In the seventh volume in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series, Stephen Maturin is hunted through the high seas as his intelligence activities in America become known to the French. Jack Aubrey is also hunted by an amorous woman with whom he had a brief liaison. And the elusive Diana Villiers at last agrees to marry Stephen.
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are being re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets to coincide with a new film based on the adventures and to introduce these modern classics to a new generation. Master and ...
In the second volume of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series, Jack Aubrey escapes from a French prison and returns to England to face his creditors. He meets Sophia Williams--destined to become his wife--while Stephen Maturin becomes involved with the faithless Diana Villiers. A near-mutiny and a particularly bloody encounter with a French ship ...
In Patrick O'Brian's novel set during the Napoleonic Wars, Jack Aubrey sails around Cape Horn to prevent an American ship from interfering in the British whaling trade, while his sidekick Stephen Maturin calls into play all his intelligence sources.
The fourth volume in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series. Now married to the beautiful Sophie, Captain Jack Aubrey must cope with two extremely difficult colleagues--one a dissolute rake, the other a brutal martinet--on a mission to take the island of Mauritius from the French.
The sixth volume in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series. Stephen Maturin and Jack Aubrey find themselves imprisoned in Boston at the outbreak of the War of 1812, and Diana Villiers turns up in the same place. Stephen's espionage skills are crucial as they find a way back home.
The third volume in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series. On the Indian subcontinent, Captain Jack Aubrey and his ship, the "Surprise," fight for an unusually lavish treasure carried by a fleet of French ships. Meanwhile, the romance between the ship's surgeon, Stephen Maturin, and the impossible Diana Villiers takes an unfortunate turn.
The fifth volume in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series. In one of the most exciting novels in this series, Captain Jack Aubrey and his ship's physician, Stephen Maturin, sail to Australia with a shipload of dangerous convicts and a beautiful spy, Louisa Wogan. A mysterious disease strikes, taking the lives of many of the crew, and the ...
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are being re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets to coincide with a new film based on the adventures, and to introduce these modern classics to a new generation. Jack Aubrey's ...
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are to be re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets. At the opening of a voyage filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are in pursuit of a privateer sailing under ...
The 18th voyage for O'Brian's fascinating duo, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin. Here, as peace is breaking out in Europe, Jack is engaged in legal wrangling with slavers and landowners, and has found his nemesis in a Naval officer who is trying to wreck his career. Stephen is meeting quietly with Chilean rebels who are interested in hiring Jack to ...
The action ranges from the long and frustrating blockage of the Toulon harbor to a dangerous mission to Greece. Captain Jack Aubrey's seamanship is sorely tested, but his friendship with Stephen Maturin--whose ramblings in natural history form an entertaining part of this novel--remains firm. It is further cemented when Stephen saves Jack's life ...
Stripped of his rank and without a ship, Jack Aubrey assumes command of a privateer, hoping to redeem himself and win reinstatement in the British Navy. With his crony, ship's physician Stephen Maturin, he sets out on what proves to be a harrowing adventure in his old ship, the "Surprise," which Stephen has purchased with his newly inherited ...
The 14th novel in O'Brian's highly acclaimed series, the Aubrey/Maturin novels, about a captain in the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon during the Napoleonic Wars. In this installment, Jack and Stephen must deal with not only a tribe of cannibals but a mysterious and disruptive female convict on board ship.
In response to the interest of millions of O'Brian fans, here is the final, partial installment of the Aubrey/Maturin series--the proposed follow-up to "Blue at the Mizzen." These are the three chapters left on O'Brian's desk at the time of his death.
Because of a convoluted scheme inaugurated by French intelligence, Jack Aubrey finds himself accused of stock manipulation and sentenced not only to prison and the pillory, but stripped of his rank and command. His friend, Stephen Maturin, sticks by him, and Stephen's own personal life is complicated by a misunderstanding between himself and Diana ...
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are being re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets to coincide with a new film based on the adventures and to introduce these modern classics to a new generation. Uniquely among ...
The 13th novel in O'Brian's revered series about the English Navy during the Napoleonic wars finds Aubrey and Maturin on a mission to the South China Seas.
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.
The fifteenth Aubrey-Maturin novel in which Jack finds himself re-united with the Surprise, but dangerously out of touch with his crew All the elements that have made Patrick O'Brian's astonishing series one of the most highly praised works in contemporary fiction are here in Clarissa Oakes -- the narrative grip, the impeccable ear for dialogue, ...
A geographical guide to the popular Aubrey-Maturin novels of Patrick O'Brian. Each novel is covered in its own chapter, with maps identifying routes, ports of call, battles, crossings, and storms, and including a comprehensive index, land maps, period maps, and illustrations.
The highly successful, one-of-a-kind atlas to the beloved novels of Patrick O'Brian is back in a revised and expanded edition. Since the release of the first edition, two new Aubrey-Maturin novels have appeared -- The Yellow Admiral and The Hundred Days -- and new chapters are devoted to each of them. Author Dean King and a team of cartographers ...
In response to the interest of millions of O'Brian fans, here is the final, partial installment of the Aubrey/Maturin series--the proposed follow-up to "Blue at the Mizzen." These are the three chapters left on O'Brian's desk at the time of his death.
Now in its second edition, this expanded work catalogues every person, animal, ship and cannon mentioned by name in the 21 books of Patrick O'Brian's series on the maritime adventures of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin. The novels, renowned for their "far-ranging web of wit and allusion," teem with thousands of characters and ships, both imaginary ...
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