Maritime History & Piracy

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  • Men-of-War cover art

    • 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 70 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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    • 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 14 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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    • 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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    • Black Flags, Blue Waters

    • 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 out of 5 stars 37 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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    • 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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    • Mutiny on the Spanish Main

    • HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy’s Revenge
    • By: Angus Konstam
    • Narrated by: Sid Sagar
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • Mutiny on the Spanish Main tells the dramatic story of HMS Hermione, a British frigate which, in 1797, was the site of the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history, which saw the death of her captain and many of her officers....

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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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    • 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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    • Seapower States

    • 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 48 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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    • Enemy of All Mankind

    • A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings

    • From the New York Times best-selling author of The Ghost Map and Extra Life, the story of a pirate who changed the world....

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    • 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 14 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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    • Villains of All Nations

    • Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
    • By: Marcus Rediker
    • Narrated by: Cornell Womack
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 26-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • Villains of All Nations explores the "Golden Age" of Atlantic piracy (1716-1726) and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates....

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    • The Stolen Village

    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Great South Land

    • By: Rob Mundle
    • Narrated by: Paul English
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Between 1606 and 1688, while the British had their hands full with the Gunpowder Plot and the English Civil War, it was highly skilled Dutch seafarers who mapped the land masses....

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    • Barons of the Sea

    • By: Steven Ujifusa
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 17-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • In the grand tradition of David McCullough and Ron Chernow, the sweeping story of the 19th-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades....

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    • The Rest I Will Kill

    • William Tillman and the Unforgettable Story of How a Free Black Man Refused to Become a Slave
    • By: Brian McGinty
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 16-08-16
    • Language: English
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    • On July 4, 1861, the schooner S. J. Waring set sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days later it limped back into New York's harbor....

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