[PDF] The Letter Of Marque Vol Book 12 Aubrey Maturin Novels eBook

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393063658

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"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 : 328 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393088472

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"[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 : 348 pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393063828

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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 : 280 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393035582

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At the outset of an adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a prize through the stormy seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,69 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393037098

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"The finest writer of sea-stories in the English language."--J. de Courcy Ireland

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : HarperPerennial
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 12,9 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 9780007275588

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As Captain Jack Aubrey sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies he soon becomes aware that he is out of touch with the mood of the ship. What he doesn't know is that there is a potentially dangerous stranger aboard ship.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2000-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393088502

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"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 : 392 pages
File Size : 41,10 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393037074

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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
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release : 2004-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393060119

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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 : 368 pages
File Size : 43,74 MB
Release : 1991-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393060497

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"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.