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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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Just as yesterday
- By luke.oconnor on 05-02-2020
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 30-10-2018
- Language: English
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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. This book traces the history of human movement and interaction around and across the world's greatest bodies of water, charting our relationship with the oceans from the time of the first voyagers.
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Tremendous Book
- By Derek Ironside-Hughes on 13-01-2023
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The Boundless Sea
- A Human History of the Oceans
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 41 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 19-12-2019
- Language: English
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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. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world’s oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to the unbridled extremes of human behaviour and activity.
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What an adventure!
- By Kathy Klein on 24-03-2020
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The Outlaw Ocean
- Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier
- Narrated by: Ian Urbina, Jason Culp
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 19-09-2019
- Language: English
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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 - 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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Fascinating but let down by the narration.
- By Amazon Customer on 28-06-2020
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Seapower States
- Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 27-11-2018
- Language: English
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The Wide Wide Sea
- By: Hampton Sides
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
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On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a conflict with native Hawaiians. How did Cook, who was unique among captains for his respect for Indigenous peoples and cultures, come to that fatal moment? Hampton Sides' account of Cook's last journey both wrestles with Cook's legacy and provides a narrative of the titanic efforts and continual danger that characterised exploration in the 1700s.
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The Wide Wide Sea
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 11-04-2024
- Language: English
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Great South Land
- By: Rob Mundle
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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For many, the colonial story of Australia starts with Captain Cook's discovery of the east coast in 1770, but it was some 164 years before his historic voyage that European mariners began their romance with the immensity of the Australian continent. 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 discovered and mapped the majority of the vast, unknown waters and land masses in the Indian and Southern Oceans.
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great read/liston
- By Anonymous User on 10-06-2019
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Great South Land
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 03-11-2015
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Slave Trade
- The White European Slaves of Islam
- By: Simon Webb
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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A century before Britain became involved in this terrible business, whole villages and towns in European countries were being depopulated by slavers, who transported the men, women, and children to Africa, where they were sold. This is the forgotten slave trade, one which saw over a million Christians forced into captivity in the Muslim world. Starting in the ancient world, Simon Webb traces the history of slavery in Europe, showing that the numbers involved were vast and that the victims were often treated far more cruelly than black slaves in America and the Caribbean.
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The Forgotten Slave Trade
- The White European Slaves of Islam
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 20-09-2022
- Language: English
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The Shipwreck Hunter
- A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor
- By: David L. Mearns
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
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David L. Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. The Shipwreck Hunter chronicles his most intriguing finds. It describes the extraordinary techniques used, the detailed research, and mid-ocean stamina and courage required to find a wreck thousands of feet beneath the sea, plus the moving human stories that lie behind each of these oceanic tragedies. Combining the adventuring derring-do of Indiana Jones with the precision of a scientist, The Shipwreck Hunter opens an illuminating porthole into the shadowy depths of the ocean.
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The Shipwreck Hunter
- A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 26-06-2018
- Language: English
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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 the course of history.
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Highly recommended
- By Anonymous User on 29-10-2023
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In Search of a Kingdom
- Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 16-03-2021
- Language: English
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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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August 1897: the Belgica set sail, eager to become the first scientific expedition to reach the white wilderness of the South Pole. But the ship soon became stuck fast in the ice of the Bellinghausen sea, condemning the ship's crew to overwintering in Antarctica and months of endless polar night. In the darkness, plagued by a mysterious illness, their minds ravaged by the sound of dozens of rats teeming in the hold, they descended into madness.
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Brilliant Read
- By jpublic on 02-05-2022
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth
- The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 18-05-2021
- Language: English
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Sons of the Waves
- The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail
- By: Stephen Taylor
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
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British maritime history in the age of sail is full of the deeds of officers like Nelson but has given little voice to plain, "illiterate" seamen. Now, Stephen Taylor draws on published and unpublished memoirs, letters, and naval records, including court-martials and petitions, to present these men in their own words. In this exhilarating account, ordinary seamen are far from the hapless sufferers of the press gangs.
