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The Wager
- A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
- De: David Grann
- Narrado por: Dion Graham, David Grann
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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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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Gasping for Air
- De Jean Engle en 04-19-23
De: David Grann
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The Wide Wide Sea
- Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
- De: Hampton Sides
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 15 h y 41 m
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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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Detailed story of third voyage
- De Sammi en 04-18-24
De: Hampton Sides
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The Pirate's Wife
- The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd
- De: Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos
- Narrado por: Courtney Patterson
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
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The dramatic and deliciously swashbuckling story of Sarah Kidd, the wife of the famous pirate Captain Kidd, charting her transformation from New York socialite to international outlaw during the Golden Age of Piracy....
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Rey boring
- De Theresa A en 06-24-24
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Born to Be Hanged
- The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
- De: Keith Thomson
- Narrado por: Feodor Chin
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than 300 daring, hardened pirates—a potent mix of low-life scallywags and a rare breed of gentlemen buccaneers—gather on a remote Caribbean island....
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Fascinating tale of 17th Piracy in the Americas
- De Xmeromotu en 07-11-22
De: Keith Thomson
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- De: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrado por: Michael Carman
- Duración: 22 h y 32 m
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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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You don't know the whole story.
- De Justin Sluyter en 05-01-19
De: Peter FitzSimons
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Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
- The Forgotten War That Changed American History
- De: Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger
- Narrado por: Brian Kilmeade
- Duración: 4 h y 52 m
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This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up....
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Interesting history - terrible narrator
- De CJF en 12-08-15
De: Brian Kilmeade, y otros
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The Wager
- A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
- De: David Grann
- Narrado por: Dion Graham, David Grann
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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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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Gasping for Air
- De Jean Engle en 04-19-23
De: David Grann
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The Wide Wide Sea
- Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
- De: Hampton Sides
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 15 h y 41 m
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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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Detailed story of third voyage
- De Sammi en 04-18-24
De: Hampton Sides
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The Pirate's Wife
- The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd
- De: Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos
- Narrado por: Courtney Patterson
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
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The dramatic and deliciously swashbuckling story of Sarah Kidd, the wife of the famous pirate Captain Kidd, charting her transformation from New York socialite to international outlaw during the Golden Age of Piracy....
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Rey boring
- De Theresa A en 06-24-24
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Born to Be Hanged
- The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
- De: Keith Thomson
- Narrado por: Feodor Chin
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than 300 daring, hardened pirates—a potent mix of low-life scallywags and a rare breed of gentlemen buccaneers—gather on a remote Caribbean island....
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Fascinating tale of 17th Piracy in the Americas
- De Xmeromotu en 07-11-22
De: Keith Thomson
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- De: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrado por: Michael Carman
- Duración: 22 h y 32 m
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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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You don't know the whole story.
- De Justin Sluyter en 05-01-19
De: Peter FitzSimons
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Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
- The Forgotten War That Changed American History
- De: Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger
- Narrado por: Brian Kilmeade
- Duración: 4 h y 52 m
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This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up....
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Interesting history - terrible narrator
- De CJF en 12-08-15
De: Brian Kilmeade, y otros
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In the Heart of the Sea
- The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
- De: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth....
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Audio must have been fixed
- De Amazon Customer en 02-11-18
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Empire of Ice and Stone
- The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
- De: Buddy Levy
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
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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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Great adventure story
- De Elaine McCollough en 01-06-23
De: Buddy Levy
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Men-of-War
- Life in Nelson’s Navy
- De: Patrick O’Brian
- Narrado por: Ronald Pickup
- Duración: 1 h y 53 m
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What was daily life in Nelson's navy really like, for everyone from the captain down to the rawest recruit? What did they eat? What songs did they sing? What was the schedule of watches? How were the officers and crew paid, and what was the division of prize-money? Find out....
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a great companion to his other works
- De GAfam82 en 07-22-24
De: Patrick O’Brian
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Pirate Hunters
- Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
- De: Robert Kurson
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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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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Pure Gold
- De Mel en 06-24-15
De: Robert Kurson
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
- De: David Graeber
- Narrado por: Roger Davis
- Duración: 5 h y 10 m
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Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of this mythology is a rich history of pirate societies....
