The Sailor's Bookshelf: Fifty Books to Know the Sea

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  Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation

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  A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

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  The Wine-Dark Sea (Aubrey & Maturin, #16)

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  The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy)

  From the acclaimed, bestselling author of  Make Your Bed —a short, inspirational book of advice and leadership lessons that Admiral McRaven collected over his four decades as a Navy SEAL.
  
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  Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

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  Pirate Latitudes

  Jamaica in 1665 is a rough outpost of the English crown, a minor colony holding out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, Jamaica′s capital, a cut-throat town of taverns, grog …

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  The Bookseller of Kabul

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  Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune

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  A Christmas Carol

  
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  The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

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