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  • Mutiny on the Bounty cover art

    • Mutiny on the Bounty

    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Michael Carman
    • Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 464 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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    • Men-of-War

    • Life in Nelson’s Navy
    • By: Patrick O’Brian
    • Narrated by: Ronald Pickup
    • Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings

    • What was daily life in Nelson's navy really like, for everyone from the captain down to the rawest recruit? What did they eat? What songs did they sing? What was the schedule of watches? How were the officers and crew paid, and what was the division of prize-money? Find out....

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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
    • Release date: 11-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings

    • 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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    • 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: 06-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 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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    • 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: 18-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 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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  • On a Sea of Glass 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: 09-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 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 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
    • Release date: 04-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • 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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    • The Forgotten Slave Trade

    • The White European Slaves of Islam
    • By: Simon Webb
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 20-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings

    • A century before Britain became involved in this terrible business, whole villages and towns in England, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and other European countries were being depopulated by slavers, who transported the men, women, and children to Africa, where they were sold....

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    • Seashaken Houses

    • A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet
    • By: Tom Nancollas
    • Narrated by: David Monteath
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 30-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings

    • Lighthouses are striking totems of our relationship to the sea. For many, they encapsulate a romantic vision of solitary homes amongst the waves, but their original purpose is much more utilitarian than that....

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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
    • Release date: 16-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 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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    • Adrift

    • A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Who Lived to Tell About It
    • By: Brian Murphy, Toula Vlahou
    • Narrated by: Dan Warren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 hit an iceberg that tore the ship asunder. Five lifeboats were lowered. On one were 13 souls. Only one would survive. This is his story....

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    • Brilliant Beacons

    • A History of the American Lighthouse
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 18-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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....

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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
    • Release date: 26-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

    • The Shipwreck Hunter chronicles David L. Mearns' most intriguing finds. It describes the extraordinary techniques used, the detailed research, and the courage required to find a wreck thousands of feet beneath the sea, plus the moving human stories that lie behind these tragedies....

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    • So Others May Live

    • Coast Guard's Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death
    • By: Martha Laguardia-Kotite, Tom Ridge
    • Narrated by: Jim Cooper, Martha Laguardia-Kotite
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • So Others May Live: Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death is the award-winning untold story of the US Coast Guard's quiet but resolute rescue swimmers....

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    • Sinkable

    • 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: 16-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 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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  • The Code of the Zombie Pirate cover art

    • The Code of the Zombie Pirate

    • How to Become an Undead Master of the High Seas
    • By: Scott Kenemore
    • Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark
    • Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Yet another brilliant entry in Kenemore’s zombie canon - Cap’n Hook meets the undead.....

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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
    • Release date: 29-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 19-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 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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