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The Slave Ship: A Human History
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Unlike most historys, The Slave Ship is very readable, reads like a novel.
Makes you want to throw up, what the Europens did to these people. Sailors and slaves alike, everyone suffers.
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Thunderstruck
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I did enjoy [[ASIN:0375725601 The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America]] and was hoping for at least a similar experience here. Unfortunately the problems I had with "Devil" -- which at its base are a loose tying together of two basically unrelated stories (a historical development along with a murder m... »
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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The appeal of Dava Sobel's Longitude was, in part, that it illuminated a little-known piece of history through a series of captivating incidents and engaging personalities. Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea is certainly cast from the same mold, examining the 19th-century Pacific whaling industry through the arc of the sinking ... »
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