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1.
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
by:
David Grann
4.17 avg rating β 185,013 ratings
2.
Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
by:
Matthew Campbell
4.23 avg rating β 6,034 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
by:
Erik Larson
4.13 avg rating β 157,321 ratings
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Thunderstruck
by:
Erik Larson
3.78 avg rating β 55,032 ratings
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Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean (Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century) (Volume 3)
by:
Jatin Dua
4.14 avg rating β 21 ratings
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The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
by:
Michael Scott Moore
3.97 avg rating β 2,476 ratings
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Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean
by:
Adrian Tinniswood
3.64 avg rating β 600 ratings
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Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail
by:
Marcus Rediker
3.83 avg rating β 154 ratings
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
by:
Caroline Alexander
3.95 avg rating β 5,242 ratings
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The Golden Age of Piracy: The Truth Behind Pirate Myths
by:
Benerson Little
3.38 avg rating β 358 ratings
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Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
by:
Marcus Rediker
3.98 avg rating β 1,142 ratings
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Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
by:
David Cordingly
3.68 avg rating β 10,103 ratings
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750
by:
Marcus Rediker
4.07 avg rating β 341 ratings
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The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630β1730
by:
Benerson Little
3.93 avg rating β 177 ratings
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The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
by:
Siddharth Kara
4.41 avg rating β 51 ratings
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The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
by:
Ian Urbina
4.37 avg rating β 6,249 ratings
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X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy
by:
Russell K. Skowronek
3.78 avg rating β 50 ratings
18.
Maritime Crime and Policing
by:
Yarin Eski
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Piracy and Maritime Crime: Historical and Modern Case Studies (Naval College Newport Papers, Volume 35)
by:
Bruce A. Elleman
3.50 avg rating β 4 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
by:
Richard Snow
3.63 avg rating β 532 ratings
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Seaborne Perils: Piracy, Maritime Crime, and Naval Terrorism in Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia
by:
Bruce A. Elleman
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery
by:
James Walvin
4.26 avg rating β 114 ratings
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Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes, and Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires
by:
Kristoffer Garin
3.70 avg rating β 205 ratings
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Oceanβs Tempest: A High Seas Battle with Modern Day Pirates
by:
Allen Swenson
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails
by:
Erik Calonius
3.98 avg rating β 82 ratings
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Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas
by:
John S. Burnett
3.62 avg rating β 298 ratings
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The Slave Ship: A Human History
by:
Marcus Rediker
4.12 avg rating β 2,152 ratings
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Pirates: Terror on the High Seas-From the Caribbean to the South China Sea
by:
David Cordingly
3.91 avg rating β 99 ratings
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The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade
by:
Jim Jordan
3.82 avg rating β 22 ratings
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Terror on the Seas: True Tales of Modern-Day Pirates
by:
Daniel Sekulich
3.28 avg rating β 46 ratings
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Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship
by:
Jonathan M. Bryant
3.52 avg rating β 94 ratings
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Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship `Amistad'
by:
Mary Cable
3.50 avg rating β 76 ratings
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The Last Fish Swimming: The Global Crime of Illegal Fishing
by:
Gohar Petrossian
4.60 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Mutiny On The Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate
by:
Jared Ross Hardesty
3.54 avg rating β 48 ratings
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Sea Shepherd: My Fight for Whales and Seals
by:
Paul Watson
4.35 avg rating β 75 ratings
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The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
by:
Ben Raines
4.33 avg rating β 2,845 ratings
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Enslaved: The Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
by:
Sean Kingsley
3.79 avg rating β 84 ratings
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Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution
by:
Angela C. Sutton
3.88 avg rating β 50 ratings
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The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
by:
Hannah Durkin
4.08 avg rating β 404 ratings
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The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts
by:
SiΓ’n Rees
3.62 avg rating β 1,385 ratings
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Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs
by:
David Philipps
4.48 avg rating β 1,725 ratings
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Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity
by:
David Kirby
4.27 avg rating β 3,611 ratings
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Pirate State: Inside Somalia's Terrorism at Sea
by:
Peter Eichstaedt
3.31 avg rating β 61 ratings
