Bestsellers
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Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- By: Alfred Lansing
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice
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The best book I've had
- By Thomas Allen on 09-17-08
By: Alfred Lansing
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The Gales of November
- The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
- By: John U. Bacon
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Focused on those directly affected by the tragedy, The Gales of November is both an emotional tribute to the lives lost and a propulsive, thrilling narrative history of America’s most-mourned maritime disaster.
By: John U. Bacon
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Dead Wake
- The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants....
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Naivety VS Barbarians Of War
- By Sara on 03-05-16
By: Erik Larson
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In the Kingdom of Ice
- The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
- By: Hampton Sides
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded Age....
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Superb tale that unravels at an iceburg's pace
- By Mel on 03-19-15
By: Hampton Sides
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Batavia
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 17 hrs
- Unabridged
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The story begins in 1629, when the pride of the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, is on its maiden voyage en route from Amsterdam to the Dutch East Indies, laden down with the greatest treasure to leave Holland....
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Disaster, Mutiny, Murder, Survival
- By Todd on 02-07-13
By: Peter FitzSimons
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Barracoon
- The Story of the Last ""Black Cargo""
- By: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God that brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade....
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skip the introduction!
- By Earin on 10-16-18
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Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- By: Alfred Lansing
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice
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The best book I've had
- By Thomas Allen on 09-17-08
By: Alfred Lansing
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The Gales of November
- The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
- By: John U. Bacon
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Focused on those directly affected by the tragedy, The Gales of November is both an emotional tribute to the lives lost and a propulsive, thrilling narrative history of America’s most-mourned maritime disaster.
By: John U. Bacon
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Dead Wake
- The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants....
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Naivety VS Barbarians Of War
- By Sara on 03-05-16
By: Erik Larson
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In the Kingdom of Ice
- The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
- By: Hampton Sides
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded Age....
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Superb tale that unravels at an iceburg's pace
- By Mel on 03-19-15
By: Hampton Sides
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Batavia
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 17 hrs
- Unabridged
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Performance
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The story begins in 1629, when the pride of the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, is on its maiden voyage en route from Amsterdam to the Dutch East Indies, laden down with the greatest treasure to leave Holland....
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Disaster, Mutiny, Murder, Survival
- By Todd on 02-07-13
By: Peter FitzSimons
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Barracoon
- The Story of the Last ""Black Cargo""
- By: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God that brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade....
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skip the introduction!
- By Earin on 10-16-18
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The Great Halifax Explosion
- A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism
- By: John U. Bacon
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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From best-selling author John U. Bacon, a gripping narrative history of the largest manmade detonation prior to Hiroshima....
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Too much hostility towards Americans
- By bigdaddyKT on 12-14-19
By: John U. Bacon
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Stalking the Red Bear
- The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine's Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union
- By: Peter Sasgen
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commanding officer of a nuclear submarine during the Cold War....
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How it really was on Fast Attack Subs in the 1970’s
- By James B. Cookinham on 01-26-18
By: Peter Sasgen
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Engrossing
- By Trish on 04-20-22
By: Brian Murphy, and others
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A Night to Remember
- The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic
- By: Walter Lord
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The Titanic collided with an iceberg on April 14, and 1,500 people died in the freezing waters. It's a story that has spurred legends and still sends shivers down the spine....
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A gripping story grounded in historical fact
- By Abigail Carney on 05-30-20
By: Walter Lord
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The Great Museum of the Sea
- A Human History of Shipwrecks
- By: James P. Delgado
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The sea is the largest museum on earth, with more than a million lost ships resting in its depths. Those shipwrecks date back thousands of years, some from civilizations long vanished, others from more recent history. Some are famous, others obscure and unremembered but each has a story to tell.
By: James P. Delgado
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Ten Hours Until Dawn
- The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do
- By: Michael J. Tougias
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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He gathered his crew of four, readied his 49-foot steel boat, the Can Do, and entered the maelstrom of the blizzard that was to become known as the "Storm of the Century"....
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A riveting story
- By Christopher on 11-30-07
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Along Lake Michigan
- Shipwreck Stories of Life and Loss
- By: Michael Schumacher
- Narrated by: Dean Gallagher
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The Great Lakes are graveyards of a vast number of shipwrecks (30,000 by some estimates), and Lake Michigan has more than the other four lakes combined. The stories of those wrecks tell the history of that mighty lake in its endless, mercurial challenge to human endeavor.
