Clarissa Oakes

Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 000742941X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clarissa Oakes (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 15) written by Patrick O’Brian and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With factions on board, and multiple enemies to contend with, only the most careful navigation will save them.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : Galaxy
ISBN 13 : 9781405611626
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clarissa Oakes written by Patrick O'Brian and published by Galaxy. This book was released on 2006 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
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Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clarissa Oakes written by Patrick O'Brian and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As he sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies, Jack Aubrey, is unaware that they have a stranger aboard. He is pondering middle age and sexual frustration and totally out of touch with his entire crew. They know about the dangerous stranger who could potentially destroy the ship.

Author : Anthony Gary Brown
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786455669
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Patrick Oäó»Brian Muster Book written by Anthony Gary Brown and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition, this expanded work catalogs 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 and historical. From Master and Commander to 21: The Unfinished Voyage, this book distinguishes the fictional from the factual, making a useful series companion for the casual reader and the most ardent fans. Each of the more than 5,000 alphabetized entries provides a reference to the novels and chapters in which the topic appears. Additionally, biographical notes on the historical figures are included, with sources provided in an annotated bibliography.

Author : Sue Parrill
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786458038
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NelsonÕs Navy in Fiction and Film written by Sue Parrill and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-08-21 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides summaries and analyses of more than 250 novels and nearly 30 films and examines the extent to which they accurately reflect the history, mores and manners of the period—and the extent to which they reveal the ideas and attitudes of their authors and of the periods in which they were written. Particular emphasis is placed on the nature and importance of the war at sea for the British and on the role of famous naval officers such as Nelson, Pellew, Duncan, Smith and Cochrane in the defeat of Napoleon.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393035582
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wine-dark Sea written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outset of an adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a prize through the stormy seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393063712
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Yellow Admiral (Vol. Book 18) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are those already planning this afternoon's trip to the bookstore. Their only reaction is: Thank god, Patrick O'Brian is still writing. To you, I say, not a moment to lose."—John Balzar, Los Angeles Times Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O'Brian's best-selling novel and eighteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Aubrey, now a considerable though impoverished landowner, has dimmed his prospects at the Admiralty by his erratic voting as a Member of Parliament; he is feuding with his neighbor, a man with strong Navy connections who wants to enclose the common land between their estates; he is on even worse terms with his wife, Sophie, whose mother has ferreted out a most damaging trove of old personal letters. Even Jack's exploits at sea turn sour: in the storm waters off Brest he captures a French privateer laden with gold and ivory, but this at the expense of missing a signal and deserting his post. Worst of all, in the spring of 1814, peace breaks out, and this feeds into Jack's private fears for his career. Fortunately, Jack is not left to his own devices. Stephen Maturin returns from a mission in France with the news that the Chileans, to secure their independence, require a navy, and the service of English officers. Jack is savoring this apparent reprieve for his career, as well as Sophie's forgiveness, when he receives an urgent dispatch ordering him to Gibraltar: Napoleon has escaped from Elba.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039308857X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Truelove (Vol. Book 15) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393088480
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Commodore (Vol. Book 17) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeenth novel in the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series of naval tales, which the New York Times Book Review has described as "the best historical novels ever written." Having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, at least initially, but for Stephen it is disastrous: his little daughter appears to be autistic, incapable of speech or contact, while his wife, Diana, unable to bear this situation, has disappeared, her house being looked after by the widowed Clarissa Oakes. Much of The Commodore takes place on land, in sitting rooms and in drafty castles, but the roar of the great guns is never far from our hearing. Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland, where the French are mounting an invasion that will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent. The subtle interweaving of these disparate themes is an achievement of pure storytelling by one of our greatest living novelists.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393088472
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nutmeg of Consolation (Vol. Book 14) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The series shows] a joy in language that jumps from every page....You're in for a wonderful voyage."—Cutler Durkee, People Shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner from the wreck. A vicious attack by Malay pirates is repulsed, but the makeshift vessel burns, and they are truly marooned. Their escape from this predicament is one that only the whimsy and ingenuity of Patrick O'Brian—or Stephen Maturin—could devise. In command now of a new ship, the Nutmeg, Aubrey pursues his interrupted mission. The dreadful penal colony in New South Wales, harrowingly described, is the backdrop to a diplomatic crisis provoked by Maturin's Irish temper, and to a near-fatal encounter with the wildlife of the Australian outback.