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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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The Wager

By David Grann ,

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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
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The Wide Wide Sea

By Hampton Sides ,

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Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
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Children of Ash and Elm

By Neil Price ,

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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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In the Heart of the Sea

By Nathaniel Philbrick ,

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Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
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Villains of All Nations

By Marcus Rediker ,

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Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
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Conquerors

By Roger Crowley ,

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Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
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Under the Black Flag

By David Cordingly ,

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River Kings
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River Kings

By Cat Jarman ,

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Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
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Black Flags, Blue Waters

By Eric Jay Dolin ,

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Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
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Erebus

By Michael Palin ,

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Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
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Into the Raging Sea

By Rachel Slade ,

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Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire
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Waves Across the South

By Sujit Sivasundaram ,

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Jack Tar
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Jack Tar

By Roy Adkins ,

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Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives
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Seafaring Women

By David Cordingly ,

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The Bloody Flag: Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution
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The Bloody Flag

By Niklas Frykman ,

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Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
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Batavia's Graveyard

By Mike Dash ,

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Two Years Before The Mast
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Two Years Before The Mast

By Richard Henry Dana ,

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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
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The Bounty

By Caroline Alexander ,

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The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail
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The Mortal Sea

By W. Jeffrey Bolster ,

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Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
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Enemy of All Mankind

By Steven Johnson ,

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A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer
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A Pirate of Exquisite Mind

By Diana Preston , Michael Preston ,

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The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
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The Blue Machine

By Helen Czerski ,

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London and the Georgian Navy
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London and the Georgian Navy

By Philip MacDougall ,

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The History of the Port of London: A Vast Emporium of All Nations
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The History of the Port of London

By Peter Stone ,

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The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
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The Outlaw Ocean

By Ian Urbina ,

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Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580
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Empires of the Sea

By Roger Crowley ,

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The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
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The Pirates Laffite

By William C. Davis ,

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Lost Islands: The Story of Islands That Have Vanished from Nautical Charts
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Lost Islands

By Henry Stommel ,

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With Sails Whitening Every Sea: Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire
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With Sails Whitening Every Sea

By Brian Rouleau ,

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Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740
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Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740

By Mark G. Hanna ,

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Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans
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Vast Expanses

By Helen M. Rozwadowski ,

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Neptune's Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea
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Neptune's Laboratory

By Antony Adler ,

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Blackbeard the Pirate
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Blackbeard the Pirate

By Robert E. Lee ,

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The Sea Was in Their Blood: The Disappearance of the Miss Ally's Five-Man Crew
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The Sea Was in Their Blood

By Quentin Casey ,

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Transatlantic Liners 1950-1970
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Transatlantic Liners 1950-1970

By William H. Miller ,

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Michigan's Haunted Lighthouses
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Michigan's Haunted Lighthouses

By Dianna Higgs Stampfler ,

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River, Coast and Creek: An Exploration of Maritime Essex
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River, Coast and Creek

By Judith Ellis ,

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The Ballycotton Job: An incredible true story of IRA Pirates
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The Ballycotton Job

By Tom Mahon ,

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Mutiny on the Spanish Main: HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy's Revenge
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Mutiny on the Spanish Main

By Angus Konstam ,

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Mutiny on the Bounty: A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds
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Mutiny on the Bounty

By Peter FitzSimons ,

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Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II
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Victory at Sea

By Paul Kennedy , Ian Marshall (illustrator) ,

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A Book of Voyages
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A Book of Voyages

By Patrick O'Brian (editor) ,

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Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942
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Operation Pedestal

By Max Hastings ,

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The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era
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The Ship of Dreams

By Gareth Russell ,

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400 Years in 365 Days: A Day by Day Calendar of Nova Scotia History
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400 Years in 365 Days

By Leo Deveau ,

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Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain
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Woman, Captain, Rebel

By Margaret Willson ,

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Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
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Rebels at Sea

By Eric Jay Dolin ,

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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea

By Gary Kinder ,

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The Pirate Wars
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The Pirate Wars

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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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Over the Edge of the World

By Laurence Bergreen ,

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Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command: The Classic Works of Alfred Thayer Mahan Reconsidered
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Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command

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Blackbeard and Other Pirates of the Atlantic Coast
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Blackbeard and Other Pirates of the Atlantic Coast

By Nancy Roberts ,

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The Lighthouse Stevensons
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The Lighthouse Stevensons

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Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail
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Black Jacks

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Shipwrecks of the Roaring Forties: Researching some of Australia's earliest shipwrecks
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Shipwrecks of the Roaring Forties

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A Gentleman from Japan: The Untold Story of an Incredible Journey from Asia to Queen Elizabeth's Court
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A Gentleman from Japan

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The History of Navigation
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The History of Navigation

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American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865
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American Slavers

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Flinders
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Flinders

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City of Fortune
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City of Fortune

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Under the Bloody Flag
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Under the Bloody Flag

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Seashaken Houses
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Seashaken Houses

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