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  • The Golden Ocean

    by Patrick O'Brian ...
    The first novel Patrick O'Brian ever wrote about the sea, a precursor to the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series.In the year 1740, Commodore (later Admiral) George Anson embarked on a voyage that would become one of the most famous exploits in British naval history. Sailing through poorly charted waters, Anson and his men encountered disaster, disease, and astonishing success. They circumnavigated the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Master and Commander

    by Patrick O'Brian ...
    Series Book 1 - Aubrey/Maturin Novels
    The classic first novel of the epic Aubrey/Maturin series, widely considered “the best historical novels ever written” (Richard Snow, New York Times).Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as commander: the fourteen-gun ship HMS Sophie. Meanwhile—after a heated first encounter that nearly comes to a duel—Aubrey and a brilliant but down-on ... Read more

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  • The Unknown Shore

    by Patrick O'Brian ...
    An immediate precursor to Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series, displaying all the splendid prose and attention to detail that O'Brian's readers expect.Patrick O'Brian's first novel about the sea, The Golden Ocean, took inspiration from Commodore George Anson's fateful circumnavigation of the globe in 1740. In The Unknown Shore, O'Brian returns to this rich source and mines it ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Men-of-War

    Life in Nelson’s Navy

    by Patrick O’Brian ...
    Out of print for many years, this is a brand new edition of the definitive companion to the acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series of novels, written by the author himself.What was daily life in Nelson's navy really like, for everyone from the captain down to the rawest recruit? What did they eat? What songs did they sing? What was the schedule of watches? How were the officers and crew paid, and what ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels

    by Patrick O'Brian ...
    “The best historical novels ever written.”—Richard Snow, New York Times Book ReviewPatrick O’Brian’s twenty-one-volume Aubrey/Maturin series has delighted generations of devoted fans, inspired a blockbuster film, and sold millions of copies in twenty-four languages. These five omnibus volumes, beautifully produced and boxed, contain 7,000 pages of what has often been described as a single, ... Read more

    $201.99 USD

  • The Road to Samarcand

    An Adventure

    by Patrick O'Brian ...
    O'Brian's richly told adventure saga, with its muscular prose, supple dialogue and engaging characters, packs a nice old-school punch." --Publishers WeeklyThis story begins where Patrick O'Brian's devoted fans would want it to, with a sloop in the South China Sea barely surviving a killer typhoon. The time is the 1930s and the protagonist a teenaged American boy whose missionary parents have just ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Nutmeg of Consolation

    by Patrick O'Brian ...
    Series Book 14 - Aubrey/Maturin Novels
    "[The series shows] a joy in language that jumps from every page....You're in for a wonderful voyage."—Cutler Durkee, PeopleShipwrecked 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 ... Read more

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  • The Reverse of the Medal

    by Patrick O'Brian ...
    Series Book 11 - Aubrey/Maturin Novels
    "An overwhelming, outstanding novel...!"—Irish TimesCaptain Jack Aubrey, accomplished at sea but dreadfully vulnerable on land, finds himself ashore after a successful cruise. With his prize money burning a hole in his pocket, he is persuaded by a kind stranger he meets at a tavern to make certain investments. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government ... Read more

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  • Testimonies

    by Patrick O'Brian ...
    "A welcome reissue of O'Brian's moving and very fine first novel."—Kirkus ReviewsDelmore Schwartz, the most influential critic in postwar America, wrote of Patrick O'Brian's first novel Testimonies: "A triumph...drawn forward by lyric eloquence and the story's fascination, [the reader] discovers in the end that he has encountered in a new way the sphinx and the riddle of existence itself." ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Surgeon's Mate

    by Patrick O'Brian ...
    Series Book 7 - Aubrey/Maturin Novels
    "It has been said that this series is some of the finest historical fiction of our time....Aubrey and Maturin have been described as better than Holmes and Watson, the equal of Quixote and Panza....All this is true. And the marvel is, it hardly says enough."—John Balzar, Los Angeles TimesBritish naval officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin, with his great love, Diana Villiers, speed home ... Read more

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  • Post Captain

    by Patrick O'Brian ...
    Series Book 2 - Aubrey/Maturin Novels
    “If Jane Austen had written rousing sea yarns, she would have produced something very close to the prose of Patrick O'Brian.” —TimeIt’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 ... Read more

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  • Richard Temple

    A Novel

    by Patrick O'Brian ...
    "One of the best novelists since Jane Austen."—Philadelphia InquirerThe protagonist of this World War II novel is a prisoner of the German army in France. In order to keep himself sane while denying the charges and absorbing the beatings of his captors, Richard Temple conducts a minute examination—one might almost call it a prosecution—of his own life.Temple escapes from a blighted childhood and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD