The Truelove (Vol. Book 15) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

The Truelove (Vol. Book 15) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) PDF Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039308857X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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“The Aubrey-Maturin series . . . ebbs and flows with the timeless tide of character and the human heart."—Ken Ringle, Washington Post A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the Sandwich Islands at French instigation, and Captain Jack Aubrey is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away in the cable-tier is an escaped female convict. To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies. Aubrey himself is won over and indeed strongly attracted to this woman who will not speak of her past. But only Aubrey’s friend, Dr. Stephen Maturin, can fathom Harvill’s secrets: her crime, her personality, and a clue identifying a highly-placed English spy in the pay of Napoleon’s intelligence service. In a thrilling finale, Patrick O’Brian delivers all the excitement his many readers expect: Aubrey and the crew of the Surprise impose a brutal pax Britannica upon the islanders in a pitched battle against a band of headhunting cannibals.

The Truelove (Vol. Book 15) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

The Truelove (Vol. Book 15) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) PDF Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039308857X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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Book Description
“The Aubrey-Maturin series . . . ebbs and flows with the timeless tide of character and the human heart."—Ken Ringle, Washington Post A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the Sandwich Islands at French instigation, and Captain Jack Aubrey is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away in the cable-tier is an escaped female convict. To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies. Aubrey himself is won over and indeed strongly attracted to this woman who will not speak of her past. But only Aubrey’s friend, Dr. Stephen Maturin, can fathom Harvill’s secrets: her crime, her personality, and a clue identifying a highly-placed English spy in the pay of Napoleon’s intelligence service. In a thrilling finale, Patrick O’Brian delivers all the excitement his many readers expect: Aubrey and the crew of the Surprise impose a brutal pax Britannica upon the islanders in a pitched battle against a band of headhunting cannibals.

Clarissa Oakes

Clarissa Oakes PDF Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: HarperPerennial
ISBN: 9780007275588
Category : Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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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.

The Wine-Dark Sea (Vol. Book 16) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

The Wine-Dark Sea (Vol. Book 16) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) PDF Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393063690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343

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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.

The Nutmeg of Consolation

The Nutmeg of Consolation PDF Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007275579
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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The fourteenth novel in the classic Aubrey-Maturin series finds Aubrey and Maturin shipwrecked, harassed by pirates and then in the brutal penal colonies of New South Wales.

The Surgeon's Mate

The Surgeon's Mate PDF Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393037074
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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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.

The Fortune of War

The Fortune of War PDF Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393037067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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

The Letter of Marque (Vol. Book 12) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

The Letter of Marque (Vol. Book 12) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) PDF Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393063658
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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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.

The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels

The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels PDF Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393060119
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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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.

Master and Commander

Master and Commander PDF Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007255837
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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Book Description
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.

Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) PDF Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393088502
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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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.