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Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1996-10
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 039331538X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Follows the adventures of two young seamen who are shipwrecked along the coast of Chile in 1740, and are driven to drink and mutiny by a ruthless captain.
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2011-12-05
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 0393063690
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1996-10-17
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 039334441X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2011-12-05
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0393088510
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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: Catherine Joyce
Publisher: Gloucester, Ont. : Waneva Books
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780969821113
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2011-12-05
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0393063658
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2011-12-19
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0007429363
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On Desolation Island, with the known world out of reach, uneasy alliances are sometimes forged...
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
