisdom of Benjamin Franklin -- Perry's first visit to Japan, July 8-17, 1853 -- AMERICAN LIFE: The Harvard man of 1700 -- Harry Otis, friend and host -- The ropemakers of Plymouth -- HISTORY OF THE CRAFT: Prescott, the American Thucydides -- Francis Parkman -- Sir Winston Churchill: Nobel Prize winner -- History as a literary art -- REMINISCENCES & ADVENTURES: One boy's Boston, 1887-1901 -- Charles Eliot Norton -- A summer cruise in the Aegean -- Spring tides -- An August day's sail.