The Wine Dark Sea Vol Book 16 Aubrey Maturin Novels

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : W. W. Norton
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 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

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 : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007429424

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The Wine-Dark Sea (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 16) by Patrick O’Brian Pdf

There is a fine line between privateer and pirate, between friend and foe.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character)
ISBN : OCLC:811060574

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The Wine-dark Sea by Patrick O'Brian Pdf

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007275571

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The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O'Brian Pdf

The fourteenth novel in the classic Aubrey-Maturin series finds Aubrey and Maturin shipwrecked, harassed by pirates and then in the brutal penal colonies of New South Wales.

Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : 262 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : 287 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007429417

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Clarissa Oakes (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 15) by Patrick O’Brian Pdf

With factions on board, and multiple enemies to contend with, only the most careful navigation will save them.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character)
ISBN : OCLC:939667180

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The Wine-dark Sea by Patrick O'Brian Pdf

HMS Surprise heads for the Peruvian coast on a general-purpose patrol. It is wartime circa 1812, so Captain Aubrey captures an American ship and its French master before discharging his main mission: depositing secret agent Dr. Maturin ashore so he can foment revolution against the Spanish.

Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008261351

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The Uncertain Land and Other Poems by Patrick O’Brian Pdf

The first ever collection of poems by the acclaimed author of the Aubrey/Maturin series of Napoleonic naval adventures.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:39000003892762

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Men-of-war by Patrick O'Brian Pdf

Author : Robert Aickman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:734039011

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The Wine-dark Sea by Robert Aickman Pdf

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015060386987

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The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey by Patrick O'Brian Pdf

Includes facsimile of the manuscript.

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Phoenix Pick
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612421407

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Over the Wine-Dark Sea by Harry Turtledove Pdf

Menedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper, the scholarly Sostratos, are sea-traders from the Greek island of Rhodes. Fearless sailors, they will travel any distance to make a profit or to search for rich treasures. *** While they trade in fineries such as wine and silk (and even, to the chagrin of many, peacocks), they live in dangerous times with pirates, thieves and barbarians. As if avoiding death by the hands of these miscreants isn't enough (particularly the barbarians from an obscure town called Rome), they are also caught between the political intrigues of Alexander's former generals.