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| Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 1996-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0393315371 |
In the mid-eighteenth century, Peter Palafox, the son of a poor Irish parson, signs on a ship as a midshipman, just in time for Anson's epic circumnavigation of the world.
| Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
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| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 1956 |
| Genre | : Sea stories |
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| Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 343 |
| Release | : 2011-12-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0393063690 |
The sixteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series, and Patrick O'Brian's first bestseller in the United States. At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean reminds Stephen of Homer's famous description, and portends an underwater volcanic eruption that will create a new island overnight and leave an indelible impression on the reader's imagination. Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen's mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America. Jack will survive a desperate open boat journey and come face to face with his illegitimate black son; Stephen, caught up in the aftermath of his failed coup, will flee for his life into the high, frozen wastes of the Andes; and Patrick O'Brian's brilliantly detailed narrative will reunite them at last in a breathtaking chase through stormy seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted.
| Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
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| Release | : 1999 |
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| Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2011-12-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0393088480 |
The seventeenth novel in the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series of naval tales, which the New York Times Book Review has described as "the best historical novels ever written." Having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, at least initially, but for Stephen it is disastrous: his little daughter appears to be autistic, incapable of speech or contact, while his wife, Diana, unable to bear this situation, has disappeared, her house being looked after by the widowed Clarissa Oakes. Much of The Commodore takes place on land, in sitting rooms and in drafty castles, but the roar of the great guns is never far from our hearing. Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland, where the French are mounting an invasion that will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent. The subtle interweaving of these disparate themes is an achievement of pure storytelling by one of our greatest living novelists.
| Author | : Patrick O’Brian |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2012-06-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0007466455 |
The second book Patrick O’Brian wrote about the sea and a brilliant sequel to The Golden Ocean.
| Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2011-12-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0393088472 |
"[The series shows] a joy in language that jumps from every page....You're in for a wonderful voyage."—Cutler Durkee, People Shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner from the wreck. A vicious attack by Malay pirates is repulsed, but the makeshift vessel burns, and they are truly marooned. Their escape from this predicament is one that only the whimsy and ingenuity of Patrick O'Brian—or Stephen Maturin—could devise. In command now of a new ship, the Nutmeg, Aubrey pursues his interrupted mission. The dreadful penal colony in New South Wales, harrowingly described, is the backdrop to a diplomatic crisis provoked by Maturin's Irish temper, and to a near-fatal encounter with the wildlife of the Australian outback.
| Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2011-12-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0393088510 |
"One of the best novelists since Jane Austen....The Hundred Days may be the best installment yet....I give O'Brian's fans joy of it."—Philadelphia Inquirer Napoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead the French armies to triumph at Waterloo. In the Balkans, preparing a thrust northwards into Central Europe to block the Russians and Austrians, a horde of Muslim mercenaries is gathering. They are inclined toward Napoleon because of his conversion to Islam during the Egyptian campaign, but they will not move without a shipment of gold ingots from Sheik Ibn Hazm which, according to British intelligence, is on its way via camel caravan to the coast of North Africa. It is this gold that Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin must at all costs intercept. The fate of Europe hinges on their desperate mission. "The Hundred Days is certain to delight O'Brian's fans, for whom happiness is an unending stream of Aubrey/Maturin books....[It] is a fine novel that stands proudly on the shelf with the others."—Los Angeles Times
| Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2011-12-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0393063828 |
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 | : 344 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780393037098 |
"The finest writer of sea-stories in the English language."--J. de Courcy Ireland
