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Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007429363
On Desolation Island, with the known world out of reach, uneasy alliances are sometimes forged...
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393088526
"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.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780006499244
Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin sail to Australia with a hold full of convicts, including a dangerous spy, while the crew is decimated by disease their ship, the "Leopard," is pursued by a Dutch man-of-war
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393088496
"A marvelously full-flavored, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat." —Times Literary Supplement Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen's past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393037045
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.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393344417
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 : HarperCollins UK
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007255832
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.
Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007429349
Whether close to home or far away, there are no safe harbours while Napoleon seeks to dominate the known world.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 039303707X
Jack 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.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393088472
"[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 : HarperCollins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Sea stories, English
ISBN : 0008189285
Sumptuous boxed gift edition of five omnibus hardbacks containing all 21 novels in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Patrick O'Brian's twenty-one-volume Aubrey/Maturin series of nautical adventures set during the Napoleonic War has delighted generations of devoted fans, inspired a blockbuster film, and sold millions of copies in twenty-four languages. These five omnibus volumes, beautifully produced and boxed, contain 7,000 pages of what has often been described as a single, continuous narrative. They are a perfect tribute for such a literary achievement, and a perfect gift for the O'Brian enthusiast.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393063820
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 : Dean King,John B. Hattendorf
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781453238318
This companion for fans of the Napoleonic sea sagas offers maps of the novels’ streets, seas, and coasts, and much more. The tall-masted sailing ships of the early nineteenth century were the technological miracles of their day, allowing their crews to traverse the seas with greater speed than had ever been possible before. Novelist Patrick O’Brian captured the thrill of that era with his characters Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, who visited exotic locales in the service of the Royal Navy. From frigid Dieppe to balmy Batavia, they strolled the ports of the world as casually as most do the streets of their hometown. Packed with maps and illustrations from the greatest age of sail, this volume shows not just where Aubrey and Maturin went, but how they got there. An incomparable reference for devotees of O’Brian’s novels and anyone who has dreamed of climbing aboard a warship, Harbors and High Seas is a captivating portrait of life on the sea, when nothing stood between man and ocean but grit, daring, and a few creaking planks of wood.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 9780007255917
The inspiration for the major new motion picture starring Russell Crowe.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1991-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 039330812X
"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...