The Mauritius Command

The Mauritius Command PDF

Author: Patrick O'Brian

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 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.

Master and Commander

Master and Commander PDF

Author: Patrick O'Brian

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 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.

H. M. S. Surprise (Vol. Book 3) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

H. M. S. Surprise (Vol. Book 3) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) PDF

Author: Patrick O'Brian

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1991-05-17

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 0393088464

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"Few, very few books have made my heart thud with excitement. H.M.S. Surprise managed it." —Helen Lucy Burke, Irish Press In H.M.S. Surprise, British naval officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin face near-death and tumultuous romance in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Tasked with ferrying a British ambassador to the Sultan of Kampong, they find themselves on a prolonged voyage aboard a Royal Navy frigate en route to the Malay Peninsula. In this new sphere, Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy who enjoys overwhelming local superiority. But somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the prize that could secure him a marriage to his beloved Sophie and make him rich beyond his wildest dreams: the ships sent by Napoleon to attack the China Fleet.

Post Captain (Vol. Book 2) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

Post Captain (Vol. Book 2) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) PDF

Author: Patrick O'Brian

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1990-08-17

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 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.

The Fortune of War

The Fortune of War PDF

Author: Patrick O'Brian

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780393037067

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Aubrey and Maturin are caught in the outbreak of the War of 1812.

Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) PDF

Author: Patrick O'Brian

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2000-09-17

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 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.

Desolation Island (Vol. Book 5) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

Desolation Island (Vol. Book 5) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) PDF

Author: Patrick O'Brian

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2011-12-05

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0393088529

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"The relationship [between Aubrey and Maturin]...is about the best thing afloat....For Conradian power of description and sheer excitement there is nothing in naval fiction to beat the stern chase as the outgunned Leopard staggers through mountain waves in icy latitudes to escape the Dutch seventy-four." —Stephen Vaughan, Observer Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy—and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. With a Dutch man-of-war to windward, the undermanned, outgunned Leopard sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, where, in mountain seas, the Dutchman closes.