Maritime History

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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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    • 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....

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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 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....

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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 161 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 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
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    • 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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    • 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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    • By: Charles D. Stanton
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 19 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-19
    • Language: English
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    • 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....

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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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    • 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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    • A Digest of Beliefs, Customs, and Mystery
    • By: James G. Clary
    • Narrated by: John Rayment
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Clary focuses on the vast array of strange, mythical, and often comical beliefs of mariners from ancient times to the present....

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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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    • 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 452 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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    • 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 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
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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" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond....

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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
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 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 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 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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    • 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....

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    • By: Hampton Sides
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • 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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