Captain James Cook
By: Rob Mundle
4.38
Format: 541 pages, Kindle Edition
A biography that puts you on the quarterdeck with history's greatest sailor Captain James Cook is …
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1. An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor
By: Michael Smith
4.51
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The story of the remarkable Tom Crean who ran away to sea aged 15 and played a memorable role in An… read more
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- history
- biography
- adventure
- historical
- nonfiction
2. Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #1)
By: David Hunt
3.14
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2014 Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Book Award for Nonfiction Girt. No word… read more
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3. A Christmas Carol
By: Charles Dickens
4.08
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
'If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled wit… read more
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"Hallo, my fine fellow!"-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
"God bless us, every one!"-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
"And how did little Tim behave?"-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
"Marley was dead: to begin with."-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
4. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons
By: Stephen King
4.21
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
A man convicted of murder lives in a prison brutally ruled by a sadistic warden and secretly run by… read more
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5. Dark Emu
By: Bruce Pascoe
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial … read more
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6. The North Water
By: Ian McGuire
3.98
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
A ship sets sail with a killer on board . . . 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arcti… read more
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- historical
- adventure
"The redundancy of flesh, he thinks, the helplessness of meat, how can we conjure spirit from a bone?"-Ian McGuire, The North Water
"Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do."-Ian McGuire, The North Water
"Cleverness, he thinks, will get you nowhere; it is only the stupid, the brilliantly stupid, who will inherit the earth."-Ian McGuire, The North Water
"Death, he believes, is a kind of making, a kind of building up. What was one thing, he thinks, is become something else."-Ian McGuire, The North Water
7. Everest 1953: The Epic Story of the First Ascent
By: Mick Conefrey
2.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Reaching the top of the world in 1953 was one of the most significant achievements in the history o… read more
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8. The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
By: John Buchan
3.60
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—un… read more
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- adventure
"By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like thi…"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
9. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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- nonfiction
"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
10. Madhouse at the End of the Earth
By: Julian Sancton
4.27
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expeditio… read more
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- history
- biography
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- historical
- nonfiction
"Among the greatest threats future travelers to Mars are likely to face is an interplanetary version of winter over-syndrome. The unknown icescapes around the earth poles, particularly Antarctica, see…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"Cook referred to the symptoms collectively as polar anemia. Researchers today use the term winter over-syndrome. But it's essentially the same thing. A prevailing theory suggests it's a form of hypot…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"But in emphasizing the likelihood of a connection between winter over-syndrome and what is now known as seasonal effective disorder, a variation in mood that correlates with a dwindling of daylight h…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"Note: Dr. Lawrence Polinkis who analyzed clinical data from American men and women at Antarctica's Mcmurdo station Amundsen Scott's South Pole station posits specifically that the memory loss and oth…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
11. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
By: Jack Weatherford
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback… read more
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- historical
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"The first key to leadership is self-control."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to de…"-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
12. The Lion (The Golden Age #1)
By: Conn Iggulden
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Ancient Greece, 5th century BC The age of myths and legends has given way to the world of men. I… read more
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- historical
13. Geneva
By: Richard Armitage
3.64
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sarah Collier has started to show the same tell-tale signs of the Alz… read more
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14. Hex
By: Thomas Olde Heuvelt
3.73
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The English language debut of the bestselling Dutch novel, Hex, from Thomas Olde Heuvelt--a Hugo an… read more
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"A magia existe nas mentes daqueles que acreditam nela, não em sua verdadeira influência sobre a realidade."-Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Hex
"This is all it takes for people to plunge into insanity: one night alone with themselves and what they fear the most."-Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Hex
"People desperately resisted the idea of their own death by looking away for as long as they could and avoiding the subject."-Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Hex
"The events of the past days began to come back to him now, slow and fragmented, like pieces of driftwood washing ashore in the aftermath of a shipwreck."-Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Hex
15. V2: A Novel of World War II
By: Robert Harris
3.91
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Fatherland and Munich comes a WWII thriller about a German rocket e… read more
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16. Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering
By: Cameron R. Hanes
4.04
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
THE EXPLOSIVE NEW YORK TIMES AND NATIONAL BESTSELLERPush beyond your physical limits to improve you… read more
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- biography
"This is about abolishing the ego and taking the first step toward becoming the real you!"-Cameron R. Hanes, Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering
17. The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
By: Marc David Baer
3.95
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
18. Shackleton: A Biography
By: Ranulph Fiennes
4.32
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Discover the story Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition through the words of the worl… read more
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- biography
- adventure
- historical
- nonfiction
19. Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
By: Buddy Levy
4.42
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came… read more
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- biography
- adventure
- maritime
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- nonfiction
20. Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map
By: Grantlee Kieza
4.48
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map In 1810, Matthew… read more
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- biography
- historical
- nonfiction
- australia
21. Captain James Cook
By: Rob Mundle
4.38
Format: 541 pages, Kindle Edition
A biography that puts you on the quarterdeck with history's greatest sailor Captain James Cook is … read more
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