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  • Mutiny on the Bounty cover art

    • Mutiny on the Bounty

    • 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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    • 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 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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    • 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
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 out of 5 stars 8 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • In Search of a Kingdom

    • Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
    • By: Laurence Bergreen
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

    • In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan, Columbus, and Marco Polo brings alive the singular life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, the pirate/explorer/admiral whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed....

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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 25 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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    • The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria

    • The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship
    • By: Greg King, Penny Wilson
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • In the tradition of Erik Larson's Dead Wake comes The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria, about the sinking of the glamorous Italian ocean liner....

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    • The Pirate World

    • A History of the Most Notorious Sea Robbers
    • By: Angus Konstam
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 19-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • Often romanticized in print and on the silver screen, real-life pirates were a brutal menace that plagued the high seas. In this book, Angus Konstam separates myth from reality, tracing the history of piracy through the centuries....

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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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    • Predator of the Seas

    • A History of the Slaveship that Fought for Emancipation
    • By: Stephen Taylor
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • The dramatic biography of a slaveship turned freedom-fighter-which brings new insights into Britain's involvement in the end of the trade in enslaved people.

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    • Brilliant Beacons

    • 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....

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    • Why We Love Pirates

    • The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever
    • By: Rebecca Simon PhD
    • Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 84 ratings

    • During his life and even after his death, Captain William Kidd’s name was known around England and the American colonies. He was infamous for the very crime for which he was hanged, piracy. This book by Rebecca Simon dives into the details of the two-year manhunt for Captain Kidd....

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    • So Others May Live

    • Coast Guard's Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death
    • By: Martha Laguardia-Kotite, Tom Ridge
    • Narrated by: Jim Cooper, Martha Laguardia-Kotite
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • So Others May Live: Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death is the award-winning untold story of the US Coast Guard's quiet but resolute rescue swimmers....

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    • Adrift

    • A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Who Lived to Tell About It
    • By: Brian Murphy, Toula Vlahou
    • Narrated by: Dan Warren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 hit an iceberg that tore the ship asunder. Five lifeboats were lowered. On one were 13 souls. Only one would survive. This is his story....

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