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A fun historical analysis of Pirate political systems
- De Ian Turner en 01-30-23
De: David Graeber
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Indianapolis
- De: Lynn Vincent, Sara Vladic
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 18 h y 39 m
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On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis is sailing alone in the Philippine Sea when she is sunk by two Japanese torpedoes. For the next five nights, almost 300 miles from the nearest land, nearly 900 men battle injuries, sharks, dehydration, insanity, and eventually each other....
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As good as In Harm's Way but different
- De tru britty en 07-13-18
De: Lynn Vincent, y otros
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On a Sea of Glass
- The Life and Loss of the RMS Titanic
- De: Tad Fitch, J. Kent Layton, Bill Wormstedt, y otros
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 32 h y 22 m
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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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One of the best Titanic histories. Mediocre recording.
- De Ariana M. Pisano en 07-22-24
De: Tad Fitch, y otros
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Spice
- The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World
- De: Roger Crowley
- Narrado por: Samuel Roukin
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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The story of the 16th-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific.
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Spice or Megellan?
- De BarbieAlaska en 06-21-24
De: Roger Crowley
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Erebus
- One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
- De: Michael Palin
- Narrado por: Michael Palin
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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Driven by a passion for travel and history and a love of ships and the sea, former Monty Python stalwart and beloved television globe-trotter Michael Palin explores the world of HMS Erebus, last seen on an ill-fated voyage to chart the Northwest Passage....
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Fascinating survey of the intrepid polar explorers
- De Nick Blaha en 08-24-24
De: Michael Palin
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Into the Raging Sea
- Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of the El Faro
- De: Rachel Slade
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in the worst American shipping disaster in 35 years....
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This Book is Tragic for More Than Just its Story
- De John A. Tucker en 10-23-19
De: Rachel Slade
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In Search of a Kingdom
- Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
- De: Laurence Bergreen
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 13 h y 25 m
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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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Better than the text
- De Bramante en 04-07-21
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In the Heart of the Sea: Young Reader's Edition
- The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
- De: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrado por: Taylor Mali
- Duración: 5 h y 37 m
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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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Negroes become "African Americans"
- De Amazon Customer en 09-16-21
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Heaven’s Ditch
- God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal
- De: Jack Kelly
- Narrado por: Andrew Reilly
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn't just dream; they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand....
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An under told story of the United States.
- De JayHey en 08-28-16
De: Jack Kelly
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The Middle East in the 20th Century
- De: Eamonn Gearon, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Professor Eamonn Gearon
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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It is impossible to understand our world today without understanding the last 100 years of Middle Eastern history. The history of the region in the 20th century is so varied and complex that it defies easy explanations....
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excellent!
- De Anonymous User en 05-13-24
De: Eamonn Gearon, y otros
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The Gulf of Mexico
- A Maritime History
- De: John S. Sledge
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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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....
De: John S. Sledge
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Smoke and Ashes
- Opium's Hidden Histories
- De: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrado por: Ranjit Madgavkar
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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Ghosh unravels the impact of the opium trade on global history and in his own family—the climax of a years long project....
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I adored the narrator
- De J. Dusheck en 06-20-24
De: Amitav Ghosh
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Enemy of All Mankind
- A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
- De: Steven Johnson
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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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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Slow
- De Gary V Howell en 06-07-20
De: Steven Johnson
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The Pirate Menace
- Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy
- De: Angus Konstam
- Narrado por: David Monteath
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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The growth of piracy led to a major surge in attacks in the Caribbean and along North America’s Atlantic seaboard. With the fragile maritime economy of the Americas threatened with collapse, major ports were threatened and trade brought to a standstill, the British government finally declared war.
De: Angus Konstam
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Pirate Queens
- The Lives of Anne Bonny & Mary Read
- De: Rebecca Alexandra Simon
- Narrado por: Rebecca Alexandra Simon
- Duración: 5 h y 37 m
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This first full-length biography about Anne Bonny and Mary Read explores their intriguing backgrounds while examining the social context of women in their lifetime and their legacy in popular culture that exists to the present day....
