These are not necessarily Sea Kayaking books - but books with a strong adventure theme, or some other outstanding feature such as magnificent and/or unusual photography. I enjoy reading about trips where the participants are relying entirely on their own resources for weeks or months at a time. Trips with support vessels, and/or land support parties detract from the sense of adventure. Merely knowing there is hot food and dry clothes waiting for you, and somebody to put out an alarm if you are a couple of hours overdue is not at all adventurous in my opinion. The 'Swallows and Amazons' had more adventure in them.
(If you have read a book that you think deserves a mention, let me know.)

Cold Oceans, by Jon Turk. I've only read about half of this, and you'll have to read my Discourse on Adventure to see why, and why I perhaps reluctantly list it here.

High Endeavours: The extrordinary life and adventures of Miles and Beryl Smeeton, by Miles Clark.
Beryl Smeeton must take the record for the world all-time adventurer - her travels in most parts of the world are truly amazing. If you are the slightest bit interested in travel and adventure you have to read this. (Will be available from Amazon.com in May 2002, paperback, $12.56 US - can be pre-ordered. Thanks to Sharon-Lee for this information)
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Keep Australia on Your Left : by Eric Stiller."Incredible, funny and inspiring true story of two men, a kayak and one bloody big continent." That's what the cover says, and from the brief glimpse I have had so far it looks as though it is a humorous book about two blokes who set off to circumnavigate Australia in a Klepper double, but opted out at Darwin.

First Lady: by Kay Cottee. First woman to complete a singlehanded non-stop unassisted circumnavigation of the world. Great reading.

An Illustrated treasury of AUSTRALIAN EPIC JOURNEYS: by Anthony Barker. An amazing collection of early Australian journeys. As well as the usual explorers like Cook, Bligh, Blaxland, Sturt, Eyre, Leichhardt etc, there are some that I have never come across before. Like the bloke (G. Morrison) that in 1882 walked from Normanton to Melbourne in 123 days, covering 3,200 kms - and never once saw a Kangaroo. Or F. Burtle, who in 1905 rode a pushbike across the Nullabor from Fremantle to Melbourne, and then went on to cycle twice round Australia, and across the continent seven times by 1912. And then he switched to overlanding by car, and in 1927 made two attempts to drive from London to Melbourne in a 25 horsepower Bean. His second successful attempt is in this book. Also in the book is the story of the Sydney Cove survivors' journey to Sydney - taken from a journal kept by one of them. Plus many more interesting epics.

Guiding Lights: Tasmania's Lighthouses and Lighthousemen. By Kathleen Stanley. An excellent history of Tasmania's lighthouses.

Kayaking in Paradise: by Greg Rasmussen. A 3 month journey from Alaska to Vancouver through the Inside Passage. Not a lot of detail about the trip, but has many beautiful photographs.

Sea Canoeing: by Derek Hutchinson, still the best all-round handbook I've read about sea kayaking. Covers just about everything the new sea canoeist needs to know.

Sea Kayaking: by Nigel Foster. Not read it myself but comes highly recommended. Covers most of the basics for new sea canoeists.