Book Description
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 : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 20,98 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393037043
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 : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 1991-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393060497
"Jack's assignment: to capture the Indian Ocean islands of Réunion and Mauritius from the French. That campaign forms the narrative thread of this rollicking sea saga. But its substance is more beguiling still." —Elizabeth Peer, Newsweek Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command—until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant, there to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Réunion. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains—Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity pushes his crew to the verge of mutiny.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 13,15 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393307627
During the Napoleonic wars, British naval captain Jack Aubrey, charged with capturing the French islands of Reunion and Mauritius, must first cope with his fellow commanders.
Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 38,61 MB
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007429312
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 : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 21,23 MB
Release : 1990-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393059936
“If Jane Austen had written rousing sea yarns, she would have produced something very close to the prose of Patrick O'Brian.” —Time It’s 1802. The Treaty of Amiens has brought an end to the hostilities between Great Britain and France. Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend, naval surgeon Stephen Maturin, are enjoying the respite in the English countryside, besotted with two beautiful cousins, Sophie Williams and Diana Villiers—until Aubrey loses his fortune and they flee to France to escape his creditors. While in France, Napoleon smashes the Peace of Amiens and war begins anew. Aubrey and Maturin, now finding themselves behind enemy lines, make their way back to England. Maturin is sent to Spain on an intelligence-gathering mission and the now-solvent Aubrey assumes command of a strange warship, pursuing his quarry straight into the mouth of a French-held harbor. Amidst the rollicking adventures at sea and mishaps on land, Aubrey and Maturin’s friendship is tested by their romantic entanglements with the cousins in this brilliant second installment of the epic series.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393037067
Aubrey and Maturin are caught in the outbreak of the War of 1812.
Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,85 MB
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007429363
On Desolation Island, with the known world out of reach, uneasy alliances are sometimes forged...
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2002
Category :
ISBN : 9781842833759
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2004-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393060119
These five volumes are a perfect gift for the serious O'Brian enthusiast. Now, four years after O'Brian's death, his estate has agreed to release the chapters of the novel he was working on when he died. It is both fitting and moving that in these pages we are given a glimpse of Jack Aubrey raising his admiral's flag at last.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,46 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393037104
The inspiration for the major new motion picture starring Russell Crowe.