Maritime History

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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 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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    • 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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    • 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 47 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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    • By: Hampton Sides
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides comes an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day....

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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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    • 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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    • By: Brian Lavery
    • Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-22
    • Language: English
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    • Discover a fascinating journey through more than 5,000 years of seafaring history in this essential guide to the most impressive seafaring tales, explorers and maritime environments....

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    • A History
    • By: Richard J. King
    • Narrated by: William Hope
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 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....

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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
    • 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....

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    • The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
    • By: Julian Sancton
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
    • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 18-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 231 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 460 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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    • 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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    • War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
    • By: Wim Klooster
    • Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast....

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    • A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle
    • By: Mark E. Stille
    • Narrated by: John Chancer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Pacific War expert Mark Stille examines the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War....

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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 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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    • Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates
    • By: Des Ekin
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 14-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The Stolen Village is a fascinating tale of international piracy and culture clash nearly 400 years ago and is the first book to cover this relatively unknown and under-researched incident in Irish history....

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