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It is 1780, and 17-year-old Alan Lewrie is a brash, rebellious young libertine. So much so that his callous father believes a bit of naval discipline will turn the boy around. Fresh aboard the tall-masted Ariadne, Midshipman Lewrie heads for the war-torn Americas, finding - rather unexpectedly - that he is a born sailor, equally at home with the randy pleasures of the port and the raging battles on the high seas. But in a hail of cannonballs comes a bawdy surprise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"Sex, Swords, Sailing Ships"
- By Andrew on 05-16-10
By: Dewey Lambdin
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Sea of Poppies
- Ibis Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrated by: Phil Gigante
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 750
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 514
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At the heart of this vibrant saga is an immense ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its purpose to fight China's vicious 19th-century Opium Wars. As for the crew, they are a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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ignorance may be bliss
- By Evelyn M Kloepper on 07-27-09
By: Amitav Ghosh
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To Risks Unknown
- By: Douglas Reeman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37
The year: 1943. Now there was to be no more retreat for Britain and her Allies. At last the war was to be carried into enemy territory. And from captured bases and makeshift harbours in North Africa, the Royal Navy's Special Force was to be the probe and the spearhead of the advance. To this unorthodox war came the corvette H. M. S. Thistle and her commanding officer, John Crispin.
By: Douglas Reeman
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Quillifer
- Quillifer, Book 1
- By: Walter Jon Williams
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 147
Quillifer is young, serially in love, studying law, and living each day keenly aware that his beloved homeport of Ethlebight risks closure due to silting of the harbor. His concerns for the future become much more immediate when he returns from a summery assignation to find his city attacked by Aekoi pirates, leading to brigands in the streets and his family and friends in chains.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The opposite of George R R Martin (in a good way)
- By A reader on 10-30-17
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By the Mast Divided
- John Pearce, Book 1
- By: David Donachie
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 167
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Story4 out of 5 stars 108
London: 1793. Young firebrand John Pearce, on the run from the authorities, is illegally press-ganged from the Pelican tavern into brutal life aboard HMS Brilliant, a frigate on her way to war. In the first few days, Pearce discovers the Navy is a world in which he can prosper. And he is not alone; he is drawn to a group of men who eventually form an exclusive gun crew, the Pelicans, with Pearce their elected leader.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Didn't work for me
- By Michael E on 07-23-08
By: David Donachie
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Under the Black Ensign
- By: L. Ron Hubbard
- Narrated by: Marisol Nichols
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Long before Captain Jack Sparrow raised hell with the Pirates of the Caribbean, Tom Bristol sailed to hell and back Under the Black Ensign. That’s where the real adventure begins. Bristol’s had plenty of bad luck in his life. Press-ganged into serving aboard a British vessel, he’s served under the threat of the cruel captain’s lash on his back. Then, freed from his servitude by pirates, his good fortune immediately takes a bad turn...as the pirates accuse him of murder - and leave him to die on a deserted island.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A fun Pirate adventure!
- By Miles Forman on 12-08-22
By: L. Ron Hubbard
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'Slaves of Sleep' and 'The Masters of Sleep'
- By: L. Ron Hubbard
- Narrated by: Rene Auberjonois
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Young, wealthy, and good-looking, Jan Palmer leads the kind of life most of us would die for. He has it all - except for one thing: happiness. Trapped under the weight of his responsibilities to his family, his business, and his life, he wishes only to escape to another world. But you have to be careful what you wish for. Waking out of a deep sleep, Jan finally finds escape - into a living nightmare.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible. Spellbinding. Hubbard is a genius!
- By Freddie Ulan on 07-22-18
By: L. Ron Hubbard
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Into the Storm
- Destroyermen, Book 1
- By: Taylor Anderson
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,289
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,301
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,299
Pressed into service when World War II breaks out in the Pacific, the USS Walker---a Great-War vintage "four-stacker" destroyer---finds itself in full retreat from pursuit by Japanese battleships. Its captain, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, knows that he and his crew are in dire straits. In desperation, he heads Walker into a squall, hoping it will give them cover---and emerges somewhere else.
