Book Description
Capt. Aubrey and his friend Maturin sail to the Indian Ocean to save the British merchant fleet from the French.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 1994-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393037037
Capt. Aubrey and his friend Maturin sail to the Indian Ocean to save the British merchant fleet from the French.
Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 27,4 MB
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007429304
How far will a man go in the name of revenge, honour, love or simple survival?
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 11,82 MB
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393063658
"Fine stuff...[The Letter of Marque] leaves the devotee of naval fiction eager for sequels." —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World Captain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old friend Stephen Maturin, usually cast as a ship’s surgeon to mask his discreet activities on behalf of British Intelligence, has bought for Aubrey his former ship the Surprise to command as a privateer, more politely termed a letter of marque. Together they sail on a desperate mission against the French, which, if successful, may redeem Aubrey from the private hell of his disgrace. A nighttime battle with an unusual climax, a jewel of great value, and Maturin’s fondness for opium make this segment of Patrick O’Brian’s masterful series both original and profoundly exciting.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 1991-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393088464
"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.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007255837
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 : 392 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393037074
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attentions of two privateers soon become menacing. The chase that follows is as thrilling and unexpected as anything O'Brian has written. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 28,22 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 : 328 pages
File Size : 43,52 MB
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393088472
"[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 : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 23,64 MB
Release : 2000-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393088502
"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 : 342 pages
File Size : 16,68 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393037067
Aubrey and Maturin are caught in the outbreak of the War of 1812.