[PDF] The Wine Dark Sea Vol Book 16 Aubrey Maturin Novels eBook

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,48 MB
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393063690

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The sixteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series, and Patrick O'Brian's first bestseller in the United States. At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean reminds Stephen of Homer's famous description, and portends an underwater volcanic eruption that will create a new island overnight and leave an indelible impression on the reader's imagination. Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen's mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America. Jack will survive a desperate open boat journey and come face to face with his illegitimate black son; Stephen, caught up in the aftermath of his failed coup, will flee for his life into the high, frozen wastes of the Andes; and Patrick O'Brian's brilliantly detailed narrative will reunite them at last in a breathtaking chase through 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 : 280 pages
File Size : 16,36 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 : HarperCollins UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007429428

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There is a fine line between privateer and pirate, between friend and foe.

Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007429436

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To whom does one’s true allegiance lie?

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,21 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 : 334 pages
File Size : 44,29 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
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,96 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 : 392 pages
File Size : 43,41 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 & Company
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,36 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393037067

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Aubrey and Maturin are caught in the outbreak of the War of 1812.

Author : Robert Aickman
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 38,65 MB
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0571316409

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'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' Neil Gaiman For fans of the BBC's Inside Number 9 and The League of Gentlemen Aickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the steady accrual of realistic detail, until the reader realises that the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream. First published in 1988, The Wine-Dark Sea contains eight stories that build towards disturbing yet enigmatic endings, including the classic story 'Your Tiny Hand is Frozen.' 'Of all the authors of uncanny tales, Aickman is the best ever . . . His tales literally haunt me; his plots and his turns of phrase run through my head at the most unlikely moments.' Russell Kirk