18 must-read history books like Expedition Deep Ocean: The First Descent to the Bottom of All Five of the World's Oceans by Josh Young

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Expedition Deep Ocean: The First Descent to the Bottom of All Five of the World's Oceans

By: Josh Young

3.58

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of the history-making mission to reach the bottom of all five of the world’s oce…

If you liked the history plot in Expedition Deep Ocean: The First Descent to the Bottom of All Five of the World's Oceans by Josh Young , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics

By: Gary Smith

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

Or that Asian Americans are most susceptible to heart attacks on the fourth day of the month? Or th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 by Michihiko Hachiya, John W. Dower, None

2. Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945

By: Michihiko Hachiya , John W. Dower , None

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 by Brian M. Fagan

3. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850

By: Brian M. Fagan

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Paperback

The Little Ice Agetells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of mod… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science

4. A History of the World in 6 Glasses

By: Tom Standage

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

5. On Bullshit

By: Harry G. Frankfurt

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A #1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is s… read more

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6. Great North Road

By: Peter F. Hamilton

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A century from now, thanks to a technology allowing instantaneous travel across light-years, humani… read more

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7. Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times

By: George Crile

4.36

Format: 544 pages,

s/t: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress & a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the His… read more

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8. Opium: A History

By: Martin Booth

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Known to mankind since prehistoric times, opium is arguably the oldest and most widely used narcoti… read more

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9. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

By: Charles Seife

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it, and the Church used it… read more

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10. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road

By: Cat Jarman

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
  • audiobook
Cover of Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds by Thomas Halliday

11. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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12. Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide

By: Hawon Jung

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening firsthand account of the ongoing and trailblazing feminist movement in South Korea—o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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13. Alien Clay

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill  Gates

14. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

By: Bill Gates

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing … read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver

By: Jill Heinerth

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s fin… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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16. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works

By: Helen Czerski

4.23

Format: 446 pages, Hardcover

A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes by Ron Cowen

17. Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes

By: Ron Cowen

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's general theory of re… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
  • audiobook
Cover of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by Caroline Dodds Pennock

18. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

By: Caroline Dodds Pennock

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Ag… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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19. Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery

By: Christie Aschwanden

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A New York Times Sports and Fitness Bestseller “The definitive tour through a bewildering jungle o… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. The Brilliant Abyss

By: Helen Scales

4.04

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A journey into the alien depths of the sea, and into our possible future, from a marine biologist k… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"The oceans, it turns out, are full of bone-eating worms"

-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

"Not so very long ago, the deep was a tremendous void containing myths, legends and endless unknowns."

-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

"There are no compelling reasons for exploiting the deep, just industry and politics vying to push into that last frontier."

-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

"The deep has no stars at night to remind us it is there, and no moon shining down. And yet, this hidden place reaches into our daily lives and makes vital things happen without our knowing. The deep,…"

-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

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21. Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas

By: Karen Pinchin

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

**THE INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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22. Expedition Deep Ocean: The First Descent to the Bottom of All Five of the World's Oceans

By: Josh Young

3.58

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of the history-making mission to reach the bottom of all five of the world’s oce… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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23. Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization

By: Brian M. Fagan

3.58

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Humanity’s last major source of food from the wild, and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civ… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Sailing Alone: A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea by Richard J.  King

24. Sailing Alone: A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea

By: Richard J. King

3.95

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A story as vast and exhilarating as the open ocean itself, SAILING ALONE chronicles the daring, dis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • nature
  • adventure
Cover of Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World by Joshua B. Freeman

25. Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World

By: Joshua B. Freeman

3.82

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

"Freeman’s rich and ambitious Behemoth depicts a world in retreat that still looms large in the nat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
  • audiobook
Cover of The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe by William Poundstone

26. The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe

By: William Poundstone

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? , a fascinating look at how an equation … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor by David L. Mearns

27. The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor

By: David L. Mearns

4.05

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

This gripping memoir by the world’s foremost marine geologist is an enthralling blend of maritime h… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention by Daniel L. Everett

28. How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention

By: Daniel L. Everett

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how di… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
  • audiobook
Cover of A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion by Fay Bound Alberti

29. A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion

By: Fay Bound Alberti

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Despite 21st-century fears of an 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Catalpa Rescue: The gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison break in Australian history by Peter FitzSimons

30. The Catalpa Rescue: The gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison break in Australian history

By: Peter FitzSimons

4.29

Format: 559 pages, Kindle Edition

The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Austr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Art of Risk: What we can learn from the world's leading risk-takers by Richard                        Harris

31. The Art of Risk: What we can learn from the world's leading risk-takers

By: Richard Harris

4.26

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

Diving doctor on the Thai Cave Rescue (now a Netflix series) and former joint Australian of the Yea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

17 Best science books like Expedition Deep Ocean: The First Descent to the Bottom of All Five of the World's Oceans by Josh Young

Transform Your Habits

Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics

Gary Smith

3.41

Transform Your Habits

The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850

Brian M. Fagan

4.12

Transform Your Habits

River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road

Cat Jarman

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Thomas Halliday

4.13

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8 Best audiobook books like Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver by Jill Heinerth

Transform Your Habits

The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

Susan Casey

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver

Jill Heinerth

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Aquanaut: A Life Beneath The Surface – The Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue

Rick Stanton

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Expedition Deep Ocean: The First Descent to the Bottom of All Five of the World's Oceans

Josh Young

3.58

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