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Don’t let the reviews fools you
- De Kyler Adams en 01-17-24
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The Dutch Moment
- War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
- De: Wim Klooster
- Narrado por: Fred Filbrich
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
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In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast....
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It ain’t much, if you ain’t Dutch
- De DR.RD en 06-28-23
De: Wim Klooster
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To Rule the Waves
- How Control of the World's Oceans Determines the Fate of the Superpowers
- De: Bruce Jones
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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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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Eye opener of how the seas impact today
- De Thomas VandeVanter en 03-11-23
De: Bruce Jones
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Into the Deep
- A Memoir from the Man Who Found Titanic
- De: Robert D. Ballard, Christopher Drew
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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The legendary explorer of the Titanic shares inside stories of danger, suspense, and discovery - plus previously untold stories about his own dyslexia and how it has shaped his life....
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A Study of the Ego
- De Thomas en 06-08-21
De: Robert D. Ballard, y otros
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Two Years Before the Mast
- De: Richard Henry Dana Jr.
- Narrado por: Robert G Slade
- Duración: 17 h y 26 m
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Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana Jr.’s captivating account of life as a common sailor on board a merchant ship in the early 1830s. An iconic maritime memoir said to have influenced Herman Melville, this remains one of America’s greatest seafaring tales....
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China's Law of the Sea
- The New Rules of Maritime Order
- De: Isaac B. Kardon
- Narrado por: Chris Monteiro
- Duración: 12 h
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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....
De: Isaac B. Kardon
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Ghost Ship
- The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew
- De: Brian Hicks
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo-and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew. What happened on board the ghost ship Mary Celeste has baffled and tantalized the world for 130 years. Brian Hicks plumbs the depths of this fabled nautical mystery and uncovers the truth.
De: Brian Hicks
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Wrecked on a Reef
- Twenty Months among the Auckland Isles
- De: F.E. Raynal
- Narrado por: Charles Robert Fox
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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In December 1864, five men stood on the desolate shore of a subantarctic island watching their ship break apart in the waves and sunken rocks as they contemplated an uncertain fate, In the constant presence or icy rain and howling wind, the crew of the Grafton spent the next twenty months both enduring and leveraging the unforgiving elements of Auckland Island as they awaited a rescue ship that never arrived.
De: F.E. Raynal
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Two Squirrels and a Girl
- De: Montie Carol Montgmery
- Narrado por: Angela Clark
- Duración: 4 h y 34 m
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Born to wealth that the Civil War ravaged, held captive by renegade Comanche, and rejected by family and friends, Mary Elizabeth (“Libby”) Haley ran away from home at the age of 14. Libby learned to navigate the dangerous and volatile Old West and made a name for herself as Squirrel Tooth Alice. Given her moniker because of a gap in her front teeth and her passion for raising ground squirrels as pets, Libby made the best of a difficult situation.
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Ship Ablaze
- The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum
- De: Edward T. O'Donnell
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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There were few experienced swimmers among over 1,300 Lower East Side residents who boarded the General Slocum on June 15, 1904. It shouldn't have mattered since the steamship was only chartered for a languid excursion from Manhattan to Long Island Sound. But a fire erupted minutes into the trip, forcing hundreds of terrified passengers into the water. By the time the captain found a safe shore for landing, 1,021 had perished. It was New York's deadliest tragedy prior to September 11, 2001.
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I love learning the “rest of the story”
- De Mark Mears en 07-17-18
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The History of the Vikings
- Norse Sagas, Medieval Marauders, and Far-Flung Settlements
- De: Chris R. Fee
- Narrado por: Chris R. Fee
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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Frequently depicted as “Scandinavian scavengers”, warlike pirates, raiders, and invaders, the Vikings have lately surfaced from the depths of history to become pop culture’s most adored ruffians. For Prof. Fee, this recent craze for all things Viking is a mixed blessing. The spike in popular fascination often occasions a need to separate the wheat from the chaff: fact from fiction, history from myth, literature from legend.
