Maritime History

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    • A Maritime History of the World
    • By: Lincoln Paine
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 29 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean, river, lake and stream....

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    • A Human History of the Oceans
    • By: David Abulafia
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 41 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • From the author of the acclaimed The Great Sea, David Abulafia's new book guides listeners along the world's greatest bodies of water to reveal their primary role in human history....

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    • A Maritime History of World War II
    • By: Evan Mawdsley
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 28 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • Command of the oceans was crucial to winning World War II. In this definitive account, Evan Mawdsley traces events at sea from the first U-boat operations in 1939 to the surrender of Japan....

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    • The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,251 ratings
    • Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond....

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    • A Maritime History
    • By: John S. Sledge
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The Gulf of Mexico presents a compelling, salt-streaked narrative of the Earth's 10th-largest body of water. In this beautifully written volume, John S. Sledge explores the people, ships, and cities that have made the Gulf's human history and culture so rich....

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    • The White European Slaves of Islam
    • By: Simon Webb
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • A century before Britain became involved in this terrible business, whole villages and towns in England, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and other European countries were being depopulated by slavers, who transported the men, women, and children to Africa, where they were sold....

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    • Obsession, the Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the Titanic
    • By: Daniel Stone
    • Narrated by: Daniel Stone
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • On a frigid April night in 1912, the world’s largest—and soon most famous—ocean liner struck an iceberg and slipped beneath the waves. She had scarcely disappeared before her new journey began, a seemingly limitless odyssey through the world’s fixation with her every tragic detail...

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    • Fifty Books to Know the Sea
    • By: Adm. James Stavridis USN (Ret.)
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Admiral Stavridis, a leader in military and national security circles, shares his love of the sea and some of the sources of that affection. The Sailor's Bookshelf offers synopses of fifty books that illustrate the history, importance, lore, and lifestyle of the oceans....

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    • Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End
    • By: Darrel Bristow-Bovey
    • Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The discovery of Endurance briefly swept the anxiety and rancour of 2022 from the headlines of the world, and new generations thrilled again to one of the greatest tales of all time....

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    • A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World
    • By: Will Sofrin
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • A maritime adventure memoir, All Hands on Deck follows a crew of misfits hired to sail an eighteenth-century warship six thousand miles to Hollywood.

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    • Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
    • By: Stephen R. Bown
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 213 ratings
    • The 18th-century story of the world's largest, longest, and best-financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told....

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    • A History of the American Lighthouse
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Brilliant Beacons traces the evolution of America's lighthouse system, highlighting the political, military, and technological battles fought to illuminate the nation's hardscrabble coastlines....

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    • A Global History
    • By: Craig L. Symonds
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 25 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,385 ratings
    • Craig Symonds shows how any limitations on naval warfare would become irrelevant before the decade was up. World War II at Sea offers a global perspective, focusing on the major engagements and personalities and revealing both their scale and their interconnection....

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    • Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates
    • By: Des Ekin
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The Stolen Village is a fascinating tale of international piracy and culture clash nearly 400 years ago and is the first book to cover this relatively unknown and under-researched incident in Irish history....

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    • The World War II Story of Five Fearless Heroes, the Sinking of the Dorchester, and an Awe-Inspiring Rescue
    • By: Steven T. Collis
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • The Immortals explores the power of faith and religious conviction and powerfully narrates the lives of five heroic men who believed in something greater than themselves, living lives of service and sacrifice for their country and their fellow man....

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    • By: Brian Lavery
    • Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
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    • A Short History of Seafaring tells the 5,000 year history of the remarkable individuals who sailed seas, for trade, to conquer new lands, to explore the unknown.

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    • The Unfinished Battle
    • By: Nick Jellicoe
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • This book not only retells the story of the battle from both a British and German perspective based on the latest research, but also helps clarify the context of Germany's inevitable naval clash and the aftermath after the smoke had cleared....

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    • The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild
    • By: Lee Sandlin Jeff
    • Narrated by: Jeff McCarthy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • Acclaimed journalist and author Lee Sandlin delivers a riveting glimpse of a dangerous and colorful place in America’s historical landscape....

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    • Inside the Shocking 1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks
    • By: Richard G. Fernicola MD
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Upon the 100th anniversary of the most terrifying stretch of shark attacks in American history - a wave said to have been the inspiration for Jaws - comes a reissue of the classic Lyons Press account and investigation....

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