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Author : Robert Charles Dallas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1813
Category : English literature
ISBN : WISC:89099778664
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393088502
"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 : 308 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007429073
Thrown out of the navy for a crime he did not commit, Jack Aubrey has lost everything he held most dear.
Author : Robert Charles Dallas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1813
Category : English literature
ISBN : WISC:89099778680
Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007429448
Napoleon has escaped from Elba – the Hundred Days have begun.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 UK
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Biography
ISBN : OXFORD:555057007
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Ruth Scurr
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681370439
Born on the brink of the modern world, John Aubrey was witness to the great intellectual and political upheavals of the seventeenth century. He knew everyone of note in England—writers, philosophers, mathematicians, doctors, astrologers, lawyers, statesmen—and wrote about them all, leaving behind a great gift to posterity: a compilation of biographical information titled Brief Lives, which in a strikingly modest and radical way invented the art of biography. Aubrey was born in Wiltshire, England, in 1626. The reign of Queen Elizabeth and, earlier, the dissolution of the monasteries were not too far distant in memory during his boyhood. He lived through England’s Civil War, the execution of Charles I, the brief rule of Oliver Cromwell and his son, and the restoration of Charles II. Experiencing these constitutional crises and regime changes, Aubrey was impassioned by the preservation of traces of Ancient Britain, of English monuments, manor houses, monasteries, abbeys, and churches. He was a natural philosopher, an antiquary, a book collector, and a chronicler of the world around him and of the lives of his friends, both men and women. His method of writing was characteristic of his manner: modest, self-deprecating, witty, and concerned above all with the collection of facts that would otherwise be lost to time. John Aubrey, My Own Life is an extraordinary book about the first modern biographer, which reimagines what biography can be. This intimate diary of Aubrey’s days is composed of his own words, collected, collated, and enlarged upon by Ruth Scurr in an act of meticulous scholarship and daring imagination. Scurr’s biography honors and echoes Aubrey’s own innovations in the art of biography. Rather than subject his life to a conventional narrative, Scurr has collected the evidence—the remnants of a life from manuscripts, letters, and books—and arranged it chronologically, modernizing words and spellings, and adding explanations when necessary, with sources provided in the extensive endnotes. Here are Aubrey’s intricate drawings of Stonehenge and the ancient Avebury stones; Aubrey on Charles I’s execution (“On this day, the King was executed. It was bitter cold, so he wore two heavy shirts, lest he should shiver and seem afraid”); and Aubrey on antiquity (“Matters of antiquity are like the light after sunset—clear at first—but by and by crepusculum—the twilight—comes—then total darkness”). From the darkness, Scurr has wrested a vibrant, intimate account of the life of an ingenious man.
Author : Serena Burdick
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780369718266
What if you could write a new ending for yourself? England, 1898. When Evelyn first married the famous novelist William Aubrey, she was dazzled by his brilliance. But their newlywed bliss is brief when William is gripped by writer’s block, and he becomes jealous of Evelyn’s writing talent. When he commits the ultimate betrayal—stealing a draft of her novel and passing it off as his own—Evelyn decides to write her way out of their unhappy marriage. California, 2006. Abigail always wondered about her father, his identity forever lost when her mother unexpectedly died. Or so Abigail thought, until she stumbled upon his photo and a message that her great-great-grandmother was the author Evelyn Aubrey, leading Abigail on a journey to England in search for answers. There, she learns of Evelyn’s shocking disappearance and how London society believed she was murdered. But from what she uncovers about Evelyn, Abigail believes her brilliant great-great-grandmother had another plot up her sleeve. Rich in atmosphere and emotion, The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey tells the story of literary secrets, a family curse and the lengths women will go to take charge of their future.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393312445
Captain Aubrey and the crew of the Surprise are pursuing an American privateer through the Great South Sea.
Author : John Aubrey
Publisher : Random House
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473521735
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RUTH SCURR John Aubrey was a modest man, a self-styled antiquarian and the man who invented modern biography. His ‘lives’ of the prominent figures of his generation and the Elizabethan era, including Shakespeare, Milton and Sir Walter Raleigh, have been plundered by historians for centuries for their frankness and fascinating detail. Collected here are all of Aubrey’s biographical writings, a series of unforgettable portraits of the characters of his day, still more alive and kicking than in any conventional work of history.
Author : John Britton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Antiquarians
ISBN : OXFORD:300149872