6 best-selling adventure books like Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness by Neil Swidey

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Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness

By: Neil Swidey

3.87

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless tunnel hundreds of feet under Ma…

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1. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

By: Erik Larson

4.05

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • survival
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere."

-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

"People seemed to believe that technology had stripped hurricanes of their power to kill. No hurricane expert endorsed this view."

-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

"This is the story of Isaac and his time in America, the last turning of the centuries, when the hubris of men led them to believe they could disregard even nature itself."

-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

"No one ever remembered a nice day. But no one ever forget the feel of paralyzed fish, the thud of walnut-sized hail against a horse's flank, or the way a superheated wind could turn your eyes to burl…"

-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

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2. The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue

By: Casey Sherman , Michael J. Tougias

3.85

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor'easter in years. As the weat… read more

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  • survival
  • history
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness

By: Neil Swidey

3.87

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless tunnel hundreds of feet under Ma… read more

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  • engineering
  • survival
  • science
  • history
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. The Book of Ruth

By: Jane Hamilton

3.37

Format: 120 pages,

Winner of the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel, this exquisite book confron… read more

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5. Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth

By: James M. Tabor

3.44

Format: 336 pages,

Nel 2004, l'esploratore americano Bill Stone e l'ucraino Alexander Klimchouk hanno guidato due dive… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
  • adventure
Cover of Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Jeffrey Kluger, Jim Lovell, Fred Sanders

6. Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13

By: Jeffrey Kluger , Jim Lovell , Fred Sanders

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

April 1970. The glory days of the Apollo space program. NASA send Commander Jim Lovell and two othe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science

7. Apollo 8

By: Jeffrey Kluger

0.00

Format: None pages,

In August 1968, one short year after three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, NASA… read more

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8. The Secrets of Wishtide

By: Kate Saunders

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Mrs. Laetitia Rodd, aged fifty-two, is the widow of an archdeacon. Living in Hampstead with her con… read more

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9. Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny

By: Mike Dash

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king's r… read more

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10. Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival

By: Dean King

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A spectacular true odyssey through the extremes of the Sahara Desert in the early 19th century. Rea… read more

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11. Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894

By: Daniel James Brown

3.80

Format: 220 pages,

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12. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

By: Daniel James Brown

3.59

Format: 464 pages,

In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Il… read more

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13. Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

By: Adam Makos

3.87

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For readers of Unbrokenand The Boys in the Boatcomes an unforgettable tale of courage from America'… read more

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14. Assassination Vacation

By: Sarah Vowell

3.67

Format: 220 pages,

Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and… read more

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15. The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep

By: Guy Leschziner

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

For Dr. Guy Leschziner's patients, there is no rest for the weary in mind and body. Insomnia, narco… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver

By: Jill Heinerth

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s fin… read more

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  • adventure
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

By: William H. McRaven

4.44

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"They were survivors. They didn't complain. They didn't blame others for their misfortune. They worked hard and expected the same from their children. They treasured their friendships. They fought for…"

-William H. McRaven, Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

Cover of Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade

18. Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro

By: Rachel Slade

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the containe… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine by S.C. Gwynne

19. His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine

By: S.C. Gwynne

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon come… read more

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  • history
  • science
  • audiobook
Cover of Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy

20. Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition

By: Buddy Levy

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Based on the author's exhaustive research, the incredible true story of the Greely Expedition, one … read more

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  • science
  • history
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Marion Lane and the Deadly Rose (Marion Lane, #2) by T.A. Willberg

21. Marion Lane and the Deadly Rose (Marion Lane, #2)

By: T.A. Willberg

3.62

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"What a delight... I found myself so drawn into this world of peculiar crimes that finishing the la… read more

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10 Best audiobook books like Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness by Neil Swidey

Transform Your Habits

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

Erik Larson

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue

Casey Sherman , Michael J. Tougias

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness

Neil Swidey

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep

Guy Leschziner

4.02

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8 Best audiobook books like Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver by Jill Heinerth

Transform Your Habits

The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

Susan Casey

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver

Jill Heinerth

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Aquanaut: A Life Beneath The Surface – The Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue

Rick Stanton

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Expedition Deep Ocean: The First Descent to the Bottom of All Five of the World's Oceans

Josh Young

3.58

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