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3 out of 5 stars
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It just never grabbed me.
- By Lore on 05-01-12
By: Taylor Anderson
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 786
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 681
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Story5 out of 5 stars 677
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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5 out of 5 stars
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You don't know the whole story.
- By Justin Sluyter on 05-01-19
By: Peter FitzSimons
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Treasure Island
- By: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrated by: Gabriel Woolf
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
First published in 1883, Treasure Island remains one of Robert Louis Stevenson's best-known and best-loved works.
A classic coming of age adventure, featuring buried treasure, treacherous pirates, and the eponymous Long John Silver, Treasure Island tells the enthralling story of Jim Hawkins, a young cabin boy, who sets sail on an 18th century voyage in search of a pirate's buried gold.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So much fun to listen to!
- By Julia on 10-11-09
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Flint & Silver
- A Prequel to Treasure Island
- By: John Drake
- Narrated by: Tim Gregory
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 114
A swashbuckling triumph of storytelling, Flint and Silver provides a thrilling ride back to the rich and wondrous world of Long John Silver and his fiendish nemesis Joseph Flint in this prequel to the beloved classic Treasure Island.
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4 out of 5 stars
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where are the other two books in the series??
- By Scott Pruitt on 05-31-18
By: John Drake
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His Majesty's Dragon
- Temeraire, Book 1
- By: Naomi Novik
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,737
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,693
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,693
When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo - an unhatched dragon egg - fate sweeps Captain Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent AU period fantasy
- By Melanie on 07-08-10
By: Naomi Novik
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The House of the Four Winds
- One Dozen Daughters, Book 1
- By: Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 356
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 317
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Story4 out of 5 stars 318
The rulers of tiny, impoverished Swansgaard have twelve daughters and one son. While the prince’s future is assured, his twelve sisters must find their own fortunes. Disguising herself as Clarence, Princess Clarice intends to sail to the New World. When the crew rebels, Clarice/Clarence, an expert with rapier and dagger, sides with the handsome navigator, Dominick, and kills the cruel captain. Dominick leads the now - outlawed crew in search of treasure in the secret pirate haven known as The House of the Four Winds.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Solid story, but this one is popcorn
- By Phillip on 09-19-14
By: Mercedes Lackey, and others
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Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
- By: Howard Pyle, Merle Johnson
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 161
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Story4 out of 5 stars 109
Merle Johnson has here gathered together in one volume all of the nineteenth-century author-artist's classic pirate stories that had been scattered through many magazines and books. Well researched and with richly drawn characters, Pyle's work will appeal to students of history and adventure lovers alike.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and wonderfully read
- By Fletch on 09-08-06
By: Howard Pyle, and others
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- John Donlan
- 08-04-22
ACTION
A bit wordy. Would like more action. I do like the the adherence to history.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-05-20
Carries on the tradition
Really liked this sequel and look forward to the next. Love the historical research but also the geography lesson one receives as the series continues
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- Michael
- 08-22-15
More Peril but Sailing Through
This is a very entertaining series, and Tenacious continues the story. It is amazing how Kydd continues to advance, in spite of the dislike from commanders on his own side. He seems constantly in peril from both the enemy and the British.
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- ANDRZEJ ANDY CIUPEK
- 08-07-23
Great
Masterfully written series and great performance by the reader.
Great historical fiction based on untwine fictional characters in to historical encounters.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Wendy K D
- 08-06-15
Wonderful
Fantastic narration. Rodska's performance as always is exceptional! Stockwin delivers an epic. The great battle of the Nile, Nelson, and Napoleon.
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- Ken
- 02-10-20
Great book, with a small problem.
Just like with "Quarterdeck", a problem with the immersion reading starts with the 7th chapter.
There is no problem with the Audible version, but if you like to read and listen at the same time, there is a problem.
The audio reports a download problem while the moving words keep going. By the time the audio starts again, the moving words are a whole page ahead!
I think it was originally recorded on tape and then transferred to digital without realizing that there was a problem.
You can work around this, but it is a little annoying to have to turn the page by hand. And read the smaller type while listening.
I first read this book 15 years ago and it is just as good as the first time!
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