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Maritime Lists by Experts All Time Best Trending New By Book DNA List by Experts

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  • Glynis Ridley The best books about famous sea voyages we think we know, but don’t Book cover of Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe Book cover of Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War Book cover of The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty Book cover of The Voyage of the Beagle Book cover of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
  • Isabel Tutaine Isabel Tutaine's favorite books about how pirates lived and what they valued Book cover of Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates Book cover of Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives Book cover of Pirates Book cover of Smuggling Book cover of The Ancient Mariners
  • Denver Brunsman The best books to be grateful for not being a common seaman in the Age of Sail Book cover of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder Book cover of The Bloody Flag: Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution Book cover of The Press Gang: Naval Impressment and its opponents in Georgian Britain Book cover of Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail Book cover of Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail
  • Rebecca Simon The best books about the lives of pirates Book cover of Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740 Book cover of Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age Book cover of Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates Book cover of Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail Book cover of Pirates!
  • Katie Daysh The best books to get lost at sea with Book cover of Moby-Dick Book cover of The Far Side of the World Book cover of Mutiny on the Spanish Main: HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy's Revenge Book cover of Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time Book cover of Jack Tar
  • Rick Jervis The best books to take readers on a journey to unknown lands Book cover of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder Book cover of Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West Book cover of Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History Book cover of Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause Book cover of The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
  • Margarette Lincoln The best books on maritime London Book cover of London's Docklands: A History of the Lost Quarter Book cover of Dockland Life: A Pictorial History of London’s Docks 1860–2000 Book cover of London and the Georgian Navy Book cover of The History of the Port of London: A Vast Emporium of All Nations Book cover of London's Sailortown, 1600-1800
  • Thomas Blake Earle The best books about why the history of the ocean matters Book cover of The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail Book cover of The Sea Around Us Book cover of Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans Book cover of All the Boats on the Ocean: How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing Book cover of The Unnatural History of the Sea
  • Wendy K. Perriman The best books on the real Pirates of the Caribbean Book cover of A General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates Book cover of Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates Book cover of Bold in Her Breeches: Woman Pirates Across the Ages Book cover of Blackbeard the Pirate Book cover of The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730
  • Dawn M. Hadley and Julian D. Richards The best books about the Vikings (from two archaeologists) Book cover of Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings Book cover of The Viking Diaspora Book cover of Viking Britain Book cover of River Kings Book cover of Norse Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Heroes
  • Len Travers The best books to cure you of DPS (Disney Pirate Syndrome) Book cover of The Pirate Wars Book cover of Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age Book cover of A General History of the Pyrates Book cover of Bandits at Sea: A Pirates Reader Book cover of Treasure Island
  • Wim Klooster The best books about the Age of Revolutions Book cover of The Great Demarcation: The French Revolution and the Invention of Modern Property Book cover of Resisting Independence Book cover of Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution: Reform, Revolution, and Royalism in the Northern Andes, 1780–1825 Book cover of The Bloody Flag: Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution Book cover of Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire
  • John Barylick The best books on disaster & survival that will have your heart pounding Book cover of Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster Book cover of In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex Book cover of Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro Book cover of 102 Minutes: The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers Book cover of Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
  • Dawn J. Wright The best, most amazing books about exploring, understanding, AND protecting the ocean Book cover of The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans Book cover of The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean Book cover of Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor Book cover of A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer Book cover of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
  • Nancy Marie Brown The best books on Vikings, their humor, and their world Book cover of Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings Book cover of The Age of the Vikings Book cover of Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings Book cover of Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World Book cover of Viking Age Iceland
  • Tom Shippey The best books on Vikings through archaeology and research Book cover of The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia Book cover of Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings Book cover of Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas Book cover of Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland: The Dynasty of Ivarr to A.D. 1014 Book cover of The Vikings: Wolves of War
  • Peter Solomon The best stories about modern evolution: from humanoids to super species to sentient artificial intelligence Book cover of The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI Book cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI Book cover of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Book cover of The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race Book cover of The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
  • Cian T. McMahon The best books on maritime social history Book cover of Two Years Before The Mast Book cover of The Slave Ship: A Human History Book cover of Harlots, Hussies, & Poor Unfortunate Women: Crime, Transportation & the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783 Book cover of A Path in the Mighty Waters: Shipboard Life and Atlantic Crossings to the New World Book cover of Star of the Sea
  • Michael Schuman The best Asian history books for a Sunday afternoon Book cover of The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 Book cover of The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 Book cover of The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia Book cover of Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or, the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History Book cover of Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
  • Julian Stockwin The best books to understand the Age of Sail Book cover of Nelson's Navy: The Ships, Men and Organisation, 1793 - 1815 Book cover of Seamanship in the Age of Sail: An Account of the Shiphandling of the Sailing Man-of-War 1600-1860 Book cover of Jack Tar Book cover of Broadsides: Caricature and the Navy 1756 - 1815 Book cover of Nelson's Navy in 100 Objects
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