Well, that's one ghastly website you pointed to. I have a physical edition of the Harvard Classics, and it's mostly boring stuff and speeches and political doc

Well, that's one ghastly website you pointed to. I have a physical edition of the Harvard Classics, and it's mostly boring stuff and speeches and political documents that are sufficiently summarized in other contexts (history books, Bartlett's, etc). One book that is worth reading is this (free): http://www.amazon.com/Years-Before-Mast-Richard-Henry-ebook/dp/B0082XP72S/ http://www.amazon.com/Years-Before-Mast-Richard-Henry-ebook/...