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Great Storytelling
- By UnreliableHeart on 09-04-25
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Sailing Alone Around the World
- By: Joshua Slocum
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Joshua Slocum was believed to be the first man to sail single-handed around the world....
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A REMARKABLE MAN
- By Rod on 05-03-06
By: Joshua Slocum
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The Dive
- The Untold Story of the World's Deepest Submarine Rescue
- By: Stephen McGinty
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1973, a routine dive to the telecommunication cable that snakes along the Atlantic sea bed went badly wrong. Pisces III, with Roger Chapman and Roger Mallinson onboard, had tried to surface when a catastrophic fault suddenly sent the mini-submarine tumbling to the ocean bed....
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Intriguing and suspenseful
- By NinaDP on 06-24-23
By: Stephen McGinty
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Endeavour
- The Ship That Changed the World
- By: Peter Moore
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 19 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Endeavour is the story of a ship, an idea, and a way of looking at the world. It is grounded in the Enlightenment, an age of endeavors, with Britain consumed by the impulse for grand projects undertaken at speed....
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You must endeavor to stick with Endeavour
- By vance van petten on 08-03-19
By: Peter Moore
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Launching Liberty
- The Epic Race to Build the Ships That Took America to War
- By: Doug Most
- Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Out of nothing but the government’s behest, a few bold men conjured a giant ship-building industry in 1940 and launched the ships that took America to war and to victory.
By: Doug Most
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Ghost Ship
- The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew
- By: Brian Hicks
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo-and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew....
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A long expansion of a single event
- By An Escaped Mind on 09-23-25
By: Brian Hicks
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Deadliest Sea
- The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History
- By: Kalee Thompson
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Deadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson is the spellbinding true story of the greatest rescue in US Coast Guard history. Recounting the tragic sinking of the fishing trawler, Alaska Ranger, in the Bering Sea and its remarkable aftermath in March 2008....
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Good story line
- By Jayson on 03-31-20
By: Kalee Thompson
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Great!
- By Andrea C. Shebuski on 01-10-21
By: Greg King, and others
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A General History of the Pyrates
- From Their First Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the Present Time
- By: Daniel Defoe
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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This work is the prime source for the biographies of many well-known pirates of that era and shaped the popular notions about pirates of the day....
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Horrendous Waste of John Lee’s Time and Ours
- By Blake on 01-22-20
By: Daniel Defoe
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Other Side of the Night
- The Carpathia, the Californian and the Night the Titanic Was Lost
- By: Daniel Allen Butler
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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A few minutes before midnight on April 14, 1912, the "unsinkable" RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage to New York, struck an iceberg....
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The Other Side of the Night
- By Amazon Customer on 04-19-15
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Rescue of the Bounty
- Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy
- By: Michael J. Tougias, Douglas A. Campbell
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Rescue of the Bounty is the harrowing story of the sinking and rescue of Bounty - the tall ship used in the classic 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty....
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Much heavier focus on sailing than rescue
- By Samuel Roda on 05-23-16
By: Michael J. Tougias, and others
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Four Weeks in May
- The Loss of HMS Coventry
- By: David Hart Dyke
- Narrated by: Paul Blake
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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On 25 May 1982, at a critical juncture in the Falklands War, the destroyer HMS Coventry was attacked by Argentinean aircraft....
By: David Hart Dyke
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How to Build an Aircraft Carrier
- The Incredible Story of the Men and Women Who Brought Britain’s Biggest Warship to Life
- By: Chris Terrill
- Narrated by: Adam James
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Hear the enthralling story of the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy's largest ever warship....
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Storytelling and narrator
- By J. Joseph W. on 04-01-24
By: Chris Terrill
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Shadow of the Titanic
- The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived
- By: Andrew Wilson
- Narrated by: David Pickering
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished letters, memoirs, diaries, and interviews with their family members, award-winning journalist Andrew Wilson brings to life a riveting and groundbreaking account of what happened to the survivors of the Titanic.
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Disappointing
- By John Crowley on 05-18-25
By: Andrew Wilson
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Into the Raging Sea
- Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of the El Faro
- By: Rachel Slade
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in the worst American shipping disaster in 35 years....
