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Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
"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 that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams: the ships sent by Napoleon to...
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But a sudden turn of events takes them off on a hazardous mission to the Greek isles, where they are soon involved in fierce and thrilling action.
Author
Series
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aubrey's life on land sours until a fresh conflict--Napoleon's escape from Elba--takes him back to sea.
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin sail to Australia with a hold full of convicts, including a dangerous spy, while the crew is decimated by disease and their ship, the "Leopard," is pursued by a Dutch man-of-war.
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Jack Aubrey, commander of the best-armed frigate in the Royal Navy, leaves the Dutch East Indies to return to England in a dispatch vessel, but the outbreak of the War of 1812 delays his journey and draws him into bloody battle.
14) The truelove
Author
Series
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 15
Master And Commander volume 15
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 15
Master And Commander volume 15
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 15
Language
English
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Description
At French instigation, an ambitious Tongan chief captures a British whaler in the Friendly Isles, and Captain Aubrey is dispatched from Australia to restore order. But a spirited female convict unexpectedly joins Aubrey and Maturin as a stowaway. To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies. Aubrey himself is won over, while only Stephen Maturin fathoms her secrets.
Author
Series
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 20
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
16) Post captain
Author
Series
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
""If Jane Austen had written rousing sea yarns, she would have produced something very close to the prose of Patrick O'Brian." -Time. It's 1802. The Treaty of Amiens has brought an end to the hostilities between Great Britain and France. Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend, naval surgeon Stephen Maturin, are enjoying the respite in the English countryside, besotted with two beautiful cousins, Sophie Williams and Diana Villiers-until Aubrey loses his...
Author
Series
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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...
20) The hundred days
Author
Series
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 19
Language
English
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