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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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4.13 avg rating — 166,438 ratings
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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4.12 avg rating — 120,349 ratings
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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4.17 avg rating — 232,081 ratings
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Thunderstruck
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3.78 avg rating — 58,388 ratings
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Sea Fights and Shipwrecks
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3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
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4.05 avg rating — 7,084 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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4.17 avg rating — 122,169 ratings
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Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
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4.15 avg rating — 21,347 ratings
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
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3.95 avg rating — 5,466 ratings
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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4.19 avg rating — 19,732 ratings
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
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4.03 avg rating — 14,822 ratings
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Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy
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4.38 avg rating — 7,899 ratings
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
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4.30 avg rating — 26,900 ratings
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Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
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3.88 avg rating — 3,964 ratings
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Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945
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4.15 avg rating — 2,959 ratings
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Iron Dawn: The Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle that Changed History
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4.19 avg rating — 429 ratings
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Rounding the Horn: Being The Story Of Williwaws And Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries And Naked Natives -- a Deck's-eye View Of Cape Horn
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4.13 avg rating — 355 ratings
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Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived
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3.98 avg rating — 2,732 ratings
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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
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4.31 avg rating — 5,821 ratings
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The Ghost Ships of Archangel: The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis
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4.02 avg rating — 706 ratings
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Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship
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3.55 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria: The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship
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3.95 avg rating — 562 ratings
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Voyage of the Damned: A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror
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4.08 avg rating — 1,189 ratings
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The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
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4.07 avg rating — 1,698 ratings
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| 21 |
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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
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3.40 avg rating — 1,901 ratings
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The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
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4.16 avg rating — 5,989 ratings
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Shackles From the Deep: Tracing the Path of a Sunken Slave Ship, a Bitter Past, and a Rich Legacy
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3.67 avg rating — 230 ratings
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Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
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3.75 avg rating — 598 ratings
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The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex
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3.89 avg rating — 1,487 ratings
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In Deep Water: A True Story of Sharks, Survival, and Courage
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4.24 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea
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3.77 avg rating — 6,271 ratings
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The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare: A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina
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3.74 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Lusitania Story
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3.74 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Wreck of the Carl D: A True Story of Loss, Survival and Rescue at Sea
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4.15 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship `Amistad'
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3.47 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the Lusitania
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4.03 avg rating — 889 ratings
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Man on a Raft: Fifty Days Adrift at Sea
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4.48 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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4.11 avg rating — 1,296 ratings
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Slave Ship: The Story of the Henrietta Marie
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3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes, and Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires
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3.69 avg rating — 214 ratings
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The Last Run: A True Story of Rescue and Redemption on the Alaska Seas
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4.03 avg rating — 335 ratings
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The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: An African American's Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship's Past
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3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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A Night to Remember
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4.10 avg rating — 30,604 ratings
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Black May: The Epic Story of the Allies' Defeat of the German U-Boats in May 1943
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3.86 avg rating — 384 ratings
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Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea
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4.20 avg rating — 1,415 ratings
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The Slave Ship: A Human History
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4.12 avg rating — 2,255 ratings
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The Night Lives On: The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the ”Unsinkable” Ship — TITANIC!
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4.11 avg rating — 2,775 ratings
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Pursuit The Chase and Sinking of the Bismarck
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4.21 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Not Without Hope
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3.75 avg rating — 1,832 ratings
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The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails
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3.94 avg rating — 85 ratings
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| 49 |
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Titanic: A Night Remembered
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3.60 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea
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3.86 avg rating — 490 ratings
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On Seas of Glory: Heroic Men, Great Ships, and Epic Battles of the American Navy
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3.73 avg rating — 70 ratings
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How to Survive the Titanic: or, The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay
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3.48 avg rating — 860 ratings
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On the Edge of Survival: A Shipwreck, a Raging Storm, and the Harrowing Alaskan Rescue That Became a Legend
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4.03 avg rating — 830 ratings
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Black Ships: Illustrated Japanese History--The Americans Arrive
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3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop Who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters
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3.87 avg rating — 1,704 ratings
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Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do
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4.07 avg rating — 930 ratings
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A Hymn for Eternity: The Story of Wallace Hartley, Titanic Bandmaster
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3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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4.46 avg rating — 176,506 ratings
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The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue
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3.88 avg rating — 6,896 ratings
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Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship
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4.06 avg rating — 640 ratings
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The Man Who Sank Titanic: The Troubled Life of Quartermaster Robert Hichens
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3.58 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Shadow Divers
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4.38 avg rating — 37,968 ratings
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Burning Cold: The Cruise Ship Prinsendam And the Greatest Sea Rescue of All Time
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2.91 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Carpathia
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
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4.04 avg rating — 12,300 ratings
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All the Men in the Sea: The Untold Story of One of the Greatest Rescues in History
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3.53 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
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3.97 avg rating — 2,856 ratings
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Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
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4.23 avg rating — 5,291 ratings
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Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum
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4.24 avg rating — 861 ratings
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Surviving the Essex: The Afterlife of America's Most Storied Shipwreck
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3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Ship of Dreams
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4.03 avg rating — 1,951 ratings
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Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack
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4.34 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex: The Complete Illustrated Edition: The Extraordinary and Distressing Memoir That Inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
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4.04 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Shadow of the Titanic
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3.93 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
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3.79 avg rating — 4,521 ratings
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Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History
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4.25 avg rating — 1,310 ratings
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The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale
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4.03 avg rating — 520 ratings
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The Shipwreck Hunter
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4.04 avg rating — 602 ratings
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The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime
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3.82 avg rating — 1,170 ratings
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The Terrible Hours: The Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
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4.10 avg rating — 2,932 ratings
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The Wreck at Sharpnose Point
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3.30 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Other Side of the Night: The Carpathia, the Californian and the Night the Titanic Was Lost
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4.25 avg rating — 1,049 ratings
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Black Wave: A Family's Adventure at Sea and the Disaster That Saved Them
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3.54 avg rating — 954 ratings
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Marco Polo
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
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4.22 avg rating — 7,147 ratings
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The Ship and the Storm: Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome
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3.96 avg rating — 396 ratings
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Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas
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3.23 avg rating — 1,711 ratings
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Hell Ship
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4.14 avg rating — 736 ratings
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The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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4.50 avg rating — 15,363 ratings
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Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists
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3.66 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Left for Dead: Surviving the Deadliest Storm in Modern Sailing History
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4.18 avg rating — 888 ratings
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Whales and Nations: Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Maiden Voyages: Women and the Golden Age of Transatlantic Travel
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3.73 avg rating — 1,126 ratings
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Challenging the Pacific: The First Woman to Row the Kon-Tiki Route
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3.83 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Among the Mermaids: Facts, Myths, and Enchantments from the Sirens of the Sea
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3.45 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Valerie Taylor: An Adventurous Life: The remarkable story of the trailblazing ocean conservationist, photographer and shark expert
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4.37 avg rating — 174 ratings
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Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
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3.86 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World
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3.78 avg rating — 348 ratings
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