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| Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2008-12-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0393333167 |
Setting out with his rough seafaring uncle and an elderly archaeologist cousin after the deaths of his missionary parents, 1930s American teen Derrick joins a culturally lavish search for a cache of priceless Asian jade.
| Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 1976 |
| Genre | : Children's stories |
| ISBN | : 9780727400611 |
| Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2007-04 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780793064731 |
| Author | : Patrick O’Brian |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
| Total Pages | : 842 |
| Release | : 2013-11-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0007538200 |
Three of Patrick O’Brian’s glorious adventure novels in one ebook for the first time. If you love the Aubrey-Maturin series then you’ll adore these.
| Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015-02-12 |
| Genre | : Adventure stories |
| ISBN | : 9780008112936 |
A classic Patrick O'Brian novel, back in print after many years with three bonus tales of nautical adventure.
| Author | : Dean King |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 679 |
| Release | : 2012-03-20 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1453238336 |
DIVA revealing and insightful look at one of the modern world’s most acclaimed historical novelists/div DIVPatrick O’Brian was well into his seventies when the world fell in love with his greatest creation: the maritime adventures of Royal Navy Captain Jack Aubrey and ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin. But despite his fame, little detail was available about the life of the reclusive author, whose mysterious past King uncovers in this groundbreaking biography./divDIV /divDIVKing traces O’Brian’s personal history, beginning as a London-born Protestant named Richard Patrick Russ, to his tortured relationship with his first wife and child, to his emergence from World War II with the entirely new identity under which he would publish twenty volumes in the Aubrey–Maturin series. What King unearths is a life no less thrilling than the seafaring world of O’Brian’s imagination./div
| Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2007-11-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0393245136 |
"One of the best novelists since Jane Austen."—Philadelphia Inquirer The protagonist of this World War II novel is a prisoner of the German army in France. In order to keep himself sane while denying the charges and absorbing the beatings of his captors, Richard Temple conducts a minute examination—one might almost call it a prosecution—of his own life. Temple escapes from a blighted childhood and his widowed, alcoholic mother thanks to an artistic gift, the one thing of value he has to his name. His life as a painter in London of the '30s is cruelly deprived. In order to eat, he squanders this one asset by becoming a forger of art, specializing in minor works by Utrillo. He is rescued by the love of a beautiful and wealthy woman, and it is the failure of this relationship and the outbreak of war that propel him into the world of espionage.
| Author | : Robert E. Howard |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 52 |
| Release | : 2008-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781406572841 |
Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. He is well known for having created the character Conan the Cimmerian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond. Voracious reading, along with a natural talent for prose writing and the encouragement of teachers, conspired to create in Howard an interest in becoming a professional writer. One by one he discovered the authors that would influence his later work: Jack London and Rudyard Kipling. It's clear from Howard's earliest writings and the recollections of his friends that he suffered from severe depression from an early age. Friends recall him defending the act of suicide as a valid alternative as early as eighteen years old, while many of his stories and poems have a suicidal gloom and intensity that seem prescient in hindsight, describing such an end not as a tragedy but as a release from hell on earth.
| Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 1996-10-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 039334441X |
The first novel Patrick O'Brian ever wrote about the sea, a precursor to the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series. In the year 1740, Commodore (later Admiral) George Anson embarked on a voyage that would become one of the most famous exploits in British naval history. Sailing through poorly charted waters, Anson and his men encountered disaster, disease, and astonishing success. They circumnavigated the globe and seized a nearly incalcuable sum of Spanish gold and silver, but only one of the five ships survived. This is the background to the first novel Patrick O'Brian ever wrote about the sea, a precursor to the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series that shares the excitement and rich humor of those books. The protagonist is Peter Palafox, son of a poor Irish parson, who signs on as a midshipman, never before having seen a ship. Together with his lifelong friend Sean, Peter sets out to seek his fortune, embarking upon a journey of danger, disappointment, foreign lands, and excitement. Here is a tale certain to please not only admirers of O'Brian's work but also any reader with an adventurous soul.
| Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 1997-12-08 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780226616285 |
One of our greatest writers about the sea has written an engrossing story of one of history's most legendary maritime explorers. Patrick O'Brian's biography of naturalist, explorer and co-founder of Australia, Joseph Banks, is narrative history at its finest. Published to rave reviews, it reveals Banks to be a man of enduring importance, and establishes itself as a classic of exploration. "It is in his description of that arduous three-year voyage [on the ship Endeavor] that Mr. O'Brian is at his most brilliant. . . . He makes us understand what life within this wooden world was like, with its 94 male souls, two dogs, a cat and a goat."—Linda Colley, New York Times "An absorbing, finely written overview, meant for the general reader, of a major figure in the history of natural science."—Frank Stewart, Los Angeles Times "[This book is] the definitive biography of an extraordinary subject."—Robert Taylor, Boston Globe "His skill at narrative and his extensive knowledge of the maritime history . . . give him a definite leg up in telling this . . . story."—Tom Clark, San Francisco Chronicle
