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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 10
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
2) The truelove
Author
Series
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 15
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
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"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
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 16
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Author
Series
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 18
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
6) Post captain
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English
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""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
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 17
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Author
Series
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 14
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1992
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.
Author
Series
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 12
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
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Language
English
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This first in the series introduces us to its two main characters: the ambitious and libidinous Jack Aubrey, anxious to have his own ship and make his fortune; and Stephen Maturin, an eccentric surgeon straight from the pages of Dickens.
11) The hundred days
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Series
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 19
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
All of 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 stockyards and salons of Malta are alive with Napoleon's agents and the admiralty's intelligence networks is compromised. Maturin's cunning is the sole bulwark against sabotage...
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Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"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...
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