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Good but not the best Viking lecture series out there
- De Daniel J. Macarro en 11-20-18
De: Chris R. Fee
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The Black Joke
- One Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade
- De: A.E. Rooks
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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The most feared ship in Britain’s West Africa Squadron, His Majesty’s brig Black Joke was one of a handful of ships tasked with patrolling the western coast of Africa in an effort to end hundreds of years of global slave trading. Sailing after the spectacular fall of Napoleon in France, yet before the rise of Queen Victoria’s England, Black Joke was first a slaving vessel itself, and one with a lightning-fast reputation; only a lucky capture in 1827 allowed it to be repurposed by the Royal Navy to catch its former compatriots.
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Makes history come alive
- De Anneke García en 02-04-22
De: A.E. Rooks
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Ghost Ship
- The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew
- De: Brian Hicks
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo-and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew. What happened on board the ghost ship Mary Celeste has baffled and tantalized the world for 130 years. Brian Hicks plumbs the depths of this fabled nautical mystery and uncovers the truth.
De: Brian Hicks
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Wrecked on a Reef
- Twenty Months among the Auckland Isles
- De: F.E. Raynal
- Narrado por: Charles Robert Fox
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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In December 1864, five men stood on the desolate shore of a subantarctic island watching their ship break apart in the waves and sunken rocks as they contemplated an uncertain fate, In the constant presence or icy rain and howling wind, the crew of the Grafton spent the next twenty months both enduring and leveraging the unforgiving elements of Auckland Island as they awaited a rescue ship that never arrived.
De: F.E. Raynal
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Two Squirrels and a Girl
- De: Montie Carol Montgmery
- Narrado por: Angela Clark
- Duración: 4 h y 34 m
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Born to wealth that the Civil War ravaged, held captive by renegade Comanche, and rejected by family and friends, Mary Elizabeth (“Libby”) Haley ran away from home at the age of 14. Libby learned to navigate the dangerous and volatile Old West and made a name for herself as Squirrel Tooth Alice. Given her moniker because of a gap in her front teeth and her passion for raising ground squirrels as pets, Libby made the best of a difficult situation.
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Ship Ablaze
- The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum
- De: Edward T. O'Donnell
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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There were few experienced swimmers among over 1,300 Lower East Side residents who boarded the General Slocum on June 15, 1904. It shouldn't have mattered since the steamship was only chartered for a languid excursion from Manhattan to Long Island Sound. But a fire erupted minutes into the trip, forcing hundreds of terrified passengers into the water. By the time the captain found a safe shore for landing, 1,021 had perished. It was New York's deadliest tragedy prior to September 11, 2001.
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I love learning the “rest of the story”
- De Mark Mears en 07-17-18
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The History of the Vikings
- Norse Sagas, Medieval Marauders, and Far-Flung Settlements
- De: Chris R. Fee
- Narrado por: Chris R. Fee
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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Frequently depicted as “Scandinavian scavengers”, warlike pirates, raiders, and invaders, the Vikings have lately surfaced from the depths of history to become pop culture’s most adored ruffians. For Prof. Fee, this recent craze for all things Viking is a mixed blessing. The spike in popular fascination often occasions a need to separate the wheat from the chaff: fact from fiction, history from myth, literature from legend.
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Good but not the best Viking lecture series out there
- De Daniel J. Macarro en 11-20-18
De: Chris R. Fee
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The Black Joke
- One Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade
- De: A.E. Rooks
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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The most feared ship in Britain’s West Africa Squadron, His Majesty’s brig Black Joke was one of a handful of ships tasked with patrolling the western coast of Africa in an effort to end hundreds of years of global slave trading. Sailing after the spectacular fall of Napoleon in France, yet before the rise of Queen Victoria’s England, Black Joke was first a slaving vessel itself, and one with a lightning-fast reputation; only a lucky capture in 1827 allowed it to be repurposed by the Royal Navy to catch its former compatriots.
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Makes history come alive
- De Anneke García en 02-04-22
De: A.E. Rooks
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The War of Jenkins' Ear
- The Forgotten Struggle for North and South America: 1739-1742
- De: Robert Gaudi
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
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In the early eighteenth century, the British and Spanish Empires were fighting for economic supremacy in the Americas. Tensions between the two powers were high, and wars blossomed like violent flowers for nearly a hundred years, from the War of Spanish Succession, culminating in the War of Jenkins' Ear. Even though it happened decades before American independence, The War of Jenkins' Ear reveals that this was truly an American war; a hard-fought, costly struggle that determined the fate of the Americas, and in which, for the first time, American armies participated.
