Age of Sail Nonfiction

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The Lighthouse Stevensons
The Lighthouse Stevensons 3.97 avg rating — 723 ratings
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The Shogun's Reluctant Ambassadors: Japanese Sea Drifters in the North Pacific
The Shogun's Reluctant Ambassadors: Japanese Sea Drifters in the North Pacific 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler
The Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler 3.12 avg rating — 16 ratings
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1812: The Navy's War
1812: The Navy's War 3.97 avg rating — 774 ratings
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Sailors' Songs and Shanties
Sailors' Songs and Shanties 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate
Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate 3.70 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock
Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock 3.55 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Into the Blue: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Into the Blue: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before 4.04 avg rating — 10,353 ratings
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Memoirs Of A Smuggler: Compiled From His Diary And Journal, Containing The Principal Events In The Life Of John Rattenbury (1837)
Memoirs Of A Smuggler: Compiled From His Diary And Journal, Containing The Principal Events In The Life Of John Rattenbury (1837) 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories 3.76 avg rating — 5,186 ratings
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Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages: The Lives of the Seafaring Middle Class (Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800)
Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages: The Lives of the Seafaring Middle Class (Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Sentinel of the Seas:
Sentinel of the Seas: 3.36 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Adventures of Christopher Hawkins
The Adventures of Christopher Hawkins 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Nelson's Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization, 1793-1815
Nelson's Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization, 1793-1815 4.50 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Sea Shanties: The Lyrics and History of Sailor Songs
Sea Shanties: The Lyrics and History of Sailor Songs 3.96 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Art of Rigging
The Art of Rigging 3.98 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Glorious First of June (Hearts of Oak Trilogy, #3)
The Glorious First of June (Hearts of Oak Trilogy, #3) 4.25 avg rating — 106 ratings
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The Adventures of Ebenezer Fox in the Revolutionary War
The Adventures of Ebenezer Fox in the Revolutionary War 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Narrative Of William Spavens
Narrative Of William Spavens 3.39 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Vanguard of Empire: Ships of Exploration in the Age of Columbus
Vanguard of Empire: Ships of Exploration in the Age of Columbus it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks
Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Sir Walter Ralegh
Sir Walter Ralegh 3.76 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Our Sailors, Gallant Deeds of the British Navy During Queen Victoria's Reign
Our Sailors, Gallant Deeds of the British Navy During Queen Victoria's Reign 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Life in Nelson's Navy
Life in Nelson's Navy 4.09 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Ancient Shipwrecks
Ancient Shipwrecks 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay
The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay 3.58 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Jack Tar's Story: The Autobiographies and Memoirs of Sailors in Antebellum America
Jack Tar's Story: The Autobiographies and Memoirs of Sailors in Antebellum America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections: Man-Of-War
Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections: Man-Of-War 4.57 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Exploring for Shipwrecks
Exploring for Shipwrecks it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The life and surprizing adventures of James Wyatt
The life and surprizing adventures of James Wyatt 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways & Sailors' Wives
Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways & Sailors' Wives 3.62 avg rating — 501 ratings
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The Wordy Shipmates
The Wordy Shipmates 3.68 avg rating — 23,890 ratings
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Watermen (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)
Watermen (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Caliban's Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors
Caliban's Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors 3.86 avg rating — 465 ratings
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Ramblin' Jack: The journal of Captain John Cremer, 1700-1774
Ramblin' Jack: The journal of Captain John Cremer, 1700-1774 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920
Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920 3.86 avg rating — 56 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
Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship 4.06 avg rating — 591 ratings
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Shipwrecks on the Chesapeake : Maritime Disasters on Chesapeake Bay and Its Tributaries, 1608 - 1978
Shipwrecks on the Chesapeake : Maritime Disasters on Chesapeake Bay and Its Tributaries, 1608 - 1978 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Heart of Oak: A Sailor's Life in Nelson's Navy
Heart of Oak: A Sailor's Life in Nelson's Navy 3.88 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)
Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) 4.52 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Cornish Seafarers - The Smuggling, Wrecking and Fishing Life of Cornwall
Cornish Seafarers - The Smuggling, Wrecking and Fishing Life of Cornwall 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Nelson Touch: The Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson
The Nelson Touch: The Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson 3.64 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Sea Fights and Shipwrecks
Sea Fights and Shipwrecks 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Pirates on the Chesapeake: Being a True History of Pirates, Picaroons, and Raiders on Chesapeake Bay, 1610-1807
Pirates on the Chesapeake: Being a True History of Pirates, Picaroons, and Raiders on Chesapeake Bay, 1610-1807 3.76 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Frigates of the Napoleonic Wars
Frigates of the Napoleonic Wars 4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The History of Pirates
The History of Pirates 3.91 avg rating — 308 ratings
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Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century: The Art of Sailing Warfare
Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century: The Art of Sailing Warfare 4.20 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Tidewater Triumph: The Development and Worldwide Success of the Chesapeake Bay Pilot Schooner
Tidewater Triumph: The Development and Worldwide Success of the Chesapeake Bay Pilot Schooner 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Clipper Ships
The Clipper Ships 4.02 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution
The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution 4.23 avg rating — 176 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
Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex: The Complete Illustrated Edition: The Extraordinary and Distressing Memoir That Inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick 4.02 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Most Secret and Confidential: Intelligence in the Age of Nelson
