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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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4.17 avg rating — 120,635 ratings
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
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4.03 avg rating — 14,721 ratings
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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4.12 avg rating — 119,731 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 1,006,205 ratings
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Kon-Tiki
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4.16 avg rating — 25,389 ratings
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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4.17 avg rating — 221,475 ratings
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Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
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4.15 avg rating — 21,101 ratings
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Catamaran Crossing: A Sailing Adventure from La Coruña to Antigua
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4.29 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Boat Who Wouldn't Float
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4.11 avg rating — 2,476 ratings
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The Long Way
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4.26 avg rating — 3,350 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 — 19,405 ratings
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Hard Aground . . . Again: Inspiration for the Navigationally Challenged and Spiritually Stuck
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4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Hard Aground with Eddie Jones: An Incomplete Idiot's Guide to Doing Stupid Stuff With Boats
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3.99 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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4.13 avg rating — 164,230 ratings
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Sailing Alone around the World
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4.16 avg rating — 11,330 ratings
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Tranquility: A Memoir of an American Sailor
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4.39 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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4.46 avg rating — 171,700 ratings
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Gipsy Moth Circles the World
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4.10 avg rating — 1,363 ratings
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Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race
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4.18 avg rating — 709 ratings
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Life on the Mississippi
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3.87 avg rating — 15,634 ratings
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Sailing a Serious Ocean
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4.37 avg rating — 1,027 ratings
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The Ra Expeditions
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4.04 avg rating — 1,230 ratings
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Quest and Crew
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4.15 avg rating — 457 ratings
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The Brendan Voyage: A Leather Boat Tracks the Discovery of America by the Irish Sailor Saints
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4.25 avg rating — 1,962 ratings
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The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
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4.07 avg rating — 1,653 ratings
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Grey Seas Under: The Perilous Rescue Mission Of A N.A. Salvage Tug
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4.26 avg rating — 545 ratings
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The Log from the Sea of Cortez
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3.84 avg rating — 6,735 ratings
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Overboard!: A True Blue-water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival
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4.28 avg rating — 1,106 ratings
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Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
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3.83 avg rating — 81,276 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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3.89 avg rating — 46,583 ratings
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A Voyage for Madmen
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4.34 avg rating — 6,565 ratings
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Das Boot: The Boat
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4.26 avg rating — 6,099 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 — 26,403 ratings
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
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4.05 avg rating — 10,594 ratings
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The Brendan Voyage
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4.25 avg rating — 1,962 ratings
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Atlantic High: A Celebration
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3.96 avg rating — 222 ratings
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30,000 Leagues Undersea: True Tales of a Submariner and Deep Submergence Pilot
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4.32 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Marco Polo
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Slow Boat to the Bahamas
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3.21 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Missives from Maravida: A Family's Caribbean Sailboat Adventure
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4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Staying Alive! 117 Days Adrift
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4.07 avg rating — 311 ratings
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Living Really Living
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4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Mistress and Commander: High Jinks, High Seas and Highlanders
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3.77 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
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4.46 avg rating — 3,996 ratings
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The Raft: The Courageous Struggle of Three Naval Airmen Against the Sea
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4.09 avg rating — 707 ratings
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Mischief among the Penguins
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3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings
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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
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3.41 avg rating — 1,807 ratings
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And the Sea Will Tell
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3.96 avg rating — 8,661 ratings
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X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy
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3.78 avg rating — 51 ratings
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A Star To Steer Her By
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Hell Ship
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4.14 avg rating — 724 ratings
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Luxton's Pacific Crossing
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Excavating Ships of War (International Maritime Archaeology Series)
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Cruise of the Snark
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3.68 avg rating — 1,130 ratings
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Black Wave: A Family's Adventure at Sea and the Disaster That Saved Them
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3.53 avg rating — 943 ratings
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
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4.36 avg rating — 11,831 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 — 1,180 ratings
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Under Full Sail
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4.19 avg rating — 116 ratings
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The Prize of All the Oceans: Commodore Anson's Daring Voyage and Triumphant Capture of the Spanish Treasure Galleon
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3.98 avg rating — 153 ratings
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The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
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4.23 avg rating — 125 ratings
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The Tigris Expedition: In Search of Our Beginnings
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3.96 avg rating — 334 ratings
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The Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History
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3.73 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Rough Water: Stories of Survival from the Sea
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3.47 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942
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4.61 avg rating — 10,457 ratings
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Airborne: A Sentimental Journey
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4.02 avg rating — 282 ratings
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The Sindbad Voyage
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4.12 avg rating — 349 ratings
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A Night to Remember
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4.10 avg rating — 29,929 ratings
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The Wreck of the Batavia & Prosper
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3.72 avg rating — 486 ratings
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The Archaeology of Maritime Landscapes (When the Land Meets the Sea, 2)
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Storm: Stories of Survival from Land and Sea
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3.68 avg rating — 183 ratings
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The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)
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4.62 avg rating — 7,305 ratings
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Into the Wind
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina
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4.47 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness
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3.81 avg rating — 1,031 ratings
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Racing Through Paradise: A Pacific Passage
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4.07 avg rating — 183 ratings
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The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World
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3.88 avg rating — 711 ratings
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The Art of Coarse Sailing
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4.02 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex
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3.89 avg rating — 1,480 ratings
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An Atlas of Maritime Florida
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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A New and Accurate Account of the Provinces of South-Carolina and Georgia: With Many Curious and Useful Observations on the Trade, Navigation, and ... Maritime Neighbors in Ancient and Modern...
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Maritime prints by the Dutch Masters
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Longest Campaign: Britain's Maritime Struggle in the Atlantic and Northwest Europe, 1939–1945
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters
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4.17 avg rating — 1,238 ratings
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Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
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4.23 avg rating — 6,916 ratings
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Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing
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4.19 avg rating — 1,012 ratings
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750
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4.05 avg rating — 354 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 — 7,035 ratings
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Mayflower
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3.56 avg rating — 470 ratings
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The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific
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4.54 avg rating — 5,846 ratings
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John Barry: An American Hero in the Age of Sail
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4.26 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Warship under Sail: The USS Decatur in the Pacific West (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography)
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Demon of the Waters: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe
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3.65 avg rating — 244 ratings
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Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War
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4.18 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Normandy: the Sailors' Story: A Naval History of D-Day and the Battle for France
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4.25 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Mutiny on the Bounty Trilogy
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4.42 avg rating — 1,559 ratings
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Sailing Alone: A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea
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3.98 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Quest on the Thorny Path (Quest and Crew #2)
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4.27 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation
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3.61 avg rating — 646 ratings
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A Sailor's Story (Dover Graphic Novels)
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4.15 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
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4.33 avg rating — 2,543 ratings
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