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Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 000725590X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPatrick 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
Published: 2011-12-05
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0393088537
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"O'Brian is one author who can put a spark of character into the sawdust of time, and The Ionian Mission is another rattling good yarn." —Stephen Vaughan, The Observer Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain commanding a line-of-battle ship in the Royal Navy's blockade of Toulon, and this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing frigate actions of his early days. A sudden turn of events takes him and Stephen off on a hazardous mission to the Greek Islands, where all his old skills of seamanship and his proverbial luck when fighting against odds come triumphantly into their own.
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780393037098
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The finest writer of sea-stories in the English language."--J. de Courcy Ireland
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2011-12-05
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 0393063828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780393037067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAubrey and Maturin are caught in the outbreak of the War of 1812.
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2011-12-05
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 0393063690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2000-09-17
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0393088502
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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
Published: 2004-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780393060119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese five volumes are a perfect gift for the serious O'Brian enthusiast. Now, four years after O'Brian's death, his estate has agreed to release the chapters of the novel he was working on when he died. It is both fitting and moving that in these pages we are given a glimpse of Jack Aubrey raising his admiral's flag at last.
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780393037043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStephen 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
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780393037074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attentions of two privateers soon become menacing. The chase that follows is as thrilling and unexpected as anything O'Brian has written. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
