Brown, Anthony Gary (2006). The Patrick O'Brian Muster Book: Persons, Animals, Ships and Cannon in the Aubrey-Maturin Sea Novels. McFarland & Company. ISBN0-7864-2482-6.
Brunvand (January 2004). "The Early Bird is Worth Two in the Bush: Captain Jack Aubrey's Fractured Proverbs". Dalam Lau, Kimberly J.; Tokofsky, Peter; Winick, Stephen D. (ed.). What Goes Around comes Around: The Circulation of Proverbs in Contemporary Life. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press. hlm.152–170.
Cunningham, A. E., ed. (1994). Patrick O'Brian: A Bibliography and Critical Appreciation. Boston Spa: British Library. ISBN0-7123-1071-1.
Steel, David (1794). "The Elements and Practice of Rigging And Seamanship". San Francisco Maritime National Park Association. Diakses tanggal October 31, 2014. Detailed manual of seamanship which is especially useful for its descriptions and illustrations, pp.236–42, of the varied and obscurely-named types of sailing ships encountered in the novels.