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This Book is Tragic for More Than Just its Story
- By John A. Tucker on 10-23-19
By: Rachel Slade
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The Mayflower
- The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America
- By: Rebecca Fraser
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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A vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world....
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I kept saying "Oh My Goodness!"
- By Midwestern on 11-29-19
By: Rebecca Fraser
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The Sea Hunters II
- By: Craig Dirgo, Clive Cussler
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Abridged
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From the authors of the number-one best-selling The Sea Hunters comes more unforgettable true adventures with famous shipwrecks. ....
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A wonderful insight into Clive Cussler.
- By Rjs194943 on 02-14-18
By: Craig Dirgo, and others
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In the Wake of Madness
- The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon
- By: Joan Druett
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The gripping true story of one of the 19th century's bloodiest mutinies....
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Love this author.
- By David H. on 07-15-17
By: Joan Druett
New releases
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The Gales of November
- The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
- By: John U. Bacon
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Gales of November, award-winning journalist John U. Bacon presents the definitive account of the disaster, drawing on more than 100 interviews with the families, friends, and former crewmates of those lost. Bacon explores the vital role Great Lakes shipping played in America’s economic boom, the uncommon lives the sailors led, the sinking’s most likely causes, and the heartbreaking aftermath for those left behind—“the wives, the sons, and the daughters,” as Gordon Lightfoot sang in his unforgettable ballad.
By: John U. Bacon
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The Great Museum of the Sea
- A Human History of Shipwrecks
- By: James P. Delgado
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The sea is the largest museum on earth, with more than a million lost ships resting in its depths. Those shipwrecks date back thousands of years, some from civilizations long vanished, others from more recent history. Some are famous, others obscure and unremembered but each has a story to tell. In The Great Museum of the Sea, archaeologist, museum director, television host, journalist, and award-winning author James Delgado takes the listener on a personal tour of the world's wrecks, including many of the more than a hundred lost ships he has personally discovered and investigated.
By: James P. Delgado
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Beneath the Waves
- Tragedy and Lessons Learned from Maritime Disasters
- By: Kam Ng, ChatGPT
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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This eBook on maritime disasters takes readers across more than a century of human ambition, misjudgment, and resilience at sea. It begins with the Titanic, the ship once declared unsinkable, whose tragic end in the icy Atlantic exposed the dangers of overconfidence and inadequate preparedness. From there, the story moves through wartime tragedy with the Wilhelm Gustloff, where the desperation of refugees and the violence of conflict created the deadliest shipwreck in history, and continues with the Doña Paz in the Philippines, a collision that claimed thousands of civilian lives in ...
By: Kam Ng, and others
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The History of Mason Barney's Shipyard and Swansea, Massachusetts
- By: Russell Easterbrooks, Holly Easterbrooks Neville
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The History of Mason Barney's Shipyard and Swansea, Massachusetts Carl Sagan once said, “To read is to voyage through time.” This book is your boarding pass to the colonial heart of Swansea, Massachusetts, a place where myth, industry, and faith converged on the banks of the Palmer River. Step into the bustling world of Mason Barney’s legendary shipyard, where over 150 vessels were crafted by hand, from nimble fishing boats to towering ships of over 1,000 tons. Discover the rise of Barneyville, once known as Bungtown, a thriving maritime hub where coopers shaped barrels, cannons were ...
By: Russell Easterbrooks, and others
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The Sea Knights of Malta
- The Hospitallers’ naval war against the Ottomans, corsairs, and the slave economies of the Mediterranean
- By: Lucid H
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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War at sea made and broke lives across the Mediterranean. This book follows the Order of St. John as they face the Ottoman Empire and North African corsairs from 1291 to 1798. It shows how galleys, forts, and prize courts turned raids into a working system that relied on captives and ransom. The story moves from Rhodes to Malta. It covers the 1480 and 1522 sieges of Rhodes, the 1530 move to Malta, the Great Siege of 1565, the Holy League victory at Lepanto, long fights with Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, the rise of sailing ships, and the end in 1798. Each chapter uses records from both ...
