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nautical nonfiction ⚓

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tales of history's infamous ships and those who sailed them

The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

Fiction-like nonfiction

Nonfiction (mostly 😺) that read like fiction

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

The Year of Magical Thinking

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

Green Reader

The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control

What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

On Immunity: An Inoculation

American Pastoral

The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control

What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

Dan Snow’s History Hit Recs

Books that come up in the podcast ‘Dan Snow’s History Hit’ - authored by the guest, mentioned as a useful source, or otherwise recommended.

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times

Forgotten Voices of the Somme: The Most Devastating Battle of the Great War in the Words of Those Who Survived

SAS Great Escapes: Daring World War Two Escapes from the Famous Military Fighting Force

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times

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