Piracy History

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Role of Pirates in Maritime History During the Early Modern Period, Including Stories of Anne Bonny, Sir Francis Drake, and William Kidd
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The history of the Golden Age of Piracy, the one that has shaped the modern conception of a pirate, is complex and long, with lots of information to cover....

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    • Eyewitness Accounts from the US Coast Guard Hearings
    • By: Michael Schumacher
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • A documentary drawn from testimony at the Coast Guard’s official inquiry looks anew at one of the most storied, and mysterious, shipwrecks in American history....

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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 1,268 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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    • The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
    • By: Nathaniel Philbrick
    • Narrated by: Taylor Mali
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 276 ratings
    • In 1819, the 240-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage. Fifteen months later, in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, it was repeatedly rammed and sunk....

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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 164 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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    • 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 223 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 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 48 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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    • Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
    • By: Hampton Sides
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 820 ratings
    • From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day....

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    • The Bloody History of Piracy in Hawaii and the Pacific
    • By: Jan TenBruggencate
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-24
    • Language: English
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    • The Pacific’s pirates were anything but romantic. They pillaged across the Pacific for five centuries, trafficking in slavery, stolen treasure, ...

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    • The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
    • By: William C. Davis
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • An "engrossing and exciting" account of legendary New Orleans privateers Pierre and Jean Laffite and their adventures along the Gulf Coast (Booklist, starred review)....

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    • New York and the End of the Middle Passage
    • By: John Harris
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • A stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States....

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    • The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail
    • By: Stephen Taylor
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail and his role in Britain's trade, exploration, and warfare....

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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 1,392 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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    • The Incredible Story of the Real Captain Morgan
    • By: Graham A. Thomas
    • Narrated by: Alex Hyde White
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The Pirate King is the compelling true story of a Welshman who became one of the most ruthless and brutal buccaneers of the golden age of piracy....

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    • Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
    • By: Andrew Lambert
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge, turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "seapowers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size....

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    • The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
    • By: David Cordingly
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 357 ratings
    • As he explodes many accepted pirate myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier....

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    • From Henry Hudson to the High Line
    • By: Kurt C. Schlichting
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Waterfront Manhattan is a wide-ranging history that will dazzle anyone who is fascinated by New York....

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    • Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644–1865
    • By: Sean M. Kelley
    • Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
    • Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Historian Sean M. Kelley tells the unknown story of America's two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation....

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    • A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    • By: David Grann
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Grann
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,236 ratings
    • On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell....

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