Author: Charles ReadePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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The Wandering Heir
Author: Charles ReadeHard Cash
Author: Charles ReadeGriffith Gaunt
Author: Charles ReadeFoul Play
Author: Charles ReadeThe Letter of Marque (Vol. Book 12) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
Author: Patrick O'BrianPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393063658
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
"Fine stuff...[The Letter of Marque] leaves the devotee of naval fiction eager for sequels." —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World Captain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old friend Stephen Maturin, usually cast as a ship’s surgeon to mask his discreet activities on behalf of British Intelligence, has bought for Aubrey his former ship the Surprise to command as a privateer, more politely termed a letter of marque. Together they sail on a desperate mission against the French, which, if successful, may redeem Aubrey from the private hell of his disgrace. A nighttime battle with an unusual climax, a jewel of great value, and Maturin’s fondness for opium make this segment of Patrick O’Brian’s masterful series both original and profoundly exciting.
The Cabinet of Irish Literature
Author: Charles Anderson ReadPublisher:
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Category : Irish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
Author: Patrick O'BrianPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393088502
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"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.
Treason's Harbour
Author: Patrick O'BrianPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393037098
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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"The finest writer of sea-stories in the English language."--J. de Courcy Ireland
Put yourself in his place
Author: Charles ReadeWORKS OF CHARLES READE,
Author: CHARLES. READEPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033752616
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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