Maritime English

Product list
  • Regular price: £15.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: £15.99 or 1 Credit

    • 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: 27-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 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....

    Regular price: £21.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: £21.99 or 1 Credit

    • 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: 16-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 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....

    Regular price: £18.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: £18.99 or 1 Credit

    • 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....

    Regular price: £18.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: £18.99 or 1 Credit

  • Regular price: £20.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: £20.99 or 1 Credit

    • 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.....

    Regular price: £11.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: £11.99 or 1 Credit

    • Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage
    • By: Sowande’ M Mustakeem
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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....

    Regular price: £15.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: £15.99 or 1 Credit

    • By: Charles D. Stanton
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 19 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In a world of few roads and great disorder, the sea is the medium on which power is projected and wealth sought. Yet this confused period in the history of maritime warfare has rarely been studied; it is little known and even less understood....

    Regular price: £16.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: £16.99 or 1 Credit

    • Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644–1865
    • By: Sean M. Kelley
    • Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
    • Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 30-05-23
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • Historian Sean M. Kelley tells the unknown story of America's two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation....

    Regular price: £16.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: £16.99 or 1 Credit

    • 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 35 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....

    Regular price: £7.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: £7.99 or 1 Credit

    • A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate
    • By: Jared Ross Hardesty
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 14-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • On the night of June 1, 1743, terror struck the schooner Rising Sun. After completing a routine smuggling voyage where the crew sold enslaved Africans in exchange for chocolate, sugar, and coffee in the Dutch colony of Suriname, the ship traveled eastward along the South American coast....

    Regular price: £15.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: £15.99 or 1 Credit

    • 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: 01-02-22
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • An "engrossing and exciting" account of legendary New Orleans privateers Pierre and Jean Laffite and their adventures along the Gulf Coast (Booklist, starred review)....

    Regular price: £20.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: £20.99 or 1 Credit

    • A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels
    • By: Tom Nancollas
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • 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....

    Regular price: £12.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: £12.99 or 1 Credit

    • 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 67 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....

    Regular price: £16.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: £16.99 or 1 Credit

    • By: Clive Cussler, Craig Dirgo
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Clive Cussler and colleague Craig Dirgo provide an extraordinary narrative of their true seagoing - and land - adventures....

    Regular price: £12.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: £12.99 or 1 Credit

    • 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....

    Regular price: £21.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: £21.99 or 1 Credit

    • Britain's Maritime Struggle in the Atlantic and Northwest Europe, 1939-1945
    • By: Brian E. Walter
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The Longest Campaign tells the epic story of British sea power in the Second World War....

    Regular price: £16.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: £16.99 or 1 Credit

    • By: David Gibbins
    • Narrated by: Richard Burnip
    • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A rich and exciting narrative, this is not just the story of ships and the people who sailed on them, the cargo and treasure they carried and their tragic fate. This is also the story of the spread of people, religion and ideas around the world....

    Regular price: £12.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: £12.99 or 1 Credit

    • 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 101 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....

    Regular price: £11.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: £11.99 or 1 Credit

    • Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern World 1788-1851 (The Maritime Trilogy, Book 2)
    • By: Peter Padfield
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Series: The Maritime Trilogy, Book 2
    • Length: 19 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 15-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom, Peter Padfield presents a superb description and analysis of naval campaigns conducted between 1788 and 1851 that shaped the modern world....

    Regular price: £16.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: £16.99 or 1 Credit