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Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : HarperCollins UK
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007429318
Can Captain Jack Aubrey and his crew defy the odds, and outmanoeuvre the French, to take two small but vital islands in the Indian Ocean?
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015046443753
Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command, until his friend an occassional intelligence agent Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope.
Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : HarperCollins UK
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : DuPre Jones,Edward Gorey
Publisher : Pomegranate Communications
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0764966057
In this fairly far-fetched fairy tale, a plucky little girl named Gremlin and her brother, Zeppelin, leave their childhood home - a woodsman's cottage, of course - in the kingdom of Etaoin and set out to see the world. Clambering through an enchanted forest and navigating pirate-infested seas en route to the Royal Palace (where a drastic change of circumstance awaits), they encounter a host of quirky characters beyond anything the Brothers Grimm ever imagined. Yes, there are knights (good and evil), a giant and the requisite fairy godmother. But there's also an inn full of doom-and-gloom beatniks, a peevish wombat, a poet whose limericks probe the meaning of life and a flightless parrot who spouts Latin. Anything but a fainthearted waif, Gremlin takes surprises and setbacks in stride, retaining her innocence and good humour all the while. DuPre Jones's witty, clever and decidedly grown-up text full of puns, double entendres, literary references and sly characterisations of human foibles - coupled with pen-and-ink illustrations by renowned artist Edward Gorey - makes The Adventures of Gremlin a devilishly fun read for adults, as well as a welcome update to the Gorey illustration canon.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Maturin, Stephen (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0007787464
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 : 40,5 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 : HarperCollins UK
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007429295
Whether on land or at sea, can Jack Aubrey stay one step ahead of his enemies?
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007255887
Jack Aubrey, commander of the best-armed frigate in the Royal Navy, leaves the Dutch East Indies to return to England in a dispatch vessel, but the outbreak of the War of 1812 delays his journey and draws him into bloody battle.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393088489
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 : 352 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393088502
"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 & Company
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1991-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393088465
"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.