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Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0007255837 |
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Set sail for the read of your life! Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets.
Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1990-08-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780393307054 |
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The beginning of the sweeping Aubrey-Maturin series. "The best sea story I have ever read."—Sir Francis Chichester This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.
Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1990-08-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393058956 |
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The classic first novel of the epic Aubrey/Maturin series, widely considered “the best historical novels ever written” (Richard Snow, New York Times). Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as commander: the fourteen-gun ship HMS Sophie. Meanwhile—after a heated first encounter that nearly comes to a duel—Aubrey and a brilliant but down-on-his-luck physician, Stephen Maturin, strike up an unlikely rapport. On a whim, Aubrey invites Maturin to join his crew as the Sophie’s surgeon. And so begins the legendary friendship that anchors this beloved saga set against the thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. Through every ensuing adventure on which Aubrey and Maturin embark, from the witty parley of their lovers and enemies to the roar of broadsides as great ships close in battle around them, O’Brian “provides endlessly varying shocks and surprises—comic, grim, farcical and tragic.… [A] whole, solidly living world for the imagination to inhabit” (A. S. Byatt).
Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2011-12-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393063658 |
Download The Letter of Marque (Vol. Book 12) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Fine stuff...[The Letter of Marque] leaves the devotee of naval fiction eager for sequels." —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World Captain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old friend Stephen Maturin, usually cast as a ship’s surgeon to mask his discreet activities on behalf of British Intelligence, has bought for Aubrey his former ship the Surprise to command as a privateer, more politely termed a letter of marque. Together they sail on a desperate mission against the French, which, if successful, may redeem Aubrey from the private hell of his disgrace. A nighttime battle with an unusual climax, a jewel of great value, and Maturin’s fondness for opium make this segment of Patrick O’Brian’s masterful series both original and profoundly exciting.
Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2000-09-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393088502 |
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"The old master has us again in the palm of his hand." —Los Angeles Times Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a peacetime navy. When the Surprise is nearly sunk on her way to South America—where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain—the delay occasioned by repairs reaps a harvest of strange consequences. The South American expedition is a desperate affair; and in the end Jack's bold initiative to strike at the vastly superior Spanish fleet precipitates a spectacular naval action that will determine both Chile's fate and his own.
Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780393037067 |
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Aubrey and Maturin are caught in the outbreak of the War of 1812.
Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character) |
ISBN | : 9780393060119 |
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Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2011-12-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393063828 |
Download The Far Side of the World (Vol. Book 10) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The tenth installment in the beloved, epic Aubrey/Maturin series and inspiration for the major motion picture starring Russell Crowe. The War of 1812 continues, and Captain Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to wreak havoc with the British whaling trade. Meanwhile, Stephen Maturin has a mission of his own in the world of secret intelligence and comes face to face with the harsh realities for women of the age. Disaster in various guises awaits them in the Great South Sea and in the far reaches of the Pacific—typhoons, castaways, shipwrecks, an ill-fated affair, murder, and criminal insanity—as well as a bold rescue by a crew of seafaring female warriors.
Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780393037043 |
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Stephen Maturin brings Captain Jack Aubrey secret orders to lead an expedition against the French islands of Mauritius and La Reunion, but the conduct of two of his own officers threatens the success of the mission.
Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1990-08-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393059936 |
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“If Jane Austen had written rousing sea yarns, she would have produced something very close to the prose of Patrick O'Brian.” —Time It’s 1802. The Treaty of Amiens has brought an end to the hostilities between Great Britain and France. Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend, naval surgeon Stephen Maturin, are enjoying the respite in the English countryside, besotted with two beautiful cousins, Sophie Williams and Diana Villiers—until Aubrey loses his fortune and they flee to France to escape his creditors. While in France, Napoleon smashes the Peace of Amiens and war begins anew. Aubrey and Maturin, now finding themselves behind enemy lines, make their way back to England. Maturin is sent to Spain on an intelligence-gathering mission and the now-solvent Aubrey assumes command of a strange warship, pursuing his quarry straight into the mouth of a French-held harbor. Amidst the rollicking adventures at sea and mishaps on land, Aubrey and Maturin’s friendship is tested by their romantic entanglements with the cousins in this brilliant second installment of the epic series.