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Great Listen
- By Derek Ironside-Hughes on 22-06-2023
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Sons of the Waves
- The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 19-05-2020
- Language: English
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The Middle East in the 20th Century
- By: Eamonn Gearon, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Professor Eamonn Gearon
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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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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Brilliant
- By Anonymous User on 20-11-2023
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The Middle East in the 20th Century
- Narrated by: Professor Eamonn Gearon
- Series: The Great Courses: Civilization & Culture
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 28-10-2021
- Language: English
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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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When Campbell & Clark, Scottish merchants based in India, dispatched an Indian ship hurriedly renamed the Sydney Cove to the colony of NSW in 1797, they were hoping to make their fortune. The ship's 'speculative' cargo included all kinds of products to entice the new colony's inhabitants, including 7,000 gallons of rum intended to be sold to the Rum Corp. But when the ship went down north of Van Diemen's Land, cargo master William Campbell and 16 other crew members decided to walk the 600 miles to Sydney Town to get help and rescue crew and cargo.
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Three Sheets to the Wind
- Narrated by: James Saunders
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 15-06-2022
- Language: English
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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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Henry Every was the 17th century’s most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular - and wildly inaccurate - reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Every’s most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering of a major shift in the global economy. Enemy of All Mankind focuses on one key event - the attack on an Indian treasure ship by Every and his crew - and its surprising repercussions across time and space.
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Important history, well told
- By James Wilson on 15-06-2023
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Enemy of All Mankind
- A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-05-2020
- Language: English
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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. For more than a century and a half, a grim tale has passed down through Michael Veitch’s family: the story of the Ticonderoga, a clipper ship that sailed from Liverpool in August 1852, crammed with poor but hopeful emigrants - mostly Scottish victims of the Clearances and the potato famine. A better life, they believed, awaited them in Australia.
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A must read of history interests you
- By Anonymous User on 16-05-2022
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Hell Ship
- Narrated by: Michael Veitch
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 01-11-2018
- Language: English
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Sailing Alone
- A History
- By: Richard J. King
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
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Sailing on a boat by yourself out at sea and out of sight of land can be exhilarating or terrifying, compelling or tedious - sometimes it can be all of these things just in one morning. It is an adventure at odds with our normal, sociable lives, carried out floating on a medium wholly inimical to our existence. But the deep ocean is also a remarkable place on which to think. Richard King's enormously engaging and curious book is about the debt we owe to solo sailors: women and men, young and old, who have set out alone.
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Sailing Alone
- A History
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 07-09-2023
- Language: English
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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" 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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A great snapshot of the Golden age of Piracy.
- By Anonymous User on 17-08-2022
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Black Flags, Blue Waters
- The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 16-10-2018
- Language: English
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
- By: David Graeber
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
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Madagascar's lost pirate utopia represents some of the first stirrings of Enlightenment political thought. In this jewel of a book, he offers a way to 'decolonise the Enlightenment', demonstrating how this mixed community experimented with an alternative vision of human freedom, far from that being formulated in the salons and coffee houses of Europe. Its actors were Malagasy women, merchants and traders, philosopher kings and escaped slaves, exploring ideas that were ultimately to be put into practice in by Western revolutionary regimes a century later.
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 26-01-2023
- Language: English
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The Sea Hunters 2
- By: Clive Cussler, Craig Dirgo
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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For decades, Clive Cussler's real-life NUMA®, the National Underwater and Marine Agency, has scoured rivers and seas in search of lost ships of historic significance. His teams have been inundated by tidal waves and beset by obstacles - both human and natural - but the results, and the stories behind them, have been dramatic. Here Cussler and colleague Craig Dirgo provide an extraordinary narrative of their true seagoing - and land - adventures.
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The Sea Hunters 2
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 02-11-2023
- Language: English
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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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For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and records to produce a most authoritative and definitive account of piracy's "Golden Age." As he explodes many accepted 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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Under the Black Flag
- The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 29-11-2011
- Language: English
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