I'm currently reading Mencius, I think I'll lighten the load a littlle and read Lightholler's autobiography.
"Sail Ho!" was a very good book by Sir James Bissett, if you like biographies then you'd enjoy that too, it's the first part of a trilogy followed by "Tramps and Ladies" and then "Commodore". I've read the second one (which I enjoyed very much) but not the third one yet.