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Fruit from the Poisoned Tree
- De John K. Marsh en 05-05-23
De: Robert Gaudi
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Black Flags, Blue Waters
- The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
- De: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrado por: Paul Brion
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
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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" when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. Best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these outrageous pirates in an early display of solidarity against the Crown, and then violently opposed them. Upending popular misconceptions and cartoonish stereotypes, Dolin provides this wholly original account of these seafaring outlaws.
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- De K ODell en 07-17-19
De: Eric Jay Dolin
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Seapower States
- Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
- De: Andrew Lambert
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 13 h y 43 m
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Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge - winner of the prestigious Anderson Medal - 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. Lambert demonstrates how creating maritime identities made these states more dynamic, open, and inclusive than their lumbering continental rivals. Only when they forgot this aspect of their identity did these nations begin to decline.
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- De fm2 en 01-14-19
De: Andrew Lambert
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The Lionkeeper of Algiers
- How an American Captive Rose to Power in Barbary and Saved His Homeland from War
- De: Des Ekin
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
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In 1785, a young American named James Leander Cathcart is kidnapped at sea and carried as prisoner to the maverick North African statelet of Algiers. The piratical corsairs of Algiers have decided to exploit the vulnerability of the United States by seizing its mariners and holding them for ransom. Today, the name of James Leander Cathcart has been all but forgotten.
De: Des Ekin
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The Dutch Moment
- War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
- De: Wim Klooster
- Narrado por: Fred Filbrich
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
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In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast. The fleets and armies that fought for the Dutch in the decades-long war against Spain included numerous foreigners, largely drawn from countries in northwestern Europe. Likewise, many settlers of Dutch colonies were born in other parts of Europe or the New World.
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It ain’t much, if you ain’t Dutch
- De DR.RD en 06-28-23
De: Wim Klooster
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Swept Away
- Perilous Escapades: Harry Merryweather & David Moreton's 19th Century Naval Adventures from Cornwall to the West Indies and the Atlantic Ocean.
- De: Percy Watson
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 4 h y 10 m
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A historical adventure book set in the coastal areas of Cornwall, the West Indies, and the Atlantic Ocean in the early 19th century.Swept Away is a historical adventure novel set primarily along the coast of Cornwall, England, extending to locations such as the West Indies and the vast Atlantic Ocean. The narrative begins with a picturesque autumn afternoon by the Cornish coast, where families and friends enjoy a lively picnic. Amidst the revelry, young midshipman Harry Merryweather makes a dramatic entrance, climbing down a steep cliff and entertaining his friends with tales of naval ...
De: Percy Watson
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Pirates
- The Truth Behind the Robbers of the High Seas
- De: Nigel Cawthorne
- Narrado por: Mack Gordon
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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Using contemporary sources, Nigel Cawthorne turns the spotlight on the reality of pirate life, revealing the truth behind the legends. It gives us an insight into infamous the men and women who plundered ship and shore, including Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, and Mary Read. We learn of the hazy distinction between pirates and state-approved privateers who were used to maintain empire, as well as the Port Royal pirate base in Jamaica—known as the "wickedest city in the world".
De: Nigel Cawthorne
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The Rise of the American Navy
- Maritime Battles Through the First Hundred Years
- De: John Williams Ptolemy
- Narrado por: Joshua Mount
- Duración: 2 h y 57 m
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In its two centuries of existence, America has seen more than its fair share of momentous events. Through it all, the American Navy has not only been a witness but an active and key participant to the creation and progress of the country. It has grown and strengthened its capabilities - from having zero ships and zero expertise to becoming one of the largest fleets in the world.
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The Dive
- The Untold Story of the World's Deepest Submarine Rescue
- De: Stephen McGinty
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
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On August 29, 1973, a routine dive to the telecommunication cable that snakes along the Atlantic sea bed went badly wrong. Pisces III, with Roger Chapman and Roger Mallinson onboard, had tried to surface when a catastrophic fault suddenly sent the mini-submarine tumbling to the ocean bed - almost half a mile below. Badly damaged, buried nose first in a bed of sand, the submarine and the two men were now trapped far beyond the depth of all previous sub-sea rescues. They had just two days’ worth of oxygen. Rescue was three days away.
