5 best-selling history books like Voyage of the Liberdade by Joshua Slocum

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Voyage of the Liberdade

By: Joshua Slocum

4.03

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Great mariner's thrilling, first-hand account of the wreck of his ship off the coast of South Ameri…

If you liked the history plot in Voyage of the Liberdade by Joshua Slocum , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Brendan Voyage: A Leather Boat Tracks the Discovery of America by the Irish Sailor Saints

By: Tim Severin , Trondur Pattursson

4.25

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Recounts the harrowing voyage of Timothy Severin and his crew from Dingle, Ireland across the North… read more

Similar categories in Tim Severin's The Brendan Voyage: A Leather Boat Tracks the Discovery of America by the Irish Sailor Saints book and Joshua Slocum's Voyage of the Liberdade

  • history
  • biography
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Joan Druett

2. Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

By: Joan Druett

4.05

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

 Hundreds of miles from civilization, two ships wreck on opposite ends of the same deserted island … read more

Similar categories in Joan Druett's Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World book and Joshua Slocum's Voyage of the Liberdade

  • history
  • biography
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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3. Borne (Borne, #1)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.93

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's Borne (Borne, #1) book and Joshua Slocum's Voyage of the Liberdade

"People with packs are people with purpose."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

"It's not being hurt that hurts,' Borne said."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

"The real reality is something we create every moment of every day, that realities spin off from our decisions in every second we've alive."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

"You forgive if you can forgive yourself. Or live with what you've done. If you cannot live with what you've done, you cannot live with what others have done either."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

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4. Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)

By: Lee Child

4.22

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night… read more

Similar categories in Lee Child's Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11) book and Joshua Slocum's Voyage of the Liberdade

  • adventure
"Now they broke my toothbrush, I don't own anything."

-Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)

"Slippery slope. I carry a spare shirt, pretty soon I'm carrying spare pants. Then I'd need a suitcase. Next thing I know, I've got a house and a car and a savings plan and I'm filling out all kinds o…"

-Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)

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5. Death with Interruptions

By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago

4.00

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question what happens when the gri… read more

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"Al día siguiente no murió nadie."

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

"Eu sunt moartea,restul nu e nimic."

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

"La muerte está enfadada. Es el momento de sacarle la lengua."

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

"Sin muerte no hay resurrección, y sin resurrección no hay iglesia"

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

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6. The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

Format: 625 pages, Paperback

First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical nov… read more

Similar categories in Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers book and Joshua Slocum's Voyage of the Liberdade

  • adventure
"All for one and one for all."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

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7. The Mirror of the Sea

By: Joseph Conrad

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

First published in 1906, The Mirror of the Seawas the first of Joseph Conrad's two autobiographical… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Conrad's The Mirror of the Sea book and Joshua Slocum's Voyage of the Liberdade

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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8. The Bone Orchard (Mike Bowditch, #5)

By: Paul Doiron

4.13

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, Mike Bowditch has left the Maine Warden Service and is workin… read more

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"Just because you're done with the past doesn't mean the past is done with you."

-Paul Doiron, The Bone Orchard (Mike Bowditch, #5)

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9. The Long Way

By: Bernard Moitessier

5.00

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden … read more

Similar categories in Bernard Moitessier's The Long Way book and Joshua Slocum's Voyage of the Liberdade

  • history
  • biography
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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10. A Trick of the Light (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #7)

By: Louise Penny

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Hearts are broken," Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. "Sweet relationships are dead." … read more

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11. The Water in Between: A Journey at Sea

By: Kevin Patterson

3.77

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Wise, funny and beautifully written, The Water in Betweenis an inspiring-and cautionary-tale for an… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Patterson's The Water in Between: A Journey at Sea book and Joshua Slocum's Voyage of the Liberdade

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • adventure

12. The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.47

Format: 1 pages, Hardcover

Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of langu… read more

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13. Gulliver’s Travels

By: Louis Rhead , Jonathan Swift , William Dean Howells , Robert DeMaria Jr.

3.58

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and… read more

Similar categories in Louis Rhead's Gulliver’s Travels book and Joshua Slocum's Voyage of the Liberdade

  • adventure
"Anlamadığınız bir insanı "delidir" diye nitelemek o kadar kolaydır ki!"

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other."

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض"

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young."

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

14. Floreana

By: Margret Wittmer

4.03

Format: 325 pages,

A Woman's Pilgrimage to the Galapagos. A breath-taking firsthand account of Wittmer's successful at… read more

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15. Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more

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16. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.00

Format: 592 pages,

All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more

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17. The ascent of Nanda Devi

By: H.W. Tilman

5.00

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

This book narrates the first ascent of Nanda Devi by the joint British American team lead by H. W. … read more

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18. Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)

By: Agatha Christie

3.91

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond... then came the “suicide” that was mu… read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3) book and Joshua Slocum's Voyage of the Liberdade

"Uncertainty creates panic."

-Agatha Christie, Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)

Cover of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

19. 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

Similar categories in David Grann's The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder book and Joshua Slocum's Voyage of the Liberdade

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • adventure
Cover of Voyage of the Liberdade by Joshua Slocum

20. Voyage of the Liberdade

By: Joshua Slocum

4.03

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Great mariner's thrilling, first-hand account of the wreck of his ship off the coast of South Ameri… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Slocum's Voyage of the Liberdade book and Joshua Slocum's Voyage of the Liberdade

  • history
  • biography
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction

9 must-read adventure books like Voyage of the Liberdade by Joshua Slocum

Transform Your Habits

The Brendan Voyage: A Leather Boat Tracks the Discovery of America by the Irish Sailor Saints

Tim Severin , Trondur Pattursson

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

Joan Druett

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)

Lee Child

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

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20 Top fiction books like The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Richard Pevear, John Lee

Transform Your Habits

Robinson Crusoe

Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

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Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens , George Cruikshank , Philip Horne

3.88

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