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Men Without Country
- The True Story of Exploration and Rebellion in the South Seas
- By: Harrison Christian
- Narrated by: David Tredinnick
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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Full of misadventure and mystery, Men Without Country is a sweeping history of exploration and rebellion in the South Seas - told by a direct descendant of Fletcher Christian, the man who led the infamous mutiny on the Bounty....
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fascinating read
- By kate on 22-04-2022
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
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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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A ripping yarn.
- By Tim on 16-11-2018
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The Boundless Sea
- A Human History of the Oceans
- By: David Abulafia
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 41 hrs and 2 mins
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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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Great
- By Anonymous User on 06-08-2020
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Hell Ship
- By: Michael Veitch
- Narrated by: Michael Veitch
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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The riveting story of one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history, the plague-stricken sailing ship Ticonderoga that left England for Victoria with 800 doomed emigrants on board....
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A must read of history interests you
- By Anonymous User on 16-05-2022
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Men Without Country
- The True Story of Exploration and Rebellion in the South Seas
- By: Harrison Christian
- Narrated by: David Tredinnick
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Full of misadventure and mystery, Men Without Country is a sweeping history of exploration and rebellion in the South Seas - told by a direct descendant of Fletcher Christian, the man who led the infamous mutiny on the Bounty....
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fascinating read
- By kate on 22-04-2022
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
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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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A ripping yarn.
- By Tim on 16-11-2018
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The Boundless Sea
- A Human History of the Oceans
- By: David Abulafia
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 41 hrs and 2 mins
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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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Great
- By Anonymous User on 06-08-2020
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Hell Ship
- By: Michael Veitch
- Narrated by: Michael Veitch
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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The riveting story of one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history, the plague-stricken sailing ship Ticonderoga that left England for Victoria with 800 doomed emigrants on board....
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A must read of history interests you
- By Anonymous User on 16-05-2022
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Three Sheets to the Wind
- By: Adam Courtenay
- Narrated by: James Saunders
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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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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Paradise in Chains
- The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia
- By: Diana Preston
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony....
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Fantastic Australian history
- By Jackson Dean on 21-05-2020
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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
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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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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Great South Land
- By: Rob Mundle
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Between 1606 and 1688, while the British had their hands full with the Gunpowder Plot and the English Civil War, it was highly skilled Dutch seafarers who mapped the land masses....
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great read/liston
- By Anonymous User on 10-06-2019
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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
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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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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
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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" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond....
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Well written, boring narration.
- By Jacob on 08-12-2020
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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
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A thrilling new adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of the New York Times best seller Shadow Divers....
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Great
- By Duncan on 15-03-2016
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Jack Tar
- Life in Nelson's Navy
- By: Lesley Adkins, Roy Adkins
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
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The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousands of sailors and marines to man the great wind-powered wooden warships....
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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
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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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The Outlaw Ocean
- Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier
- By: Ian Urbina
- Narrated by: Ian Urbina, Jason Culp
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
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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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What an adventure!
- By Kathy Klein on 24-03-2020
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth
- The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
- By: Julian Sancton
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
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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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Brilliant Read
- By jpublic on 02-05-2022
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Into the Deep
- A Memoir from the Man Who Found Titanic
- By: Robert D. Ballard, Christopher Drew
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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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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Waves Across the South
- A New History of Revolution and Empire
- By: Sujit Sivasundaram
- Narrated by: Raj Ghatak
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
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After revolutions in America and France, a wave of tumult coursed the globe from 1790 to 1850. It was a moment of unprecedented change and violence especially for indigenous peoples. By 1850 vibrant public debate between colonised communities had exploded in port cities....
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The Boundless Sea
- A Human History of the Oceans
- By: David Abulafia
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 41 hrs and 8 mins
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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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Under the Black Flag
- The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
- By: David Cordingly
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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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....
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Lacks narrative flair
- By mrs on 21-11-2015
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The Sailor’s Bookshelf
- Fifty Books to Know the Sea
- By: Adm. James Stavridis USN (Ret.)
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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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....
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The Ship Asunder
- A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels
- By: Tom Nancollas
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian steamship, the hull of a modest fishing vessel, the propeller of an ocean liner and an anchor made of stone....
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Seapower States
- 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
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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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Fascinating but let down by the narration.
- By Amazon Customer on 28-06-2020
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The History of the Vikings
- Norse Sagas, Medieval Marauders, and Far-Flung Settlements
- By: Chris R. Fee
- Narrated by: Chris R. Fee
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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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....
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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
- By: Keith Thomson
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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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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Phoenix Squadron
- HMS Ark Royal, Britain's Last Topguns and the Untold Story of Their Most Dramatic Mission
- By: Rowland White
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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January 1972: the tiny outpost of British Honduras is threatened with imminent invasion by battle-hardened, US-trained Guatemalan paratroopers. Britain's response must be immediate and decisive. But there is only one deterrent the government can offer: HMS Ark Royal....
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Indianapolis
- By: Lynn Vincent, Sara Vladic
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
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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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Pirate Women
- The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas
- By: Laura Sook Duncombe
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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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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Listen at x1.25 speed
- By Kelly on 25-06-2018
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Superstitions of the Sea
- A Digest of Beliefs, Customs, and Mystery
- By: James G. Clary
- Narrated by: John Rayment
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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Clary focuses on the vast array of strange, mythical, and often comical beliefs of mariners from ancient times to the present....