Peter Moore

Marooned with a View

Crusoe’s Island: A Rich and Curious History of Pirates, Castaways and Madness

By Andrew Lambert

Peter Moore

From Plymouth to Polynesia

Endeavouring Banks: Exploring Collections from the ‘Endeavour’ Voyage 1768–1771

By Neil Chambers

David Gelber

A Girdle Round about the Earth

The First Circumnavigators: Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery

By Harry Kelsey

David Gelber

When Lisbon Ruled the Waves

Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire

By Roger Crowley

Jeremy Lewis

Press Gangs and Pensioners

Limeys: The True Story of One Man's War Against Ignorance, The Establishment and the Deadly Scurvy

By David I Harvie

Tom Pocock

Britannia Rules the Waves

Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World, 1788-1857

By Peter Padfield

Andrew Taylor

On the Wrong Side of Progress

FitzRoy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast

By John and Mary Gribbin

Evolution's Captain: The Tragic Fate of Robert FitzRoy, the Man who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World

By Peter Nichols

Tim Heald

Shenanigans On Ship

The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

By Caroline Alexander

Paul Johnson

Good Queen Bess

The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True History of the Spanish Armada

By Neil Hanson

William Palmer

Coastal Calamity

The Caliban Shore: The Fate of the Grosvenor Castaways

By Stephen Taylor

Simon Heffer

Warlords At Sea

Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

By Robert K Massie

Lucy Moore

When the Ship Goes Down

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By Erik Larson

Frank McLynn

Time of the Trireme

Salamis: The Greatest Naval Battle of the Ancient World, 480 BC

By Barry Strauss

Andrew Taylor

The Botanical Buccaneer

A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier

By Diana and Michael Preston

Kenneth Rose

Life of Bryan

Royal Servent, Family Friend: The Life and Times of Naval Equerry Captain Sir Bryan Godfrey-Faussett RN, 1836-1945

By George Godfrey-Faussett

Nick Smith

A Native of the Ends of the Earth

Sir James Wordie, Polar Crusader: Exploring the Arctic and Antarctic

By Michael Smith

Christopher Lee

Ships Hoping to Pass in the Night

The Real Cruel Sea: The Merchant Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-1943

By Richard Woodman

Simon Heffer

The Pride of the Fleet

The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815

By N A M Rodger

Nigel Jones

Britannia Rules the Waves

Citizen Sailors: The Royal Navy in the Second World War

By Glyn Prysor

Sea Wolves: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's WW2 Submarines

By Tim Clayton