Sons of the Waves: A History of the Common Sailor, 1740-1840
By: Stephen Taylor
4.12
Format: 490 pages, Hardcover
British maritime history in the age of sail is full of the deeds of officers like Nelson, but has g…
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1. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
By: Matthew Restall
3.92
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
2. Crash
By: J.G. Ballard
3.59
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scie… read more
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"After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at …"-J.G. Ballard, Crash
3. Moll Flanders
By: Daniel Defoe
3.52
Format: 339 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781853260735. The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Fla… read more
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- historical
"I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm."-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
"I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over..."-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
"Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding Title of Whore."-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
"He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that th…"-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
4. Journey's End
By: R.C. Sherriff
3.86
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editi… read more
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- historical
"You must always think of it like that if you can. Think of it all as - as romantic. It helps."-R.C. Sherriff, Journey's End
5. Sharpe's Rifles (Sharpe, #6)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In 1809, Napoleon's army sweeps across Spain. Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is newly in command of the… read more
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- historical
- military fiction
- adventure
"I could tell you tales of priestly behavior that would make you shudder."-Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe's Rifles (Sharpe, #6)
"– Помните ту ночь, в крепости? – В голосе Луизы звучала мольба, словно для девушки было чрезвычайно важно, чтобы Шарп ее понял. – Помните? Когда дон Блас показал нам хоругвь и рассказал легенду о пос…"-Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe's Rifles (Sharpe, #6)
6. Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
4.28
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic story of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggl… read more
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- historical
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
"For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history. [Cicero, quoted by Goldsworthy in his Augustus]"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
7. Hiroshima
By: John Hersey
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book… read more
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8. Sharpe's Eagle (Sharpe, #8)
By: Bernard Cornwell
3.95
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
After the cowardly incompetence of two officers besmirches their name, Captain Richard Sharpe must … read more
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9. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
By: Henry Fielding , Thomas Keymer , Alice Wakely
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is… read more
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10. Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.41
Format: 397 pages, Paperback
The balance of King Arthur's unified kingdom is threatened by Merlin's quest for the last of Britai… read more
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- historical
- adventure
"If you understand everything, then there is no room for magic."-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)
"Lord Derfel, you do insult a man so very easily. What was it to be? My head in a pit dunged by slaves? What a paltry imagination you do have. Mine, I fear, sometimes seems excessive, even to me."-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)
"Mas quando você tem ordem, você não precisa dos Deuses. Quando tudo está bem ordenado e disciplinado, nada é inesperado. Se você entende tudo, não resta espaço para a magia. Só quando está perdido, a…"-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)
"But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected. If you understand everything,' I said carefully, 'then there's no room left f…"-Bernard Cornwell, Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)
11. Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.43
Format: 436 pages, Paperback
In The Winter King and Enemy of God Bernard Cornwell demonstrated his astonishing ability to make t… read more
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- historical
- adventure
"Il tempo è una storia e io voglio essere colui che la racconta, non colui che la crea."-Bernard Cornwell, Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
"Quando a gente está com problemas é útil descobrir alguém que esteve na mesma dificuldade."-Bernard Cornwell, Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
"Se gli uomini possono comprare la legge, diceva sempre Artù, allora la legge diventa inutile."-Bernard Cornwell, Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
"Dreams are like songs. Their task is not to offer an exact image of the world, but a suggestion of it."-Bernard Cornwell, Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)
12. The Mauritius Command
By: Patrick O'Brian
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
"O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin volumes actually constitute a single 6,443-page novel, one that should ha… read more
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14. Jack Tar: The Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary Seamen in Nelson's Navy
By: Roy A. Adkins , Lesley Adkins
3.80
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousands of sailors an… read more
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15. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- history
- biography
- adventure
- maritime
- historical
- nonfiction
16. Diavola
By: Jennifer Marie Thorne
3.95
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more
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17. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
By: Marc Morris
4.34
Format: 508 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
18. Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
By: Eric Jay Dolin
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet m… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
19. The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
By: Alexander Mikaberidze
4.34
Format: 936 pages, Hardcover
Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely assoc… read more
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- nonfiction
- military fiction
- history
20. Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.26
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
“If Jane Austen had written rousing sea yarns, she would have produced something very close to the … read more
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- historical
- military fiction
- adventure
"Compulsion is the death of friendship."-Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
"I sew his ears on from time to time, sure."-Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
"I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour."-Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
"Rested, shaved, coffee’d, steaked, you will be a different man."-Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
21. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
4.19
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- adventure
22. H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In H.M.S. Surprise, British naval officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin face near-death a… read more
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- historical
- military fiction
- adventure
"Jack, you've debauched my sloth."-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
"Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer."-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
"Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going - the Austrians, the Spaniards, the Russians. Pray, are the Russians good now? It woul…"-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
"Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family, and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the au…"-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
23. The Stranger Times (Stranger Times, #1)
By: C.K. McDonnell
4.18
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stra… read more
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24. Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
By: Caroline Elkins
4.26
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
25. Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior
By: Catherine Hanley
4.20
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. But she was also empress, heir to the English crown—the f… read more
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- historical
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
26. Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
By: Andrea Pitzer
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Long before Bering or Amundsen, long before Franklin or Shackleton, there was William Barents, in m… read more
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- history
- biography
- adventure
- historical
- nonfiction
27. The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain: The Immersive and Brilliant Historical Guide to Regency Britain
By: Ian Mortimer
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
'Ian Mortimer's Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain tells you all you need to know about crim… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
28. All Hands on Deck: A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World
By: Will Sofrin
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
A maritime adventure memoir that follows a crew of misfits hired by Hollywood to sail an 18th-centu… read more
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- history
- biography
- adventure
- maritime
- nonfiction
29. The Emperor Charlemagne
By: E.R. Chamberlin
4.02
Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition
An authoritative biography of the greatest ruler of the medieval period. The Emperor Charlemagne is… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
30. Sons of the Waves: A History of the Common Sailor, 1740-1840
By: Stephen Taylor
4.12
Format: 490 pages, Hardcover
British maritime history in the age of sail is full of the deeds of officers like Nelson, but has g… read more
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- adventure
- maritime
- historical
- military fiction
- nonfiction
31. A Voice from the Main Deck: Being a Record of the Thirty Years' Adventures of Samuel Leech
By: Samuel Leech
3.83
Format: None pages, None
I heard the shot strike the sides of our ship; the whole scene grew indescribably confused and horr… read more
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- nonfiction
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