Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 39,45 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 : HarperCollins UK
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 20,36 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
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,48 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 : 292 pages
File Size : 14,89 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 : 50,50 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 : 480 pages
File Size : 30,65 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 : 344 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393037098
"The finest writer of sea-stories in the English language."--J. de Courcy Ireland
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,92 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 : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393063828
The tenth installment in the beloved, epic Aubrey/Maturin series and inspiration for the major motion picture starring Russell Crowe. The War of 1812 continues, and Captain Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to wreak havoc with the British whaling trade. Meanwhile, Stephen Maturin has a mission of his own in the world of secret intelligence and comes face to face with the harsh realities for women of the age. Disaster in various guises awaits them in the Great South Sea and in the far reaches of the Pacific—typhoons, castaways, shipwrecks, an ill-fated affair, murder, and criminal insanity—as well as a bold rescue by a crew of seafaring female warriors.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393037050
Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin sail to Australia with a hold full of convicts, including a dangerous spy, while the crew is decimated by disease and their ship, the "Leopard," is pursued by a Dutch man-of-war.