By: Lucid H
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The Golden Age of Piracy
- The real lives of pirates and privateers in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean. The economics, law, violence, and surprising democracies at sea
- By: Lucid Historian
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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A pilgrim ship screams under cannon fire in the Arabian Sea. In a ruined Bahamian fort, a ragged assembly raises hands to vote. Between those moments lies the true story of the Golden Age of Piracy: a world where money, law, and fear shaped ruthless violence and unexpected democracies at sea. The Golden Age of Piracy rips past the clichés to reveal the real lives of pirates and privateers from Port Royal to Madagascar. It shows how war-born sailors turned to plunder when peace cut their pay, how letters of marque turned theft into property, and how crews wrote their own shipboard ...
By: Lucid Historian
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The Gales of November
- The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
- By: John U. Bacon
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In The Gales of November, award-winning journalist John U. Bacon presents the definitive account of the disaster, drawing on more than 100 interviews with the families, friends, and former crewmates of those lost. Bacon explores the vital role Great Lakes shipping played in America’s economic boom, the uncommon lives the sailors led, the sinking’s most likely causes, and the heartbreaking aftermath for those left behind—“the wives, the sons, and the daughters,” as Gordon Lightfoot sang in his unforgettable ballad.
By: John U. Bacon
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The Great Museum of the Sea
- A Human History of Shipwrecks
- By: James P. Delgado
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
The sea is the largest museum on earth, with more than a million lost ships resting in its depths. Those shipwrecks date back thousands of years, some from civilizations long vanished, others from more recent history. Some are famous, others obscure and unremembered but each has a story to tell. In The Great Museum of the Sea, archaeologist, museum director, television host, journalist, and award-winning author James Delgado takes the listener on a personal tour of the world's wrecks, including many of the more than a hundred lost ships he has personally discovered and investigated.
By: James P. Delgado
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Beneath the Waves
- Tragedy and Lessons Learned from Maritime Disasters
- By: Kam Ng, ChatGPT
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
This eBook on maritime disasters takes readers across more than a century of human ambition, misjudgment, and resilience at sea. It begins with the Titanic, the ship once declared unsinkable, whose tragic end in the icy Atlantic exposed the dangers of overconfidence and inadequate preparedness. From there, the story moves through wartime tragedy with the Wilhelm Gustloff, where the desperation of refugees and the violence of conflict created the deadliest shipwreck in history, and continues with the Doña Paz in the Philippines, a collision that claimed thousands of civilian lives in ...
By: Kam Ng, and others
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The History of Mason Barney's Shipyard and Swansea, Massachusetts
- By: Russell Easterbrooks, Holly Easterbrooks Neville
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
The History of Mason Barney's Shipyard and Swansea, Massachusetts Carl Sagan once said, “To read is to voyage through time.” This book is your boarding pass to the colonial heart of Swansea, Massachusetts, a place where myth, industry, and faith converged on the banks of the Palmer River. Step into the bustling world of Mason Barney’s legendary shipyard, where over 150 vessels were crafted by hand, from nimble fishing boats to towering ships of over 1,000 tons. Discover the rise of Barneyville, once known as Bungtown, a thriving maritime hub where coopers shaped barrels, cannons were ...
By: Russell Easterbrooks, and others
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The Sea Knights of Malta
- The Hospitallers’ naval war against the Ottomans, corsairs, and the slave economies of the Mediterranean
- By: Lucid H
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
War at sea made and broke lives across the Mediterranean. This book follows the Order of St. John as they face the Ottoman Empire and North African corsairs from 1291 to 1798. It shows how galleys, forts, and prize courts turned raids into a working system that relied on captives and ransom. The story moves from Rhodes to Malta. It covers the 1480 and 1522 sieges of Rhodes, the 1530 move to Malta, the Great Siege of 1565, the Holy League victory at Lepanto, long fights with Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, the rise of sailing ships, and the end in 1798. Each chapter uses records from both ...
By: Lucid H
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The Golden Age of Piracy
- The real lives of pirates and privateers in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean. The economics, law, violence, and surprising democracies at sea
- By: Lucid Historian
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
A pilgrim ship screams under cannon fire in the Arabian Sea. In a ruined Bahamian fort, a ragged assembly raises hands to vote. Between those moments lies the true story of the Golden Age of Piracy: a world where money, law, and fear shaped ruthless violence and unexpected democracies at sea. The Golden Age of Piracy rips past the clichés to reveal the real lives of pirates and privateers from Port Royal to Madagascar. It shows how war-born sailors turned to plunder when peace cut their pay, how letters of marque turned theft into property, and how crews wrote their own shipboard ...
By: Lucid Historian