The Unknown Shore

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393344424

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An immediate precursor to Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series, displaying all the splendid prose and attention to detail that O'Brian's readers expect. Patrick O'Brian's first novel about the sea, The Golden Ocean, took inspiration from Commodore George Anson's fateful circumnavigation of the globe in 1740. In The Unknown Shore, O'Brian returns to this rich source and mines it brilliantly for another, quite different tale of exploration and adventure. The Wager was parted from Anson's squadron in the fierce storms off Cape Horn and struggled alone up the coast of Chile until she was driven against the rocks and sank. The survivors were soon involved in trouble of every kind. A surplus of rum, a disappearing stock of food, and a hard, detested captain soon drove them into drunkenness, mutiny, and bloodshed. After many months of privation, a handful of men made their way northward under the guidance of a band of Indians, at last finding safety in Valparaiso. This saga of survival is the background to the adventures of two young men aboard the Wager: midshipman Jack Byron and his friend Tobias Barrow, an alarmingly naive surgeon's mate. Patrick O'Brian's many devoted readers will take particular interest in this story, as Jack and Toby form a kind of blueprint for Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, the famed heroes of the great Aubrey/Maturin series to come.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1800
Category : Christian poetry
ISBN : OCLC:32972092

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Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:59432342

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The Unknown Shore. [read by Gordon Griffin]. by Patrick O'Brian Pdf

Author : Catherine Joyce
Publisher : Gloucester, Ont. : Waneva Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0969821115

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The Unknown Shore by Catherine Joyce Pdf

Author : Robert Ruby
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466873414

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Unknown Shore by Robert Ruby Pdf

The true story of how the first English colony in the New World was lost to history, then found again three hundred years later. England's first attempt at colonizing the New World was not at Roanoke or Jamestown, but on a mostly frozen small island in the Canadian Arctic. Queen Elizabeth I called that place Meta Incognita -- the Unknown Shore. Backed by Elizabeth I and her key advisors, including the legendary spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and the shadowy Dr. John Dee, the erstwhile pirate Sir Martin Frobisher set out three times across the North Atlantic, in the process leading what is still the largest Arctic expedition in history. In this forbidding place, Frobisher believed he had discovered vast quantities of gold, the fabled Northwest Passage to the riches of Cathay, and a suitable place for a year-round colony. But Frobisher's dream turned into a nightmare, and his colony was lost to history for nearly three centuries. In this brilliantly conceived dual narrative, Robert Ruby interweaves Frobisher's saga with that of the nineteenth-century American Charles Francis Hall, whose explorations of this same landscape enabled him to hear the oral history of the Inuit, passed down through generations. It was these stories that unlocked the mystery of Frobisher's lost colony. Unknown Shore is the story of two men's travels, and of what these men shared three centuries apart. Ultimately, it is a tale of men driven by greed and ambition, of the hard labor of exploration, of the Inuit and their land, and of great gambles gone wrong.

Author : Catherine Joyce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0969821166

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Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Donald Malcolm,Frank Kelly Freas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Interstellar travel
ISBN : 037372019X

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The Unknown Shore by Donald Malcolm,Frank Kelly Freas Pdf

The crew and passengers on an interstellar vessel must deal with the fact that their ship is crippled, drifting aimlessly outside the galexy.

Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : 433 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007255832

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Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian Pdf

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 : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393063691

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

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 : HarperCollins UK
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007429073

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The Letter of Marque (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 12) by Patrick O’Brian Pdf

Thrown out of the navy for a crime he did not commit, Jack Aubrey has lost everything he held most dear.

Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : Lydia Louise Anna Very
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044993462

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Poems and Prose Writings by Lydia Louise Anna Very Pdf

Author : Lucy Evelina Akerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : American poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:HXDHI5

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Nothing But Leaves and Other Poems by Lucy Evelina Akerman Pdf