Ocean Exploration
1. 
Early Man and the Ocean: A Search for the Beginnings of Navigation & Seaborne Civilizations
by:
Thor Heyerdahl
4.11 avg rating — 90 ratings 2. 
Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer 3.77 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Cook : The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook
by:
Nicholas Thomas
3.89 avg rating — 180 ratings 4. 
Exploring the Deep: Man, Machine and Mammals in the Quest to Conquer Earth's Last Frontier
by:
Michael Welham
2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 5. 
Adventures in Ocean Exploration : From the Discovery of the Titanic to the Search for Noah's Flood really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Conquest of the Ocean: An Illustrated History of Seafaring
by:
Brian Lavery
3.83 avg rating — 167 ratings 
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
by:
Simon Winchester
3.76 avg rating — 5,186 ratings 10. 
Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle
by:
Claire A. Nivola
4.08 avg rating — 1,067 ratings 
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Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans
by:
Brian M. Fagan
3.41 avg rating — 276 ratings 13. 
The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World's Most Elusive Sea Creature
by:
Richard Ellis
3.70 avg rating — 620 ratings 14. 
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 4.04 avg rating — 6,742 ratings
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The Silent Landscape: The Scientific Voyage of HMS Challenger
by:
Richard Corfield
3.78 avg rating — 58 ratings 15. 
Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves
by:
James Nestor
4.45 avg rating — 7,906 ratings 
18. 
Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
by:
Hali Felt
3.78 avg rating — 346 ratings 18. 
Lost Liners: From the Titanic to the Andrea Doria The Ocean Floor Reveals Its Greatest Ships 4.36 avg rating — 268 ratings
21. 
Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North
by:
Fridtjof Nansen
4.11 avg rating — 1,418 ratings 
23. 
Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
by:
Susan Casey
4.04 avg rating — 3,303 ratings 
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Exploring the Deep Frontier: The Adventure of Man in the Sea
by:
Sylvia A. Earle
4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings 25. 
Wild Ocean: Sharks, Whales, Rays, and Other Endangered Sea Creatures
by:
Matt Dembicki
3.88 avg rating — 66 ratings 
27. 
Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas
by:
Carl Safina
4.31 avg rating — 941 ratings 29. 
Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them
by:
Ted Danson
4.22 avg rating — 302 ratings 30. 
The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One
by:
Sylvia A. Earle
4.27 avg rating — 1,285 ratings 31. 
The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
by:
Peter Brannen
4.29 avg rating — 5,874 ratings 32. 
Full Fathom Five: Ocean Warming and a Father's Legacy
by:
Gordon Chaplin
3.48 avg rating — 21 ratings 33. 
Junk Raft: An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution
by:
Marcus Eriksen
3.98 avg rating — 192 ratings 33. 
The Ice Diaries: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Daring Mission 4.11 avg rating — 742 ratings
35. 
The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture
by:
Stefano B. Longo
4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings 
37. 
Europe Between the Oceans: Themes and Variations, 9000 BC - AD 1000
by:
Barry Cunliffe
4.12 avg rating — 632 ratings 
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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
by:
Susan Casey
4.04 avg rating — 11,332 ratings 44. 
On the Ocean: The Mediterranean and the Atlantic from prehistory to AD 1500
by:
Barry Cunliffe
4.28 avg rating — 58 ratings 45. 
Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean 4.01 avg rating — 5,527 ratings
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Sextant: The Elegant Instrument That Guided the Great Explorers, and a Young Man's First Journey Across the Atlantic
by:
David Barrie
3.96 avg rating — 776 ratings 47. 
Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator
by:
Jason M. Colby
4.17 avg rating — 315 ratings 47. 
Voyages and Discoveries: Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
by:
Richard Hakluyt
3.56 avg rating — 160 ratings 
51. 
The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World 4.01 avg rating — 471 ratings
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Follow the Moon Home: A Tale of One Idea, Twenty Kids, and a Hundred Sea Turtles 4.23 avg rating — 947 ratings
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