Maritime English

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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: 16-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 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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    • 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 45 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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    • 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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    • A Human History of the Oceans
    • By: David Abulafia
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 41 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 19-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • 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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    • 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....

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    • 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....

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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: 13-04-21
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • 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....

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    • HMS Ark Royal, Britain's Last Topguns and the Untold Story of Their Most Dramatic Mission
    • By: Rowland White
    • Narrated by: Roy McMillan
    • Series: Rowland White, Book 2
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 68 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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    • The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy
    • By: Sean Kingsley, Rex Cowan
    • Narrated by: Rob Vlock
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • Sean Kingsley and Rex Cowan tell the incredible story of the “Robin Hood of the Seas,” who absconded with millions during the Golden Age of Piracy and who harbored an even greater secret.

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    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • 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....

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    • 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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    • 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....

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    • The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance
    • By: Mensun Bound
    • Narrated by: Charles Armstrong, Mensun Bound
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of how the world’s most famous shipwreck was found, told by the man leading the search....

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    • 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 10 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....

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    • The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World
    • By: Charlie Connelly
    • Narrated by: David Thorpe
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • A bulwark against invasion, a conduit for exchange and a challenge to be conquered, the English Channel has always been many things to many people....

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