Maritime History & Piracy

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  • Mutiny on the Bounty cover art

    • Mutiny on the Bounty

    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Michael Carman
    • Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 673 ratings

    • The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.

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    • Black Flags, Blue Waters

    • 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: 16-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 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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    • Enemy of All Mankind

    • A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings

    • From the New York Times best-selling author of The Ghost Map and Extra Life, the story of a pirate who changed the world....

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    • Great South Land

    • By: Rob Mundle
    • Narrated by: Paul English
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • Between 1606 and 1688, while the British had their hands full with the Gunpowder Plot and the English Civil War, it was highly skilled Dutch seafarers who mapped the land masses....

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    • Pirate Women

    • The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas
    • By: Laura Sook Duncombe
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-2017
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This book tells the story of women, both real and legendary, who through the ages sailed alongside - and sometimes in command of - their male counterparts....

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    • Seapower States

    • 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: 27-11-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 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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    • Pirate Hunters

    • Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
    • By: Robert Kurson
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 16-06-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings

    • Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men—John Chatterton and John Mattera—are willing to risk everything to find the Golden Fleece, the ship of the infamous pirate Joseph Bannister....

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    • China's Law of the Sea

    • The New Rules of Maritime Order
    • By: Isaac B. Kardon
    • Narrated by: Chris Monteiro
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 28-03-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • China's Law of the Sea is the first comprehensive study of the law and geopolitics of China's maritime disputes. It provides a rigorous empirical account of whether and how China is changing "the rules" of international order—specifically, the international law of the sea....

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    • Empire of Ice and Stone

    • The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
    • By: Buddy Levy
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-2022
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it....

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    • Paradise in Chains

    • The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia
    • By: Diana Preston
    • Narrated by: Davina Porter
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony....

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    • The Shipwreck Hunter

    • A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor
    • By: David L. Mearns
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 26-06-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • The Shipwreck Hunter chronicles David L. Mearns' most intriguing finds. It describes the extraordinary techniques used, the detailed research, and the courage required to find a wreck thousands of feet beneath the sea, plus the moving human stories that lie behind these tragedies....

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    • Slavery at Sea

    • Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage
    • By: Sowande’ M Mustakeem
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Sowande' Mustakeem's groundbreaking study goes inside the Atlantic slave trade to explore the social conditions and human costs embedded in the world of maritime slavery....

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    • Jack Tar

    • Life in Nelson's Navy
    • By: Lesley Adkins, Roy Adkins
    • Narrated by: John Telfer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousands of sailors and marines to man the great wind-powered wooden warships....

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    • To Rule the Waves

    • How Control of the World's Oceans Determines the Fate of the Superpowers
    • By: Bruce Jones
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • For centuries, oceans were the chessboard on which empires battled for supremacy. But in the nuclear age, air power and missile systems dominated our worries about security, and for the United States, the economy was largely driven by domestic production....

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    • Finding Endurance

    • Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End
    • By: Darrel Bristow-Bovey
    • Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-2023
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • The Code of the Zombie Pirate

    • How to Become an Undead Master of the High Seas
    • By: Scott Kenemore
    • Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark
    • Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Yet another brilliant entry in Kenemore’s zombie canon - Cap’n Hook meets the undead.....

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    • Sinkable

    • 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: 16-08-2022
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • In Search of a Kingdom

    • Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
    • By: Laurence Bergreen
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan, Columbus, and Marco Polo brings alive the singular life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, the pirate/explorer/admiral whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed....

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    • Barons of the Sea

    • By: Steven Ujifusa
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 17-07-2018
    • Language: English
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    • In the grand tradition of David McCullough and Ron Chernow, the sweeping story of the 19th-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades....

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