Reading on clippers and the windjammer era

What books would you recommend about clipper ships and the windjammer era?

Start with books by A. B. C. Whipple, Sam Jefferson, and Daniel J. Nolan, plus John Ferguson's diary of an 1886-87 clipper voyage to Australia.

Several books offer useful starting points without claiming to be a definitive history. The spoken list includes A. B. C. Whipple's Clipper Ships, a Sam Jefferson book on clipper ships and the golden age of sail, and Daniel J. Nolan's Clipper Ships: The Ships That Shaped the World. London to Australia by Clipper in 1886-87, the diary of John Ferguson's voyage from London to Sydney aboard Winter Castle, provides an appealing firsthand account. Together they move from general ship histories to an individual voyage experience.