Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days
By: John D. Whidden
4.12
Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition
John D. Whidden started out at sea in 1834, at the age of twelve, and did not retire until 1870. Th…
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1. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
By: Donald L. Miller
4.18
Format: 671 pages, Hardcover
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"With the Allies on the advance nearly everywhere and invasion talk in the air, London was a welcoming place for young airmen who were taking the fight to Hitler’s doorstep. The first stop for America…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
"In an equally fought battle of attrition both sides sometimes believe they are losing. With Overlord planned for the spring of 1944, Allied leaders became increasingly worried that their air forces w…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
2. Brave Companions: Portraits in History
By: David McCullough
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780671792763 From Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Li… read more
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"…the little known events of a given time, and people who are not in the headlines can be what matters most in the long run – and the long run is the measure of history."-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History
"Mainly, writing means a good deal of hard thinking … yet sometimes the very struggle of getting the words down on paper does result in unexpected discoveries or clarifications."-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History
"The problem, as Thornton Wilder said, lies in the effort to employ the past tense in such a way that it does not rob those events of their character of having occurred in freedom."-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History
"In writing history, to catch the feeling and well as the truth of other times, it is of utmost importance … to convey the sense that things need not have happened as they did…the past, after all, is …"-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History
3. The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
"O'Brian is one author who can put a spark of character into the sawdust of time, and The Ionian Mi… read more
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"Puddings, my dear sir?' cried Graham. Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large."-Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)
"I do not like to sound discontented neither,' said Pullings, 'nor to crab any ship I belong to; but between you and me, Doctor, between you and me, she is more what we call a floating coffin than a s…"-Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)
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"Oh well,' said Jack: and then, 'Did you ever meet Bach?' 'Which Bach?' 'London Bach.' 'Not I.' 'I did. He wrote some pieces for my uncle Fisher, and his young man copied them out fair. But they were …"-Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)
4. Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.41
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
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"You do not mean there is danger of peace?", cried Jack."-Patrick O'Brian, Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
"They played, not beautifully but deep, ignoring their often discordant strings and striking right into the heart of the music they knew best, the true notes acting as their milestones. On the poop ab…"-Patrick O'Brian, Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
5. The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.41
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
An essential of the truly gripping book for the narrative addict is the creation of a whole, solidl… read more
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"At one time Stephen had been marooned on a bare rock in the South Atlantic, and his only drink was the warm rainwater that remained in the guano-filled hollows. It had been more disagreeable than Mrs…"-Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
"...looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute is eating my hat.' 'So he is, too,' said Dr. Maturin. 'But do not be perturbed, Jac…"-Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
"You are a reasonably civil, complaisant creature on dry land,' said Stephen, 'but the moment you are afloat you become pragmatical and absolute, a bashaw - do this, do that, gluppit the prawling stra…"-Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
"Stephen Maturin sipped his scalding coffee, the right Mocha berry, brought back from Arabia Felix in the pilgrim dhows, and considered. He was naturally a reserved and even a secretive man: his illeg…"-Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
6. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
By: David Grann
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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7. The Surgeon's Mate (Aubrey & Maturin, #7)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.40
Format: 382 pages, Paperback
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"(She) threw Stephen a quick, apologetic glance and ran into the house. She might be in a strange hurry of spirits, but she moved with the perfect, unconscious grace that had always touched him, and h…"-Patrick O'Brian, The Surgeon's Mate (Aubrey & Maturin, #7)
8. The Mauritius Command
By: Patrick O'Brian
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
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9. Clear the Bridge!: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang
By: Richard H. O'Kane
3.78
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
Tang carried the war to the enemy with unparalleled ferocity. This is her story as told by her skip… read more
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10. Sitka
By: Louis L'Amour
3.21
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
He was born in the swamps of the Eastern States, but he came of age on the frontier. Now, Jean LaFa… read more
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11. Twelve Desperate Miles: The Epic World War II Voyage of the SS Contessa
By: Tim Brady
3.00
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
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12. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.77
Format: None pages,
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13. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
By: Dava Sobel , Neil Armstrong
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorni… read more
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14. Dishonour in Denmark (The Call of the Sea, #10)
By: Andrew Wareham
4.51
Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition
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15. How To Build A Car
By: Adrian Newey
4.48
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
'Adrian has a unique gift for understanding drivers and racing cars. He is ultra competitive but ne… read more
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16. The Broken Sword
By: Poul Anderson
3.86
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Thor broke the sword Tyrfing to save the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree that binds earth, heaven and … read more
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"Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness that can see naught above or beyond itse…"-Poul Anderson, The Broken Sword
17. On Full Automatic: Surviving 13 Months in Vietnam
By: William V. Taylor Jr.
4.60
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
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18. Fierce Valor: The True Story of Ronald Speirs and his Band of Brothers
By: Erik Dorr
4.48
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Fans of Stephen E. Ambrose’s Band of Brothers will be drawn to this complex portrait of the controv… read more
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19. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Me… read more
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20. Online Affair (Dev Haskell Mystery, #37)
By: Mike Faricy
4.66
Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition
Private Investigator Dev Haskell receives a phone call from his long-time friend, Mike McManus. Mik… read more
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21. The boat they laughed at
By: Max Liberson
4.47
Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition
After buying a 42 foot ferro cement boat for £1500 to use as a house boat and being teased because … read more
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22. Living in the Lap of the Gods
By: Lynn Roach
4.64
Format: 453 pages, Kindle Edition
It was love at first sight when Lynn laid eyes on her. He was a Welsh toolmaker by trade dreaming o… read more
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23. Come Sail With Me
By: Wendy Leo-Smith
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
The woman who took a chance At 42 and living alone in Spain, Wendy's life really did begin again… read more
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24. The Book of Elsewhere
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3.42
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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25. A Pensioner's Folly: Sailing 15,400 miles in a small boat from the UK to New Zealand
By: Chris Ayres
3.89
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On the point of being able to retire, it dawned on him that maybe he could, indeed, set out to try … read more
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26. 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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27. The Sea Above Them: A powerful novel of disaster at sea (The Submariner Sinclair Naval Thriller Series Book 7)
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4.11
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28. Twenty Years Before the Mast
By: Charles Erskine
4.05
Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1838 the able-bodied seaman Charles Erskine joined the exploring expedition of Charles Wilkes wh… read more
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29. Life Aboard a British Privateer: The Illustrated First Hand Account of a Famous Privateer Captain at War with the Spanish During the Reign of Queen Anne 1707-1711
By: Robert C. Leslie
3.88
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Woodes Rogers-the man who rescued 'Robinson Crusoe' In the history of the British at sea, the names… read more
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30. Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days
By: John D. Whidden
4.12
Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition
John D. Whidden started out at sea in 1834, at the age of twelve, and did not retire until 1870. Th… read more
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31. House Guests (Dev Haskell - Private Investigator Book 38)
By: Mike Faricy
4.78
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
Dev Haskell attends the funeral of a childhood friend and meets her adult children. Her son works f… read more
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