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A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout
by:
Carl Safina
3.73 avg rating β 185 ratings
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Vaquita: Science, Politics, and Crime in the Sea of Cortez
by:
Brooke Bessesen
4.28 avg rating β 165 ratings
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A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher
by:
Joel Achenbach
3.86 avg rating β 156 ratings
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Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish
by:
John Hargrove
4.20 avg rating β 7,340 ratings
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The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime
by:
William Langewiesche
3.82 avg rating β 1,108 ratings
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The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
by:
Colin Woodard
3.88 avg rating β 11,730 ratings
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Florida Pirates: From the Southern Gulf Coast to the Keys and Beyond
by:
James Kaserman
3.38 avg rating β 60 ratings
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The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific
by:
Brandon Presser
3.82 avg rating β 769 ratings
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Mutiny on the Bounty
by:
Classics Illustrated
3.82 avg rating β 22 ratings
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Paradise in Chains: The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia
by:
Diana Preston
4.01 avg rating β 162 ratings
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The Bounty Mutiny
by:
William Bligh
3.85 avg rating β 3,308 ratings
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The Curse of the Somers: The Secret History behind the U.S. Navy's Most Infamous Mutiny
by:
James P. Delgado
3.54 avg rating β 13 ratings
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American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution
by:
A. Roger Ekirch
3.58 avg rating β 112 ratings
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Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
by:
Mike Dash
4.16 avg rating β 4,252 ratings
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Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating β 4,317 ratings
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White Slaves: 15 Years a Barbary Slave: The shocking abduction of the citizens of Baltimore, Ireland by the famous Dutch corsair and pirate Murad Reis and the horror of the Barbary slave trade.
by:
Nicholas Kinsey
4.45 avg rating β 29 ratings
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Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic
by:
David Lester
3.62 avg rating β 104 ratings
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Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
by:
Keith Thomson
3.80 avg rating β 2,691 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
by:
Stephan Talty
3.87 avg rating β 3,811 ratings
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The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
by:
William C. Davis
3.46 avg rating β 412 ratings
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Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
by:
Eric Jay Dolin
3.76 avg rating β 4,423 ratings
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Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas
by:
Laura Sook Duncombe
3.22 avg rating β 1,624 ratings
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A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier
by:
Diana Preston
4.08 avg rating β 1,259 ratings
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The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found
by:
Martin W. Sandler
3.86 avg rating β 684 ratings
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Pirates, Ghosts, and Coastal Lore
by:
Charles Harry Whedbee
3.89 avg rating β 124 ratings
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Pirates
by:
Harry Knill
4.60 avg rating β 5 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
by:
Edward Kritzler
3.56 avg rating β 1,357 ratings
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Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World
by:
Jane Yolen
3.77 avg rating β 340 ratings
72.
The History of Pirates
by:
Angus Konstam
3.91 avg rating β 308 ratings
73.
Lives of the Pirates: Swashbucklers, Scoundrels
by:
Kathleen Krull
3.89 avg rating β 180 ratings
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The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd
by:
Richard Zacks
3.84 avg rating β 2,659 ratings
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The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines & the Secret Mission of 1805
by:
Richard Zacks
3.86 avg rating β 2,350 ratings
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Jean Laffite: The Pirate Who Saved America
by:
Susan Goldman Rubin
3.73 avg rating β 121 ratings
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Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
by:
Nick Tabor
4.14 avg rating β 405 ratings
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The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare: A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina
by:
Sean M. Kelley
3.79 avg rating β 47 ratings
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Shackles From the Deep: Tracing the Path of a Sunken Slave Ship, a Bitter Past, and a Rich Legacy
by:
Michael H. Cottman
3.67 avg rating β 220 ratings
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Slave Ship: The Story of the Henrietta Marie
by:
George Sullivan
3.25 avg rating β 4 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
by:
Michael H. Cottman
3.62 avg rating β 16 ratings
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The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade
by:
A.E. Rooks
4.04 avg rating β 212 ratings
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The Magnificent Boat: The Colonial Theft of a South Seas Cultural Treasure
by:
GΓΆtz Aly
4.09 avg rating β 67 ratings
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The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
by:
Tom Burgis
4.04 avg rating β 2,734 ratings
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At the End of the World: A True Story of Murder in the Arctic
by:
Lawrence Millman
2.65 avg rating β 310 ratings