The Golden Ocean

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393344417

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The Golden Ocean by Patrick O'Brian Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Sea stories
ISBN : LCCN:57007413

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The Golden Ocean by Patrick O'Brian Pdf

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:59432194

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The Golden Ocean. [read by Gordon Griffin]. by Patrick O'Brian Pdf

Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007466450

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The Unknown Shore by Patrick O’Brian Pdf

The second book Patrick O’Brian wrote about the sea and a brilliant sequel to The Golden Ocean.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393312445

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The Wine-Dark Sea (Vol. Book 16) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) by Patrick O'Brian Pdf

Captain Aubrey and the crew of the Surprise are pursuing an American privateer through the Great South Sea.

Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007429349

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The Ionian Mission (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 8) by Patrick O’Brian Pdf

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 : HarperCollins UK
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 9780007255917

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Treason's Harbour by Patrick O'Brian Pdf

The inspiration for the major new motion picture starring Russell Crowe.

Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007429363

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Desolation Island (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 5) by Patrick O’Brian Pdf

On Desolation Island, with the known world out of reach, uneasy alliances are sometimes forged...

Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007538201

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Patrick O’Brian 3-Book Adventure Collection: The Road to Samarcand, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore by Patrick O’Brian Pdf

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 : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393088489

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The Commodore (Vol. Book 17) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) by Patrick O'Brian Pdf

The seventeenth novel in the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series of naval tales, which the New York Times Book Review has described as "the best historical novels ever written." Having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, at least initially, but for Stephen it is disastrous: his little daughter appears to be autistic, incapable of speech or contact, while his wife, Diana, unable to bear this situation, has disappeared, her house being looked after by the widowed Clarissa Oakes. Much of The Commodore takes place on land, in sitting rooms and in drafty castles, but the roar of the great guns is never far from our hearing. Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland, where the French are mounting an invasion that will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent. The subtle interweaving of these disparate themes is an achievement of pure storytelling by one of our greatest living novelists.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393088502

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Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) by Patrick O'Brian Pdf

"The old master has us again in the palm of his hand."—Los Angeles Times (a Best Book of 1999) 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 : HarperCollins UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007429448

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The Hundred Days (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 19) by Patrick O’Brian Pdf

Napoleon has escaped from Elba – the Hundred Days have begun.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393089165

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Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy by Patrick O'Brian Pdf

A concise overview, richly illustrated, of the historical background to the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin novels. This book is a companion to Patrick O'Brian's sea novels, a straightforward exploration of what daily life in Nelson's navy was really like, for everyone from the captain down to the rawest recruit. What did they eat? What songs did they sing? What was the schedule of watches? How were the officers and crew paid, and what was the division of prize-money? These questions and many more are answered in Patrick O'Brian's elegant narrative, which includes wonderful anecdotal material on the battles and commanders that established Britain's naval supremacy. Line drawings and charts help us to understand the construction and rigging of the great ships, the types and disposition of the guns, and how they were operated in battle. A number of contemporary drawings and cartoons illustrate aspects of naval life from the press gang to the scullery. Finally, a generous selection of full-color paintings render the majesty and the excitement of fleet actions in the age of fighting sail.

Author : Wilbur Smith
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429993210

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Hungry as the Sea by Wilbur Smith Pdf

Wilbur Smith sets his vividly realistic novels on the razor's edge between human courage and nature's wrath. In Hungry As The Sea, this master storyteller takes us to the frigid South Atlantic, where one man fights for his life-- and for redemption. Nicholas Berg is steaming out of Cape Town aboard the salvage tug Warlock. Once Berg ruled an ocean-going empire. Now, his future has come down to a powerful boat and a daring rescue mission. One of his former ships is being lashed against the cliffs of Cape Alarm, surrounded by deadly icebergs and survivors clinging to their boats. Berg has gambled everything on reaching the Golden Adventurer before a competitor and a violent storm-- to win a fortune in salvage fees. But if Nick Berg succeeds, and climbs back into the international shipping game, that's when the real danger will begin... From the power of a relentless ocean to the hunger of men to survive upon her, this is a towering novel of adventure, love and the daring of the human soul.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393088472

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The Nutmeg of Consolation (Vol. Book 14) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) by Patrick O'Brian Pdf

"[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.