Maritime History

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    • 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 161 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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    • A Maritime History
    • By: John S. Sledge
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • 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....

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    • A Human History of the Oceans
    • By: David Abulafia
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 41 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • From the author of the acclaimed The Great Sea, David Abulafia's new book guides listeners along the world's greatest bodies of water to reveal their primary role in human history....

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    • A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World
    • By: Will Sofrin
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • A maritime adventure memoir, All Hands on Deck follows a crew of misfits hired to sail an eighteenth-century warship six thousand miles to Hollywood.

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    • A Maritime History of World War II
    • By: Evan Mawdsley
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 28 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • Command of the oceans was crucial to winning World War II. In this definitive account, Evan Mawdsley traces events at sea from the first U-boat operations in 1939 to the surrender of Japan....

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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: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,258 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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    • Eyewitness Accounts from the US Coast Guard Hearings
    • By: Michael Schumacher
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • A documentary drawn from testimony at the Coast Guard’s official inquiry looks anew at one of the most storied, and mysterious, shipwrecks in American history....

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    • 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: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • 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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    • Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
    • By: Stephen R. Bown
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 218 ratings
    • The 18th-century story of the world's largest, longest, and best-financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told....

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    • The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail
    • By: Stephen Taylor
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail and his role in Britain's trade, exploration, and warfare....

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    • 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 5,110 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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    • By: Brian Lavery
    • Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
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    • A Short History of Seafaring tells the 5,000 year history of the remarkable individuals who sailed seas, for trade, to conquer new lands, to explore the unknown.

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    • Warfare in Northern Europe, 750-1100
    • By: Philip Line
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 386 ratings
    • The Vikings had an extraordinary and far-reaching historical impact. From the eighth to the 11th centuries, they ranged across Europe - raiding, exploring, and colonizing....

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    • 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 1,387 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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    • The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild
    • By: Lee Sandlin Jeff
    • Narrated by: Jeff McCarthy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • Acclaimed journalist and author Lee Sandlin delivers a riveting glimpse of a dangerous and colorful place in America’s historical landscape....

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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: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 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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    • Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage
    • By: Sowande’ M Mustakeem
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 3,486 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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    • The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
    • By: William C. Davis
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • An "engrossing and exciting" account of legendary New Orleans privateers Pierre and Jean Laffite and their adventures along the Gulf Coast (Booklist, starred review)....

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