Most Secret and Confidential: Intelligence in the Age of Nelson 3.97 avg rating — 29 ratings
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A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks
A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks 3.70 avg rating — 46 ratings
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A History of the Vikings
A History of the Vikings 3.85 avg rating — 1,088 ratings
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Sea Battles in Close-Up: The Age of Nelson
Sea Battles in Close-Up: The Age of Nelson 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 289 ratings
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The Shipwrecked Men
The Shipwrecked Men 3.35 avg rating — 189 ratings
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What Life Was Like When Longships Sailed: Vikings, AD 800-1100
What Life Was Like When Longships Sailed: Vikings, AD 800-1100 3.92 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea
Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea 3.88 avg rating — 364 ratings
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Surviving the Essex: The Afterlife of America's Most Storied Shipwreck
Surviving the Essex: The Afterlife of America's Most Storied Shipwreck 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Welcome on Board! The Sea Stallion from Glendalough]: A Viking Longship Recreated
Welcome on Board! The Sea Stallion from Glendalough]: A Viking Longship Recreated
by: Jan Bill
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Henry Winstanley and the Eddystone Lighthouse
Henry Winstanley and the Eddystone Lighthouse 3.68 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Shipwrecked Sailor: An Egyptian Tale with Hieroglyphs
The Shipwrecked Sailor: An Egyptian Tale with Hieroglyphs 3.74 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Five Viking Ships from Roskilde Fjord
Five Viking Ships from Roskilde Fjord 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Shining Sea: David Porter and the Epic Voyage of the U.S.S. Essex during the War of 1812
The Shining Sea: David Porter and the Epic Voyage of the U.S.S. Essex during the War of 1812 3.78 avg rating — 92 ratings
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The Flaming Ship of Ocracoke and Other Tales of the Outer Banks
The Flaming Ship of Ocracoke and Other Tales of the Outer Banks 4.01 avg rating — 111 ratings
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The Sea Stallion from Glendalough (Havhingsten fra Glendalough): Roskilde - Dublin 2007, Pictures of a Trial Voyage
The Sea Stallion from Glendalough (Havhingsten fra Glendalough): Roskilde - Dublin 2007, Pictures of a Trial Voyage liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found
The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found 3.86 avg rating — 684 ratings
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Shanghaied In San Francisco
Shanghaied In San Francisco 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Into the Storm: Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival
Into the Storm: Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival 4.19 avg rating — 1,098 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
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 3.56 avg rating — 1,357 ratings
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The Devil's Mariner: A Life of William Dampier, Pirate and Explorer, 1651-1715
The Devil's Mariner: A Life of William Dampier, Pirate and Explorer, 1651-1715 3.88 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Castaway: The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858
Castaway: The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858 4.04 avg rating — 231 ratings
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On Seas of Glory: Heroic Men, Great Ships, and Epic Battles of the American Navy
On Seas of Glory: Heroic Men, Great Ships, and Epic Battles of the American Navy 3.71 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Endeavour: The story of Captain Cook's first great epic voyage
Endeavour: The story of Captain Cook's first great epic voyage 4.07 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World
Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World 4.03 avg rating — 514 ratings
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Captain Cook’s Epic Voyage
Captain Cook’s Epic Voyage 4.21 avg rating — 141 ratings
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The Age of Fighting Sail: The Story of the Naval War of 1812
The Age of Fighting Sail: The Story of the Naval War of 1812 3.96 avg rating — 588 ratings
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Flinders: The Man who Mapped Australia
Flinders: The Man who Mapped Australia 4.23 avg rating — 445 ratings
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Dampier, the Dutch and the Great South Land
Dampier, the Dutch and the Great South Land 4.10 avg rating — 199 ratings
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John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy
John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy 4.01 avg rating — 1,627 ratings
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The First Fleet
The First Fleet 4.11 avg rating — 340 ratings
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Bligh: Master Mariner
Bligh: Master Mariner 4.39 avg rating — 357 ratings
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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter 3.75 avg rating — 3,341 ratings
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Captain James Cook
Captain James Cook 4.36 avg rating — 386 ratings
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Swamp Sailors in the Second Seminole War (Florida Sand Dollar Books)
Swamp Sailors in the Second Seminole War (Florida Sand Dollar Books) 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life
The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
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1788: The Brutal Truth of the First Fleet
1788: The Brutal Truth of the First Fleet 3.92 avg rating — 815 ratings
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The Naval Institute Historical Atlas of the U.S. Navy
The Naval Institute Historical Atlas of the U.S. Navy 4.17 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales 4.08 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Batavia
Batavia 4.26 avg rating — 3,672 ratings
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The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece—and Western Civilization
The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece—and Western Civilization 4.09 avg rating — 1,116 ratings
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Mutiny on the Bounty: A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds
Mutiny on the Bounty: A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds 4.45 avg rating — 1,819 ratings
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To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World 4.21 avg rating — 1,575 ratings
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French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1862
French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1862 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The War of 1812 and the Rise of the U.S. Navy
The War of 1812 and the Rise of the U.S. Navy 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Great Age of Sail (A Studio book)
The Great Age of Sail (A Studio book) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy
Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy 4.18 avg rating — 1,805 ratings
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The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found
The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found 3.86 avg rating — 684 ratings
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Adventures at Sea in the Great Age of Sail: Five Firsthand Narratives
Adventures at Sea in the Great Age of Sail: Five Firsthand Narratives liked it 3.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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