The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans

The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans

By
David Abulafia
David Abulafia
2019 • 1,088 pages

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81 books

Asia

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zach
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Hun Sen’s Cambodia
China's Last Empire
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
The Rising Sun

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9 books

World History

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zach
A History of the World in 100 Objects
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
The Arabs: A History
Four Lost Cities
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

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123 books

American History

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zach
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
John Adams
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
Washington: A Life
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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41 books

Africa

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zach
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
I Didn't Do It for You : How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

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91 books

Europe

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zach
A Moveable Feast
The Judgment of Paris
Paris: The Secret History
Venice: A New History
Seven Ages Of Paris
History of Rome
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

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761 books

Own Kindle Unread

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A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Day of Infamy
Gold of Our Fathers
The Ten Thousand Doors of January

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862 books

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A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Day of Infamy
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Fleet of Knives
Gold of Our Fathers
The Ten Thousand Doors of January

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300 books

Landscape And Place

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Zack D
Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West

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107 books

Ecology

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The Zen of Fish
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
Silt Road: The Story of a Lost River
High Cotton: Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta

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198 books

Environmental History

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Zack D
Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent
Apollo in the Age of Aquarius

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1,728 books

Ready

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Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places
Hedge Britannia
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
Ten Days in May
Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World
The Isles: A History
The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic

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The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul
Aviators, The: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil
Becoming Queen

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1,113 books

Prologue

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C. S. Lewis - A Life
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Becoming Queen
Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten
Custer's Trials

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29 books

Maritime And Naval

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Pierke
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
To Rule the Waves
The Sea-Wolf

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29 books

World History

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Pierke
The Internationalists
Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
Millennium: From Religion to Revolution: How Civilization Has Changed Over a Thousand Years
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Wij, de mens
The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World

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371 books

History

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Islamic Empires
A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
Viking Britain
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Last Kingdom

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516 books

History

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European History for Dummies
Secret Victory: The Intelligence War that beat the IRA
Mossad
One Minute to Midnight - Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
In Search of the Dark Ages
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949

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2,160 books

Ebooks

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… And What Do You Do?: What The Royal Family Don't Want You To Know
Forensics: The Science Behind the Deaths of Famous People
False Memory OCD Recovery: Step by Step Recovery Guide
I Travel by Night
Last Train from Perdition
The Border
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

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17,840 books

My Library

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Fermi Remembered
Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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52 books

Brain Using

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Shannon
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy