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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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4.12 avg rating — 119,223 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 — 119,306 ratings
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Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea
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3.76 avg rating — 6,110 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 — 176 ratings
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Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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4.11 avg rating — 1,263 ratings
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The Last Run: A True Story of Rescue and Redemption on the Alaska Seas
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4.02 avg rating — 333 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 — 1,332 ratings
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Not Without Hope
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3.75 avg rating — 1,761 ratings
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Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea
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3.86 avg rating — 480 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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4.01 avg rating — 784 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 — 902 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 — 6,736 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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All the Men in the Sea: The Untold Story of One of the Greatest Rescues in History
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3.57 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum
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4.24 avg rating — 847 ratings
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Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack
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4.33 avg rating — 413 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 — 1,284 ratings
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The Terrible Hours: The Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
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4.09 avg rating — 2,897 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 — 935 ratings
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The Ship and the Storm: Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome
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3.95 avg rating — 386 ratings
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Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
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4.15 avg rating — 20,906 ratings
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Left for Dead: Surviving the Deadliest Storm in Modern Sailing History
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4.17 avg rating — 873 ratings
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Challenging the Pacific: The First Woman to Row the Kon-Tiki Route
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3.80 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
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3.85 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Pacific Lady: The First Woman to Sail Solo across the World's Largest Ocean
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4.14 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge
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4.16 avg rating — 1,271 ratings
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Cruise Confidential: A Hit Below the Waterline: Where the Crew Lives, Eats, Wars, and Parties: One Crazy Year Working on Cruise Ships
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3.38 avg rating — 1,843 ratings
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Blue Water, Green Skipper
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3.84 avg rating — 530 ratings
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Seaworthy: Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting
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4.17 avg rating — 191 ratings
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True North: Journeys into the Great Northern Ocean
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat
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4.14 avg rating — 281 ratings
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The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, and a Woman's Search for the Meaning of Wife
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3.73 avg rating — 928 ratings
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Fair Wind and Plenty of It: A Modern-Day Tall-Ship Adventure
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3.60 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Two on a Big Ocean: The Story of the First Circumnavigation of the Pacific Basin in a Small Sailing Ship
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4.10 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
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4.03 avg rating — 14,634 ratings
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The Last Time Around Cape Horn: The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir
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4.36 avg rating — 83 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 — 19,118 ratings
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Cook : The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook
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3.89 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Sailing Alone around the World
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4.15 avg rating — 11,223 ratings
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Seized: A Sea Captain's Adventures Battling Scoundrels and Pirates While Recovering Stolen Ships in the World's Most Troubled Waters
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3.97 avg rating — 465 ratings
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A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea
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3.96 avg rating — 4,577 ratings
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The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines & the Secret Mission of 1805
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3.86 avg rating — 2,377 ratings
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Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah
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3.84 avg rating — 328 ratings
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Blackbeard: America's Most Notorious Pirate
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3.55 avg rating — 440 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 — 3,890 ratings
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The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
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3.46 avg rating — 428 ratings
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Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge
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3.56 avg rating — 1,401 ratings
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438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
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4.34 avg rating — 15,956 ratings
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The Cure for Anything Is Salt Water: How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness at Sea
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3.34 avg rating — 316 ratings
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The Gathering Wind: Hurricane Sandy, the Sailing Ship Bounty, and a Courageous Rescue at Sea
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4.09 avg rating — 274 ratings
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Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Antarctic Seas
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4.04 avg rating — 2,066 ratings
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PT 109: JFK's Night of Destiny
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4.04 avg rating — 858 ratings
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Coming Back Alive: The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas
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4.18 avg rating — 1,152 ratings
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Catching Thunder: The True Story of the World’s Longest Sea Chase
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3.91 avg rating — 246 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 — 421 ratings
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The Wreck of the Medusa: The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century
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3.65 avg rating — 570 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 — 25,940 ratings
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The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
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4.03 avg rating — 6,693 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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4.14 avg rating — 346 ratings
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Second Wind: A Sunfish Sailor, an Island, and the Voyage That Brought a Family Together
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3.85 avg rating — 531 ratings
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A Storm Too Soon: A True Story of Disaster, Survival and an Incredible Rescue
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4.27 avg rating — 831 ratings
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Flying Cloud: The True Story of America's Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided Her
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4.24 avg rating — 198 ratings
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
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3.95 avg rating — 5,379 ratings
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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
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4.30 avg rating — 5,716 ratings
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Alone: Orphaned on the Ocean
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3.71 avg rating — 3,741 ratings
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Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue
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4.20 avg rating — 2,096 ratings
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Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived
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3.98 avg rating — 2,666 ratings
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SOS Spirit of Survival: Costa Concordia Disaster
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3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Near Death on the High Seas: True Stories of Disaster and Survival (Vintage Departures)
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3.31 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
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3.52 avg rating — 1,574 ratings
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A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean
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3.99 avg rating — 2,445 ratings
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Around the World in a Dugout Canoe: The Untold Story of Captain John Voss and the Tilikum
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3.44 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Murder Aboard: The Herbert Fuller Tragedy and the Ordeal of Thomas Bram
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3.45 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: An Untold Story of the American Revolution
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3.75 avg rating — 318 ratings
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The Cruise of the Snark
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3.68 avg rating — 1,113 ratings
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Where the Magic Happens: How a Young Family Changed Their Lives and Sailed Around the World
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4.15 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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4.13 avg rating — 162,283 ratings
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Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy
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4.03 avg rating — 875 ratings
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Kon-Tiki
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4.16 avg rating — 25,163 ratings
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Stop Drifting, Start Rowing: One Woman's Search for Happiness and Meaning Alone on the Pacific
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3.73 avg rating — 221 ratings
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Voyage of the Beagle
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4.02 avg rating — 8,470 ratings
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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
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4.33 avg rating — 23,617 ratings
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Sailing into the Abyss: A True Story of Extreme Heroism on the High Seas
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3.44 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Battle of Midway
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4.39 avg rating — 3,677 ratings
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In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon
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3.71 avg rating — 771 ratings
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Junk Raft: An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution
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4.02 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Battling the Oceans in a Rowboat
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4.33 avg rating — 48 ratings
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A Tale of Two Subs: An Untold Story of World War II, Two Sister Ships, and Extraordinary Heroism
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3.90 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Eight Men and a Duck: An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island
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3.78 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic
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3.72 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Sealab: America's Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor
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3.66 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Kursk Down: The Shocking True Story of the Sinking of a Russian Nuclear Submarine
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4.07 avg rating — 215 ratings
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