- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; First edition (6 April 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002238268
- ISBN-13: 978-0002238267
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.2 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 426,119 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘…full of the energy that comes from a writer having struck a vein… Patrick O’Brian is unquestionably the Homer of the Napoleonic wars.’
James Hamilton- Paterson
‘You are in for the treat of your lives. Thank God for Patrick O’Brian: his genius illuminates the literature of the English language, and lightens the lives of those who read him.’
Kevin Myers, Irish Times
‘To read Patrick O’Brian is to turn the pages of literary history. His series of novels comprises the most significant extended story since Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time.’
Alan Judd, Sunday Times
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'[O'Brian] has shown us that in our literary silver age, authentic gold can still be mined! He is a man whose books you would dare to give to Sterne; whose conversation would have delighted Coleridge. It is his misfortune, but our great good luck, that he is our contemporary and not theirs.' William Waldegrave, The Times 'To read Patrick O'Brian is to turn the pages of literary history. His series of novels comprises the most significant extended story since Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time.' Alan Judd, Sunday Times
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A purple ocean, vast under the sky and devoid of all visible life apart from two minute ships racing across its immensity. Read the first page
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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...you will not be disappointed. The books opens with a sea-chase, but Maturin is quickly embroiled with the tangled politics of Peru under the Spanish Empire, while Jack Aubrey is at sea snapping up every prize he can find. Though the action is gripping as in any of O'Brian's books, as usual along the way there is plently of time to be side-tracked into discussions of the Knipperdolling sect, utopian colonies and the flora and fauna of South America. The plot isn't one of his best, but by now these are more slices of life than stories with a clear beginning middle and end, and as ever it's the characters who keep you reading till the end.
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This is one of the best episodes in the long saga of Stephen and Jack (impossibly long, of course). All the wit and adventure you expect only to a higher more refined degree. It is essential to treat the books as a long novel starting from the beginning 'Master and Commander'. Within this there are high points (which do not imply low points), for me these are; Post Captain, HMS Surprise, Desolation Island, The Surgeons Mate, Treasons Harbour, The Reverse of the Medal and Wine Dark Sea.
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Superlative story telling as in all the Aubry/mauritan novels by O Brian.Anyone who enjoyed "master and Commander"will enjoy. A complete on going story comprising eighteen novels, keep you interested from page One!Am just completing number seventeen, and will be sorry to come to the end of this fabulous story, which abrubtly finished on the death of author Patrick O Brian.
There is a follow up to the series called The unfinshed adventures of Jack Aubry,which is a collection of notes etc pertaining to the next in the series, but we will never know the exact nature of the ending,to this remarkable saga.
There is a follow up to the series called The unfinshed adventures of Jack Aubry,which is a collection of notes etc pertaining to the next in the series, but we will never know the exact nature of the ending,to this remarkable saga.
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Friendship and camarderie
South American adventures for Captain Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin with thrilling experiences on land and at sea. Read more
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I am still only on book 9, but have had all the series bought for me. This volume stands out because one, it does not have the 40th anniversary logo on the front cover and secondly... Read more
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