検索キーワード： 海運の歴史・海賊

ロマンに彩られた海の英雄という神話を引き剥がし、国家権力と無法地帯の狭間で暗躍する暴力と搾取の歴史的現実を突きつける衝撃のノンフィクションです。知的好奇心が研ぎ澄まされる通勤の車内や、じっくりと世界...

歴史的証拠と海の神話が激しく交差するバミューダ・トライアングルの未解決ミステリーを、過度な脚色を削ぎ落として描き出すスリリングかつ知的な海洋ノンフィクションです。毎日の通勤や夜のリラックスタイムに再...

地中海の覇権を懸けたローマ最大の宿敵、その誕生から徹底的な滅亡までの壮大な歴史ドラマを、日々の通勤時間に鮮やかに追体験できる古代史ノンフィクション。砂漠と海に挟まれた小さな港町が、いかにして巨大な海...

北海を支配した小国の興亡という歴史のパラドックスから、海洋帝国の知られざる盛衰と地政学的な生存戦略を紐解く、知的好奇心を深く刺激する極上の歴史ノンフィクションです。静かな夜のリラックスタイムや毎日の...

自然の脅威に立ち向かい、星の導きと風の囁きだけを道標に広大な太平洋を開拓した人類史上最高の航海者たちの壮大な海洋史を体験する旅。耳から広がる無限の海原は、毎日の慌ただしい通勤時間や長距離ドライブを、...

"Narrator Roger Davis, who earned first-class honors in media and anthropology, puts his training to good use to lead listeners through 17th- and 18th-century Malagasy history." - Library Journal The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of...

In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast. The fleets and armies that fought for the Dutch in the decades-long war against Spain included numerous foreigners, largely drawn from countries in northwestern Europe. Likewise, many settlers of Dutch colonies were born in other parts of Europe or the New World.

SUBMERGED STORIES FROM THE GRAVEYARD OF THE PACIFIC Over the past 350 years, an untold number of ships have met their end along the northern Oregon and southern Washington coasts. Shipwrecks of the Pacific Northwest investigates some of the most compelling historic shipwrecks—from the infamous...

Along North Carolina's Outer Banks, where thousands of ships met their doom, the brave surfmen of the U.S. Life-Saving Service braved raging seas, defied death itself, and saved countless lives from certain disaster. This gripping book chronicles the extraordinary men of the U.S. Life-Saving...

In this Second novel A Sloop of My Own, tells his story of how he had his own sloop built by his brothers in Albany and obtained a letter of marque from the governor of New York to hunt Spanish and French prizes and to trade commodities like flour and tobacco in the Caribbean. Ephraim and his brother Cornelius sailed to North Carolina in 1711. Queen Anne’s War between Great Britain against Spain and France is still in full swing. North Carolina at the was at the time was wild and wooly place with fights over the government of the new colony and threats of attack by Native Americans.

From the authors of the #1 bestselling The Sea Hunters come more unforgettable true adventures with famous shipwrecks. Abridged, five CDs, 6...

War at Sea is a dramatic global tour of this remote museum and other formerly lost traces of humanity's naval heritage. It is also an account by the world's leading naval archaeologist of how underwater exploration has discovered these remains, thus resolving mysteries, adding to our understanding of the past, and providing intimate details of the experience of naval warfare. 

Shipwrecks selects the sinkings with the greatest loss of life, the most famous vessels, the richest treasure troves, the most archaeologically significant wreck sites and the most daring rescues. It tells the tales of the fate of the victims, the disastrous mistakes made by ships' captains and navigators, the impossible conditions faced at sea, the courage of those who survived and the audacious attempts to raise what now lies at the bottom of the sea.

A 2026 Audie Awards finalist for Best Nonfiction Narrator and Best History/Biography! "The Zorg remains a book of great importance and one that will likely become a classic. It takes a respected place within a growing historical literature about the slave ship in generaL…a potent exposé of...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Ein Hörbuch zum Einschlafen für Erwachsene, die abends gern noch etwas Schönes hören: Mach es dir bequem und lass dich von einem warmen Licht über dem Meer in den Schlaf begleiten. Seit Jahrhunderten stehen Leuchttürme an den Küsten und tun jede...

Plongez au cœur de l'océan, là où l'horizon disparaît, où chaque vague peut devenir un mur et chaque rafale de vent une épreuve à surmonter. Cet audiobook rassemble des récits de survie en mer, inspirés d'histoires vraies. Naufrages, dérives interminables, tempêtes déchaînées...

Five minutes changed the Pacific War forever — and almost no one alive that morning expected it. What if the empire that had never lost a naval battle was about to be destroyed by a handful of exhausted pilots running on fumes? What if the entire hinge of World War II turned not on battleships...

A cento anni di distanza dalla fatale collisione, Massimo Polidoro ricostruisce la vicenda del Titanic in un racconto corale che intreccia le storie di ufficiali e passeggeri, naufraghi e soccorritori, scienziati e avventurieri. Attraverso gli occhi dei protagonisti assisteremo all'intero svolgimento di una storia intramontabile. Saremo accolti a bordo. Visiteremo la nave e i suoi meravigliosi saloni. Incontreremo i personaggi più interessanti. Vivremo le emozioni della traversata.

'Ground-breaking' - David Gibbins author of A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks 'Lively and fascinating' - N. A. M. Rodger, author of The Price of Victory A sweeping history of piracy through the ages, drawn from previously unseen records held at the National Archives. From the corsairs...

From a brilliant Brookings Institution expert, an “important” (The Wall Street Journal) and “penetrating historical and political study” (Nature) of the critical role that oceans play in the daily struggle for global power, in the bestselling tradition of Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of...