Maritime History

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    • 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
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-09-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,447 calificaciones
    • A “thrilling and superbly crafted” (The Wall Street Journal) 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.

    Precio regular: $22.50

    • 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
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-27-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 46 calificaciones
    • 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....

    Precio regular: $21.49

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    • Fifty Books to Know the Sea
    • De: Adm. James Stavridis USN (Ret.)
    • Narrado por: Robert Fass
    • Duración: 7 h y 14 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-19-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 calificaciones
    • Admiral Stavridis, a leader in military and national security circles, shares his love of the sea and some of the sources of that affection. The Sailor's Bookshelf offers synopses of fifty books that illustrate the history, importance, lore, and lifestyle of the oceans....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • From Henry Hudson to the High Line
    • De: Kurt C. Schlichting
    • Narrado por: Joel Richards
    • Duración: 7 h y 44 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-12-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 calificaciones
    • Waterfront Manhattan is a wide-ranging history that will dazzle anyone who is fascinated by New York....

    Precio regular: $17.19

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    • The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum
    • De: Edward T. O'Donnell
    • Narrado por: Joel Richards
    • Duración: 11 h y 13 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-31-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 calificaciones
    • 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....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • A Digest of Beliefs, Customs, and Mystery
    • De: James G. Clary
    • Narrado por: John Rayment
    • Duración: 9 h y 41 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-27-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 calificaciones
    • Clary focuses on the vast array of strange, mythical, and often comical beliefs of mariners from ancient times to the present....

    Precio regular: $19.95

    • De: George C. Daughan
    • Narrado por: Marc Vietor
    • Duración: 18 h y 49 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-04-11
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 707 calificaciones
    • At the outbreak of the War of 1812, America's prospects looked dismal....

    Precio regular: $29.95

    • Strategy, Tactics and Technology
    • De: Norman Friedman
    • Narrado por: Tom Perkins
    • Duración: 30 h y 57 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-10-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 76 calificaciones
    • Melding strategic, technical, and tactical aspects, Friedman approaches World War I from a fresh perspective and demonstrates how its perceived lessons dominated the way navies prepared for World War II....

    Precio regular: $30.09

    • The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
    • De: David Cordingly
    • Narrado por: Don Hagen
    • Duración: 10 h y 31 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-29-11
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 358 calificaciones
    • 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....

    Precio regular: $25.78

    • A History of the American Lighthouse
    • De: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrado por: Tom Perkins
    • Duración: 14 h y 11 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-18-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 calificaciones
    • Brilliant Beacons traces the evolution of America's lighthouse system, highlighting the political, military, and technological battles fought to illuminate the nation's hardscrabble coastlines....

    Precio regular: $18.05

    • De: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrado por: Michael Carman
    • Duración: 22 h y 32 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-30-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,123 calificaciones
    • 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.

    Precio regular: $23.44

    • The Epic Hunt for the South's Most Feared Ship—and the Greatest Sea Battle of the Civil War
    • De: Tom Clavin, Phil Keith
    • Narrado por: Joe Knezevich
    • Duración: 8 h y 43 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-12-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 calificaciones
    • On June 19, 1864, just off the coast of France, one of the most dramatic naval battles in history took place....

    Precio regular: $22.49

    • Stories of Cape Cod Women in the Age of Sail
    • De: Jim Coogan
    • Narrado por: Virtual Voice
    • Duración: 4 h y 42 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-17-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
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    • Maritime history has always been the domain of men. From Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast to Herman Melville's Moby Dick, the human ...

    Precio regular: $3.99

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    • Captain Nikola Primorac And The Daring 1870 Atlantic Crossing
    • De: Sasa Fegic
    • Narrado por: Virtual Voice
    • Duración: 1 h y 43 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-30-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 calificación
    • In 1870, a man took a bet. He said he could sail a twenty-foot yawl across the Atlantic. East to west. The hard way. Most men would have laughed. ...

    Precio regular: $4.99

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  • Precio regular: $21.49

    • The Incredible Story of the Real Captain Morgan
    • De: Graham A. Thomas
    • Narrado por: Alex Hyde White
    • Duración: 8 h y 51 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-25-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 calificaciones
    • 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....

    Precio regular: $24.95

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    • De: Kevin F. McMurray
    • Narrado por: Michael Prichard
    • Duración: 4 h y 35 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-03-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 calificaciones
    • On May 29, 1914, after a collision in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Empress of Ireland sank in minutes, taking 1,012 passengers and crew to their deaths. Now, in Dark Descent, acclaimed author and diver Kevin McMurray revives the story of this forgotten maritime catastrophe....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • The Life and Loss of the RMS Titanic
    • De: Tad Fitch, J. Kent Layton, Bill Wormstedt, George Behe - introduction
    • Narrado por: Tom Perkins
    • Duración: 32 h y 22 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-09-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 38 calificaciones
    • 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.

    Precio regular: $31.49

  • Precio regular: $28.13

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    • Stories from the Great Lakes (Greenstone Books)
    • De: Richard Gebhart
    • Narrado por: Jack de Golia
    • Duración: 6 h y 26 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-23-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • The fearsome wrath of the storms that brew over the Great Lakes has challenged and defeated some of the staunchest vessels constructed in the shipyards of port cities along the US and Canadian lakeshores. Richard Gebhart tells the tales of some of these ships and their captains and crews....

    Precio regular: $19.95

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