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  • The Wide Wide Sea Audiobook By Hampton Sides cover art

    • The Wide Wide Sea

    • 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 812 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 Wager Audiobook By David Grann cover art

    • The Wager

    • 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 5,222 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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  • Mutiny on the Bounty Audiobook By Peter FitzSimons cover art

    • Mutiny on the Bounty

    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Michael Carman
    • Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 942 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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  • In the Heart of the Sea Audiobook By Nathaniel Philbrick cover art

    • In the Heart of the Sea

    • The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
    • By: Nathaniel Philbrick
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,510 ratings
    • 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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  • Black Flags, Blue Waters Audiobook By Eric Jay Dolin cover art

    • 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: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,266 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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  • In Search of a Kingdom Audiobook By Laurence Bergreen cover art

    • 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: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 761 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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  • The Sea Hunters II Audiobook By Craig Dirgo, Clive Cussler cover art

    • The Sea Hunters II

    • By: Craig Dirgo, Clive Cussler
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • From the authors of the number-one best-selling The Sea Hunters comes more unforgettable true adventures with famous shipwrecks. ....

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  • Erebus Audiobook By Michael Palin cover art

    • Erebus

    • One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
    • By: Michael Palin
    • Narrated by: Michael Palin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings

    • 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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  • World War II at Sea Audiobook By Craig L. Symonds cover art

    • World War II at Sea

    • 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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  • Empire of Ice and Stone Audiobook By Buddy Levy cover art

    • 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: 12-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 363 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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  • Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia Audiobook By David Graeber cover art

    • Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings

    • 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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  • Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates Audiobook By Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger cover art

    • Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

    • The Forgotten War That Changed American History
    • By: Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger
    • Narrated by: Brian Kilmeade
    • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,864 ratings
    • 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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  • Spice Audiobook By Roger Crowley cover art

    • Spice

    • The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World
    • By: Roger Crowley
    • Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings

    • 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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  • Indianapolis Audiobook By Lynn Vincent, Sara Vladic cover art

    • Indianapolis

    • By: Lynn Vincent, Sara Vladic
    • Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
    • Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,607 ratings

    • 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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  • On a Sea of Glass Audiobook By Tad Fitch, J. Kent Layton, Bill Wormstedt, George Behe - introduction cover art

    • On a Sea of Glass

    • 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: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

    • 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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  • Pirate Hunters Audiobook By Robert Kurson cover art

    • 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: 06-16-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,506 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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  • Born to Be Hanged Audiobook By Keith Thomson cover art

    • Born to Be Hanged

    • The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
    • By: Keith Thomson
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 325 ratings

    • 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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  • The Sea and Civilization Audiobook By Lincoln Paine cover art

    • The Sea and Civilization

    • 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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  • Enemy of All Mankind Audiobook By Steven Johnson cover art

    • 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: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 376 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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  • Smoke and Ashes Audiobook By Amitav Ghosh cover art

    • Smoke and Ashes

    • Opium's Hidden Histories
    • By: Amitav Ghosh
    • Narrated by: Ranjit Madgavkar
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings

    • 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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