Author : Richard O'Neill
Publisher : Running PressBook Pub
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0762415401
From the moment that "Master and Commander, " the first of O'Brian's 20 novels about the 19th century British Royal Navy was published, critics hailed his work as a masterpiece. This first full-color illustrated companion to the series is timed to benefit from the release of the Twentieth-Century Fox film adaptation starring Russell Crowe.
Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,23 MB
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008356009
Out of print for many years, this is a brand new edition of the definitive companion to the acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series of novels, written by the author himself.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 32,46 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 : 334 pages
File Size : 42,69 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 : 292 pages
File Size : 40,1 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 : 348 pages
File Size : 37,44 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 : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,58 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393037067
Aubrey and Maturin are caught in the outbreak of the War of 1812.
Author : Chotzinoff Anne Grossman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 2000-10-03
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780393320947
In this cookbook companion to Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin novels, readers get authentic and practical recipes for dishes that complement the pair's travels--such as Burgoo, Drowned Baby, Sea-Pie, Jam Roly-Poly, and Sucking pig.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 38,72 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 : 344 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393037098
"The finest writer of sea-stories in the English language."--J. de Courcy Ireland
