Maritime History & Piracy

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  • Empire of Ice and Stone cover art

    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • The Pirate King

    • 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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    • The Code of the Zombie Pirate

    • How to Become an Undead Master of the High Seas
    • By: Scott Kenemore
    • Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark
    • Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Yet another brilliant entry in Kenemore’s zombie canon - Cap’n Hook meets the undead.....

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    • The Spice Ports

    • Mapping the Origins of the Global Sea Trade
    • By: Nicholas Nugent
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • We may think of "globalism" as a recent development but its origins date back to the fifteenth century and beyond, when seafarers pioneered routes across the oceans with the objectives of exploration, trade, and profit.

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • A Brief History of the Atlantic

    • By: Jeremy Black
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. Jeremy Black takes the listener through its evolution to becoming one of the most important oceans in the world....

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    • Woman, Captain, Rebel

    • The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain
    • By: Margaret Willson
    • Narrated by: Ann Richardson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-23
    • Language: English
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    • History would have us believe the sea has always been a male realm, the idea of female captains almost unthinkable. But there is one exception, so notable she defies any expectation. This is her remarkable story....

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    • To Rule the Waves

    • How Control of the World's Oceans Determines the Fate of the Superpowers
    • By: Bruce Jones
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • For centuries, oceans were the chessboard on which empires battled for supremacy. But in the nuclear age, air power and missile systems dominated our worries about security, and for the United States, the economy was largely driven by domestic production....

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    • Wrecked on a Reef

    • Twenty Months among the Auckland Isles
    • By: F.E. Raynal
    • Narrated by: Charles Robert Fox
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 14-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • In December 1864, five men stood on the desolate shore of a subantarctic island watching their ship break apart in the waves and sunken rocks as they contemplated an uncertain fate.

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    • Slavery at Sea

    • 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 Dutch Moment

    • 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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    • The Sunken Gold

    • A Story of World War I Espionage and the Greatest Treasure Salvage in History
    • By: Joseph A. Williams
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • More than an incredible story about undersea diving adventure, The Sunken Gold is a story of human persistence, bravery, and patriotism....

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    • The Golden Age of Piracy

    • A Captivating Guide to the Role of Pirates in Maritime History During the Early Modern Period, Including Stories of Anne Bonny, Sir Francis Drake, and William Kidd
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • The history of the Golden Age of Piracy, the one that has shaped the modern conception of a pirate, is complex and long, with lots of information to cover....

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    • Saved at the Seawall

    • Stories from the September 11 Boat Lift
    • By: Jessica DuLong, Mitchell Zuckoff - foreword
    • Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Saved at the Seawall is the definitive history of the largest ever waterborne evacuation. Jessica DuLong reveals the dramatic story of how the New York Harbor maritime community heroically delivered stranded commuters, residents, and visitors out of harm's way....

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