Maritime English

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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: 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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    • By: Hampton Sides
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides comes 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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    • 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 676 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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    • A History
    • By: Richard J. King
    • Narrated by: William Hope
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Richard King's enormously engaging and curious book is about the debt we owe to solo sailors: women and men, young and old, who have set out alone....

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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: 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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    • 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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    • A Human History of the Oceans
    • By: David Abulafia
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 41 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 19-12-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • For most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples - for the spread of ideas and religion as well as commerce....

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    • 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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    • 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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    • The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance
    • By: Mensun Bound
    • Narrated by: Charles Armstrong, Mensun Bound
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of how the world’s most famous shipwreck was found, told by the man leading the search....

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    • The Life and Loss of the RMS Titanic
    • By: Tad Fitch, J. Kent Layton, Bill Wormstedt, George Behe - introduction
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 32 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-2024
    • Language: English
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    • On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, collided with an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage. Of the 2,208 people on board, only 712 were saved. The rest either drowned or froze to death.

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    • The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
    • By: Julian Sancton
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
    • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 18-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • The harrowing survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly wrong, with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless Antarctic winter....

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    • By: Adam Courtenay
    • Narrated by: James Saunders
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 15-06-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • By the best-selling author of The Ship That Never Was comes the story of how a motley crew of merchant seamen walked 600 miles to save 7,000 gallons of rum....

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    • By: Clive Cussler, Craig Dirgo
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Clive Cussler and colleague Craig Dirgo provide an extraordinary narrative of their true seagoing - and land - adventures....

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    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Madagascar's lost pirate utopia represents some of the first stirrings of Enlightenment political thought. In this jewel of a book, he offers a way to 'decolonise the Enlightenment', demonstrating how this mixed community experimented with an alternative vision of human freedom....

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    • By: David Gibbins
    • Narrated by: Richard Burnip
    • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A rich and exciting narrative, this is not just the story of ships and the people who sailed on them, the cargo and treasure they carried and their tragic fate. This is also the story of the spread of people, religion and ideas around the world....

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    • Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier
    • By: Ian Urbina
    • Narrated by: Ian Urbina, Jason Culp
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 19-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas....

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    • The World of the Narrows, Book 1
    • By: Adrienne Young
    • Narrated by: Emma Lysy
    • Series: The World of the Narrows, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Welcome to a world made dangerous by the sea and by those who wish to profit from it. Where a young girl must find her place and her family while trying to survive in a world built for men....

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    • Opium's Hidden Histories
    • By: Amitav Ghosh
    • Narrated by: Ranjit Madgavkar
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 15-02-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Smoke and Ashes is at once a travelogue, memoir and an essay in history, drawing on decades of archival research. In it, Amitav Ghosh traces the transformative effect the opium trade had on Britain, India, and China, as well as the world at large....

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