Patrick O'Brian
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by the Wager disaster, The Unknown Shore is an immediate precursor to Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series that displays all the splendid prose and attention to detail that delight O'Brian's millions of fans.
Patrick O'Brian's first novel about the sea, The Golden Ocean, took inspiration from Commodore George Anson's fateful circumnavigation of the globe in 1740. In The Unknown Shore, O'Brian returns to...Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
To the delight of millions of Patrick O'Brian fans, here is the final, partial installment of the Aubrey-Maturin series, for the first time in paperback.
Blue at the Mizzen (novel #20) ended with Jack Aubrey getting the news, in Chile, of his elevation to flag rank: Rear Admiral of the Blue Squadron, with orders to sail to the South Africa station. The next novel, unfinished and untitled at the time of the author's death,
...Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Blue at the Mizzen (novel #20) ended with Jack Aubrey getting the news, in Chile, of his elevation to flag rank: Rear Admiral of the Blue Squadron, with orders to sail to the South Africa station. The next novel, unfinished and untitled at the time of the author's death, would have been the chronicle of that mission, and much else besides. The three chapters left on O'Brian's desk are presented here both in printed version-including his corrections...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
"The relationship {between Aubrey and Maturin}...is about the best thing afloat....For Conradian power of description and sheer excitement there is nothing in naval fiction to beat the stern chase as the outgunned Leopard staggers through mountain waves in icy latitudes to escape the Dutch seventy-four." -Stephen Vaughan, Observer Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
Stephen Maturin's days in British intelligence have gotten him into a whole mess of trouble in The Surgeon's Mate, seventh book in Patrick O'Brian's 'Aubrey-Maturin' adventure series. 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 attention of two privateers...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
"The best historical novels ever written." -Richard Snow, New York Times Book Review Third in the series of Aubrey-Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy enjoying overwhelming local superiority. But somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the prize...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
La decimoséptima novela de la amplia serie de cuentos navales aubrey-maturin, que el New York Times Book Review ha descrito como "las mejores novelas históricas jamás escritas". Después de haber sobrevivido a una larga y desesperada aventura en el Gran Mar del Sur, el Capitán Jack Aubrey y Stephen Maturin regresan a Inglaterra a circunstancias muy diferentes. Para Jack es un feliz regreso a casa, al menos inicialmente, pero para Esteban es desastroso:...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionage-the province of his friend Stephen Maturin. Is Aubrey's humiliation and the threatened ruin of his career a deliberate plot? This dark tale is a fitting backdrop to the brilliant characterization and sparkling dialogue which O'Brian's readers have come to expect.
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
The beginning of the sweeping Aubrey-Maturin series.
This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck,...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen's past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Blue at the Mizzen (novel #20) ended with Jack Aubrey getting the news, in Chile, of his elevation to flag rank: Rear Admiral of the Blue Squadron, with orders to sail to the South Africa station. The next novel, unfinished and untitled at the time of the author's death, would have been the chronicle of that mission, and much else besides. The three chapters left on O'Brian's desk are presented here both in printed version-including his corrections...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
Jack Aubrey recibe órdenes de interceptar a los barcos estadounidenses que están acosando a los balleneros británicos en aguas americanas, lo que supone una doble misión: llevar a cabo una investigación al respecto y poner fin al problema mediante los métodos que considere más oportunos. Es probablemente, la mejor novela de la serie.
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
El capitán Jack Aubrey, un oficial brillante y experimentado, ha sido eliminado de la lista de post-capitanes por un crimen que no cometió. Su viejo amigo Stephen Maturin, generalmente elegido como cirujano de un barco para enmascarar sus actividades discretas en nombre de la Inteligencia Británica, ha comprado para Aubrey su antigua nave la Sorpresa para comandar como corsaria, más educadamente llamado una carta de marca. Juntos navegan en una...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
Personas Naufragó en una remota isla en las Indias Orientales Holandesas, el capitán Aubrey, el cirujano y agente de inteligencia secreto Stephen Maturin, y la tripulación de la diane moda una goleta del naufragio. Un ataque vicioso de piratas malayos es rechazado, pero la nave improvisada arde, y son verdaderamente abandonados. Su huida de este predicamento es una que sólo el capricho y el ingenio de Patrick O'Brian -o Stephen Maturin- podrían...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
All Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the center stage for the dockyards and salons of Malta are alive with Napoleon's agents, and the admiralty's intelligence network is compromised. Maturin's cunning is the sole bulwark against sabotage...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
La emoción continúa en Post Captain, la segunda entrega de la aclamada serie Aubrey-Maturin de Patrick O'Brian, después de Master and Commander. En 1803, Napoleón destroza la Paz de Amiens, y el capitán Jack Aubrey, refugiándose en Francia de sus acreedores, está internado. Escapa de Francia, de la prisión del deudor, y de un posible motín y persigue su cantera directamente en la desembocadura de un puerto controlado por Francia. Las luchas...
Author
Language
English
Description
For those who dare, things often go wrong under the sea. Such tragedies, spurred by the booming interest in the Titanic and the Andrea Doria, have been the focus of tremendous literature form the world's finest authors. Deep Blue offers compelling tales of shipwrecks and salvage, submarine adventure and free diving, nautical survival and cannibalism.
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
Jack Aubrey y Stephen Maturin, veteranos ahora de muchas batallas, regresan en esta novela a los mares donde navegaron por primera vez como compañeros de barco. Pero Jack es ahora un capitán de alto rango que comanda un barco de línea de batalla en el bloqueo de toulon de la Royal Navy, y esta es una guerra más larga, más dura y fría que las acciones de fragata de sus primeros días. Un giro repentino de los acontecimientos lo lleva a él y...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
Escapado de Elba, persigue a sus enemigos por Toda Europa como un fénix vengativo. Si puede acorralar a los británicos y prusianos antes de que lleguen sus aliados rusos y austriacos, su genio llevará a los ejércitos franceses a triunfar en Waterloo. En los Balcanes, preparando un empuje hacia el norte hacia Europa Central para bloquear a los rusos y austríacos, se está reuniendo una horda de mercenarios musulmanes. Están inclinados hacia Napoleón...