検索キーワード： 海運の歴史・海賊

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...

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...

Two catastrophes. One unshakable truth: the moment humanity declares something invincible is the moment disaster starts writing its opening line. Great Disasters 2-in-1 brings together Dominic Haynes's gripping accounts of the Titanic and Chernobyl — two of history's most devastating reminders that confidence is not the same as safety.

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...

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、...

水に沈みかけた辺境の湿地帯が、いかにしてヨーロッパの経済覇権を握る巨大な交易帝国へと変貌を遂げたのか、その壮大な歴史のうねりを紐解きます。毎日の通勤時間やリラックスしたい夜のひとときに、泥まみれの開...

氷河が削り出した太古の大地と、押し寄せる近代化の波が交錯するカナダ大西洋岸の壮大な歴史ロマンは、毎日の通勤時間を知的好奇心を満たす時間旅行へと変えてくれます。海と生きる先住民の叡智から、ヨーロッパ列...

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...

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.

New York Times best-selling author Caitlin Doughty presents Titanic like never before: through the stories of those who died—and what happened to the bodies. Millions of people trust Caitlin Doughty to explore dark subjects with empathy and humor. Now, in her most ambitious work to date...

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...

Heading south to lands he once considered his home, Beobrand is plunged into a dark world of piracy and slavery when an old friend enlists his help to recover a kidnapped girl. Embarking onto the wind-tossed seas, Beobrand pursues his quarry with single-minded tenacity. But the Whale Road is never calm and his journey is beset with storms, betrayal and violence. As the winds of his wyrd blow him ever further from what he knows, will Beobrand find victory on his quest or has his luck finally abandoned him?

Facing an insurmountable deficit in resources compared to the Union navy, the Confederacy resorted to unorthodox forms of warfare to combat enemy forces. Perhaps the most energetic and effective torpedo corps and secret service company organized during the American Civil War, the Singer Secret Service Corps, led by Texan inventor and entrepreneur Edgar Collins Singer, developed and deployed submarines, underwater weaponry, and explosive devices.

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...