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by Patrick O'Brian (Author) "A purple ocean, vast under the sky and devoid of all visible life apart from two minute ships racing across its immensity ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Harper; 40th Anniversary ed edition (1 Sep 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006499317
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006499312
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 5,002 in Books (See Bestsellers 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 'In a highly competitive field it goes straight to the top. A real first-rater.' Mary Renault 'I never enjoyed a novel about the sea more. It is not only that the author describes the handling of a ship of 1800 with an accuracy that is as comprehensible as it is detailed, a remarkable feat in itself. Mr O'Brian's three chief characters are drawn with no less depth of sympathy than the vessels he describes, a rare achievement save in the greatest writers of this genre. It deserves the widest readership.' Irish Times


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Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. This is the sixteenth Aubrey-Maturin maritime novel At the opening of a voyage filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are in pursuit of a privateer sailing under American colours through the Great South Sea. Stephen's objective is to set the revolutionary tinder of South America ablaze to relieve the pressure on the British government which has blundered into war with the young and uncomfortably vigorous United States. The shock and barbarity of hand-to-hand fighting are sharpened by O'Brian's exact sense of period, his eye for landscape and his feel for a ship under sail.

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4.0 out of 5 stars If you've got this far.., 1 Jul 2001
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best, 3 Feb 2008
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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5.0 out of 5 stars the continuing adventures of Capt Aubrey & Dr Maturin, 9 Jul 2009
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only CS Foster is a match for Patrick O'Brian so i am told which i will start to read when i have completed this series of books 21 in all, each book continuing the adventures of Capt Aubrey & Dr Maturin if you like maritime tales you could not choose better in my opinion.
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