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Intriguing and suspenseful
- De NinaDP en 06-24-23
De: Stephen McGinty
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The Pirate King
- The Incredible Story of the Real Captain Morgan
- De: Graham A. Thomas
- Narrado por: Alex Hyde White
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
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A compelling account of history's most famous pirate. 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. The inspiration for dozens of fictionalized pirates in film, television, and literature - as well the namesake of one of the world's most popular rum brands - Captain Sir Henry Morgan was matchless among pirates and privateers.
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Pirate Morgan as fictionally told by himself
- De prc en 03-25-21
De: Graham A. Thomas
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Maritime Dominion and the Triumph of the Free World: Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern World, 1852-2001
- The Maritime Trilogy, Book 3
- De: Peter Padfield
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
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Freedom of expression and individual enterprise have distinguished the societies of powers dominant at sea, and since supreme maritime nations have prevailed over their territorial rivals in the great wars of the modern era, it is they who have created today's world. In this final volume of his masterful trilogy, Padfield carries the theme through the terrible wars of the last century to the present, with vivid descriptions of the naval battles that have shaped our world.
De: Peter Padfield
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Two Years Before the Mast
- De: Richard Henry Dana Jr.
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 17 h
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Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834 and published in 1840. While at Harvard College, Dana had an attack of the measles that affected his vision. Thinking it might help his sight, Dana, rather than going on a Grand Tour as most of his fellow classmates traditionally did (and unable to afford it anyway), and being something of a nonconformist, left Harvard to enlist as a common sailor.
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Great Historical Account
- De Matt en 05-26-11
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Into the Raging Sea
- Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of the El Faro
- De: Rachel Slade
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in the worst American shipping disaster in 35 years. No one could fathom how a vessel equipped with satellite communications and a sophisticated navigation system could suddenly vanish - until now. Relying on hundreds of exclusive interviews with family members and maritime experts, as well as the words of the crew members themselves - whose conversations were captured by the ship’s data recorder - journalist Rachel Slade unravels the mystery.
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This Book is Tragic for More Than Just its Story
- De John A. Tucker en 10-23-19
De: Rachel Slade
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Mutiny on the Rising Sun
- A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate
- De: Jared Ross Hardesty
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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On the night of June 1, 1743, terror struck the schooner Rising Sun. After completing a routine smuggling voyage where the crew sold enslaved Africans in exchange for chocolate, sugar, and coffee in the Dutch colony of Suriname, the ship traveled eastward along the South American coast. Believing there was an opportunity to steal the lucrative cargo and make a new life for themselves, three sailors snuck below deck, murdered four people, and seized control of the vessel.
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Pirate Hunters
- Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
- De: Robert Kurson
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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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. At large during the Golden Age of Piracy in the seventeenth century, Bannister should have been immortalized in the lore of the sea—his exploits more notorious than Blackbeard’s, more daring than Kidd’s. But his story, and his ship, have been lost to time.
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Pure Gold
- De Mel en 06-24-15
De: Robert Kurson
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Navy Gazette
- An Historical Eye-Witness Account of Life in the British Navy: A Full-Cast Production
- De: Sue Rodwell
- Narrado por: Eileen Atkins, Alex Jennings, Hugh Laurie, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 6 m
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Experience first-hand the reality of life in the British Navy sailing from the Viking invasion of Anglo Saxon England to a young sailor’s grief at the death of Lord Nelson, from the Spanish Armada to the Battle of Jutland and from organised press gangs to murderous mutinies. Told entirely in the words of those who were there.
De: Sue Rodwell
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Titanic. Untergang und Mythos
- De: Heiko Petermann
- Narrado por: Heiko Petermann
- Duración: 52 m
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In der Nacht des 14. April 1912 kollidierte die Titanic, die als Wunder der Technik und praktisch unsinkbar galt, auf ihrer Jungfernfahrt mit einem Eisberg und versank binnen Stunden. Der Untergang der Titanic zählt zu den größten Katastrophen in der Geschichte der Seefahrt. Eine Hördokumentation mit O-Tönen, Geräuschen und Musik.
