The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
By: Caroline Alexander
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
The bestselling author of The Endurance reveals the startling truth behind the legend of the Mutiny…
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1. Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
By: Jon Krakauer
3.72
Format: 77 pages, ebook
Greg Mortenson has built a global reputation as a selfless humanitarian and children’s crusader, an… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
2. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
By: Hampton Sides
4.27
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
On July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San… read more
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- survival
- history
- adventure
- travel
- historical
- nonfiction
"We live in weary suspense," DeLong wrote. "Wintering in the pack may be a thrilling thing to read about alongside a warm fire, but the actual thing is sufficient to make any man prematurely old."-Hampton Sides, In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
"When De Long arrived in California with Emma that May, he went straight down to the yard and feasted his eyes upon his new ship. He was smitten by the transformation that had taken place during his a…"-Hampton Sides, In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
3. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
By: Simon Winchester
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
4. The Caine Mutiny
By: Herman Wouk
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
The novel that inspired the now-classic film The Caine Mutinyand the hit Broadway play The Caine Mu… read more
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5. 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
By: Roger Crowley
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Now in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
6. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
4.16
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
"With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-w… read more
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- survival
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- historical
- maritime
- nonfiction
"There was a saying on the island: "[I]t is a pity to spoil a good mate by making him a master."-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"Unable to sleep for the third night in a row, he continued to dwell obsessively on the circumstances of the ship's sinking. He could not get the creature out of his mind."-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"Many of the so-called American characteristics,’ a chronicler of the [WW2 University of Minnesota starvation] experiment wrote, ‘—abounding energy, generosity, optimism—become intelligible as the exp…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"How much of assumed national and personal character comes from the fact that we have never truly known need to the point of having our character tested? Willing conscientious objectors underwent cont…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
7. The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
By: Caroline Alexander
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
The bestselling author of The Endurance reveals the startling truth behind the legend of the Mutiny… read more
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- survival
- history
- adventure
- travel
- historical
- maritime
- nonfiction
8. Hornblower and the Hotspur
By: C.S. Forester
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army j… read more
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- historical
- adventure
9. The Mosquito Coast
By: Paul Theroux
4.13
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family t… read more
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10. The Worst Journey in the World
By: Apsley Cherry-Garrard , Caroline Alexander
4.38
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
The Worst Journey in the Worldrecounts Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole… read more
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11. A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
By: Andrés Reséndez
3.68
Format: None pages,
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12. The Mutiny on the Bounty Trilogy
By: Charles Bernard Nordhoff , James Norman Hall
4.00
Format: None pages,
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13. Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
By: Steven Callahan
3.12
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan's dramatic tale of surviv… read more
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14. Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
By: Daniel James Brown
3.80
Format: 220 pages,
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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
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- travel
- historical
- maritime
- nonfiction
16. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
17. 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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- survival
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18. Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
By: Antony Beevor
4.21
Format: 459 pages, Hardcover
The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"It is only when one faces death, observed one of the men there, that one realises the great value of life."-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
"The smell of roasted flesh permeated the air for hours afterwards with the stench of oily-black smoke from the blazing vehicles . Gräbner's body was never identified among all the other carbonized co…"-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
"Many historians, with an ‘if only’ approach to the British defeat, have focused so much on different aspects of Operation Market Garden which went wrong that they have tended to overlook the central …"-Antony Beevor, Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
19. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
20. Mutiny on the Bounty: A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds
By: Peter FitzSimons
4.44
Format: 780 pages, Kindle Edition
The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great st… read more
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- history
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- maritime
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21. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
