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Patrick O'Brian was well into his seventies when the world fell in love with his greatest creation: the maritime adventures of Royal Navy Captain Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin. But despite his fame, little detail was available about the life of the reclusive author, whose mysterious past King uncovers in this groundbreaking biography. King traces O'Brian's personal history, beginning as a London-born Protestant named Richard Patrick Russ, to his tortured relationship with his first wife and child, to his emergence from World War II with the entirely new identity under which he would publish twenty volumes in the Aubrey--Maturin series. What King unearths is a life no less thrilling than the seafaring world of O'Brian's imagination. Rating: (not yet rated) Subjects • • • • More like this •. Patrick O'Brian was well into his seventies when the world fell in love with his greatest creation: the maritime adventures of Royal Navy Captain Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin.

But despite his fame, little detail was available about the life of the reclusive author, whose mysterious past King uncovers in this groundbreaking biography. King traces O'Brian's personal history, beginning as a London-born Protestant named Richard Patrick Russ, to his tortured relationship with his first wife and child, to his emergence from World War II with the entirely new identity under which he would publish twenty volumes in the Aubrey--Maturin series. What King unearths is a life no less thrilling than the seafaring world of O'Brian's imagination.

Author by: Patrick O'Brian Language: en Publisher by: W. Norton & Company Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 24 Total Download: 116 File Size: 47,9 Mb Description: 'O'Brian is one author who can put a spark of character into the sawdust of time, and The Ionian Mission is another rattling good yarn.'

—Stephen Vaughan, The Observer Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain commanding a line-of-battle ship in the Royal Navy's blockade of Toulon, and this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing frigate actions of his early days. A sudden turn of events takes him and Stephen off on a hazardous mission to the Greek Islands, where all his old skills of seamanship and his proverbial luck when fighting against odds come triumphantly into their own. Author by: Patrick O'Brian Language: en Publisher by: W.

Norton & Company Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 57 Total Download: 822 File Size: 49,6 Mb Description: The beginning of the sweeping Aubrey-Maturin series. 'The best sea story I have ever read.' —Sir Francis Chichester This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle. Author by: Patrick O'Brian Language: en Publisher by: W. Norton & Company Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 32 Total Download: 241 File Size: 55,6 Mb Description: The fifteenth installment in Patrick O'Brian's widely claimed series of Aubrey/Maturin novels is in equal parts mystery, adventure, and psychological drama.