De: Heiko Petermann
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Mutiny on the Spanish Main
- HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy’s Revenge
- De: Angus Konstam
- Narrado por: Sid Sagar
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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Mutiny on the Spanish Main tells the dramatic story of HMS Hermione, a British frigate which, in 1797, was the site of the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history, which saw the death of her captain and many of her officers. Though her crew handed her over to the Spanish, Hermione was subsequently recaptured in a daring raid on a Caribbean port two years later.
De: Angus Konstam
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The Golden Age of Piracy
- 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
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
- Duración: 4 h y 5 m
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There are plenty of other elements about real-life pirates that are simply fiction. But what about the real history of pirates - is it worth exploring, and why? 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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An interesting overview
- De Cynda Felini en 06-12-24
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Prisoners of the Bashaw
- The Nineteen-Month Captivity of American Sailors in Tripoli, 1803–1805
- De: Frederick C. Leiner
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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On October 31, 1803, the frigate USS Philadelphia ran aground on a reef a few miles outside the harbor of Tripoli. After hours under fire, the Philadelphia, aground and defenseless, surrendered, and 307 American sailors and marines were captured. The bashaw ordered the crew moved into an old warehouse, and the officers were eventually moved to a dungeon beneath the Bashaw's castle. While the officers were treated as "gentlemen," although imprisoned, the sailors worked as enslaved laborers.
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The Pirate World
- A History of the Most Notorious Sea Robbers
- De: Angus Konstam
- Narrado por: Jonathan Cowley
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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Often romanticized in print and on the silver screen, real-life pirates were a brutal menace that plagued the high seas. In this book, Angus Konstam separates myth from reality, tracing the history of piracy through the centuries, from the pirates who plagued the Ancient Egyptians to the Viking raids and on to the era of privateers. He discusses the so-called "Golden Age of Piracy" and colorful characters such as Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, before examining the West's initial encounters with Eastern pirates off the Chinese coast and the phenomenon of the modern pirate.
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Narration is so freaking bad
- De Matt en 03-25-19
De: Angus Konstam
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Untamed Waters
- The Golden Age of Piracy
- De: Thomas Weiss
- Narrado por: Dylan J Holt
- Duración: 3 h y 44 m
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Untamed Waters: The Golden Age of Piracy is a captivating and thoroughly researched exploration of history's most notorious era, delving into the thrilling world of pirates and their daring exploits on the high seas. From the sun-kissed shores of the Caribbean to the treacherous waters of the Indian Ocean, this book unravels the motivations behind piracy and its impact on global trade and politics. With meticulous citations, it serves as both an engaging listen for history enthusiasts and a valuable academic resource.
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Interesting and not the regurgitated info!
- De Paul Silva en 12-16-23
De: Thomas Weiss
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The Middle East in the 20th Century
- De: Eamonn Gearon, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Professor Eamonn Gearon
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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It is impossible to understand our world today without understanding the last 100 years of Middle Eastern history. The history of the region in the 20th century is so varied and complex that it defies easy explanations. Shifting borders, governmental overthrows, ethnic and nationalist tensions, and political and economic forces on the world stage all had a hand in shaping the course of Middle Eastern history. Ultimately, however, the story is one of people searching for self-determination, from the stumbling alliances after the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Arab Spring uprisings.
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excellent!
- De Anonymous User en 05-13-24
De: Eamonn Gearon, y otros
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Die letzten 160 Minuten der Titanic
- De: Wolf Schneider
- Narrado por: Wolf Schneider
- Duración: 49 m
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Ein Hörbuch über den Mythos der als unsinkbar geltenden Titanic: Als der Luxusliner am 15. April 1912 auf seiner Fahrt von Southampton nach New York im Atlantik versank, hat diese Katastrophe die Menschen wie kaum ein anderes Schiffsunglück bewegt - und tut es bis heute. Der Journalist und Sachbuchautor Wolf Schneider gewährt einen Einblick in die letzten Stunden und Minuten auf diesem Schiff, das in die Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts eingegangen ist.
De: Wolf Schneider