The Truelove (Vol. Book 15) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
Title | The Truelove (Vol. Book 15) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 313 |
Release | 2011-12-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 039308857X |
“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.
Clarissa Oakes (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 15)
Title | Clarissa Oakes (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 15) PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick O’Brian |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | 287 |
Release | 2011-12-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 000742941X |
With factions on board, and multiple enemies to contend with, only the most careful navigation will save them.
The Nutmeg of Consolation (Vol. Book 14) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
Title | The Nutmeg of Consolation (Vol. Book 14) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2011-12-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0393088472 |
"[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.
The Wine-Dark Sea (Vol. Book 16) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
Title | The Wine-Dark Sea (Vol. Book 16) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 343 |
Release | 2011-12-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0393063690 |
The sixteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series, and Patrick O'Brian's first bestseller in the United States. At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean reminds Stephen of Homer's famous description, and portends an underwater volcanic eruption that will create a new island overnight and leave an indelible impression on the reader's imagination. Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen's mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America. Jack will survive a desperate open boat journey and come face to face with his illegitimate black son; Stephen, caught up in the aftermath of his failed coup, will flee for his life into the high, frozen wastes of the Andes; and Patrick O'Brian's brilliantly detailed narrative will reunite them at last in a breathtaking chase through stormy seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted.
The Truelove
Title | The Truelove PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 427 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781560545224 |
Dispatched with his ship, the Surprise, to restore order after an attack on a British whaler in Tonga, Captain Aubrey discovers Clarissa Harvill, an escaped female convict, stowed away in the cable-tier. Reprint.
The Hundred Days (Vol. Book 19) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
Title | The Hundred Days (Vol. Book 19) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2011-12-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0393088510 |
"One of the best novelists since Jane Austen....The Hundred Days may be the best installment yet....I give O'Brian's fans joy of it."—Philadelphia Inquirer Napoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead the French armies to triumph at Waterloo. In the Balkans, preparing a thrust northwards into Central Europe to block the Russians and Austrians, a horde of Muslim mercenaries is gathering. They are inclined toward Napoleon because of his conversion to Islam during the Egyptian campaign, but they will not move without a shipment of gold ingots from Sheik Ibn Hazm which, according to British intelligence, is on its way via camel caravan to the coast of North Africa. It is this gold that Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin must at all costs intercept. The fate of Europe hinges on their desperate mission. "The Hundred Days is certain to delight O'Brian's fans, for whom happiness is an unending stream of Aubrey/Maturin books....[It] is a fine novel that stands proudly on the shelf with the others."—Los Angeles Times
Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
Title | Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 2000-09-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0393088502 |
"The old master has us again in the palm of his hand." —Los Angeles Times Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a peacetime navy. When the Surprise is nearly sunk on her way to South America—where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain—the delay occasioned by repairs reaps a harvest of strange consequences. The South American expedition is a desperate affair; and in the end Jack's bold initiative to strike at the vastly superior Spanish fleet precipitates a spectacular naval action that will determine both Chile's fate and his own.