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Download or read book Patrick O'Brian written by Dean King and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA revealing and insightful look at one of the modern world’s most acclaimed historical novelists/div DIVPatrick 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./divDIV /divDIVKing 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./div
Book Synopsis The Patrick Oäó»Brian Muster Book by : Anthony Gary Brown
Download or read book The Patrick Oäó»Brian Muster Book written by Anthony Gary Brown and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition, this expanded work catalogs every person, animal, ship and cannon mentioned by name in the 21 books of Patrick O’Brian’s series on the maritime adventures of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin. The novels, renowned for their “far-ranging web of wit and allusion,” teem with thousands of characters and ships, both imaginary and historical. From Master and Commander to 21: The Unfinished Voyage, this book distinguishes the fictional from the factual, making a useful series companion for the casual reader and the most ardent fans. Each of the more than 5,000 alphabetized entries provides a reference to the novels and chapters in which the topic appears. Additionally, biographical notes on the historical figures are included, with sources provided in an annotated bibliography.
Book Synopsis The World of Patrick O'Brian by : Dean King
Download or read book The World of Patrick O'Brian written by Dean King and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 1669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four volumes of history and biography for fans of the Aubrey-Maturin novels, with lore on the Royal Navy and much more. What is a sandgrouse, and where does it live? What are the medical properties of lignum vitae, and how did Stephen Maturin use it to repair his viola? Who is Adm. Lord Keith, and why is his wife so friendly with Capt. Jack Aubrey? More than any other contemporary author, Patrick O’Brian knew the past. His twenty Aubrey–Maturin novels, beginning with Master and Commander (1969), are distinguished by deep characterization, heart-stopping naval combat, and an attention to detail that enriches and enlivens his stories. In the revised edition of A Sea of Words, Dean King and his collaborators dive into Jack Aubrey’s world. In the revised edition of Harbors and High Seas, King details not just where Aubrey and Maturin went, but how they got there. Packed with maps and illustrations from the greatest age of sail, it is an incomparable reference for devotees of O’Brian’s novels and anyone who has dreamed of climbing aboard a warship, as well as a captivating portrait of life on the sea during a time when nothing stood between man and ocean but grit, daring, and a few creaking planks of wood. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British navy was the mightiest instrument of war the world had ever known. The Royal Navy patrolled the seas from India to the Caribbean, connecting an empire with footholds in every corner of the earth. Such a massive navy required the service of more than 100,000 men—from officers to deckhands to surgeons. Their stories are collected in Every Man Will Do His Duty. The inspiration for the bestselling novels of Patrick O’Brian and C. S. Forester, these twenty-two memoirs and diaries, edited by Dean King, provide a true portrait of life aboard British warships during one of the most significant eras of world history. Patrick O’Brian was well into his seventies when the world fell in love with his greatest creation: the maritime adventures of Royal Navy Capt. 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 from his beginnings 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. Patrick O’Brian: A Life Revealed is a penetrating and insightful examination of one of the modern world’s most acclaimed historical novelists.
Book Synopsis Patrick O'Brian's Bodies at Sea by : Michael Leigh Sinowitz
Download or read book Patrick O'Brian's Bodies at Sea written by Michael Leigh Sinowitz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the complex roles that bodies--both literally and figuratively--play in the 21 volume Aubrey-Maturin series reveals much about the novels' many meditations on mind and body. Beginning with a consideration of genre norms and the bodies of the novels' main characters, the book's focus shifts to the ways the series offers interconnections between the human body and history. More literal considerations of the body examine O'Brian's depictions of drug use, particularly the opium addiction that afflicts Stephen Maturin, and human sexuality in its many guises. The work then focuses on Desolation Island, the fifth novel in the series, in light of the discussions above but also in terms of political and psychological tropes that draw upon the relationship of mind and body. Questions are examined about the relationship of reader to author, and what sustains such a long narrative and what continues to bring a reader back again and again.
Book Synopsis Papillon ; Translated by Patrick O'Brian by : Henri Charrière
Download or read book Papillon ; Translated by Patrick O'Brian written by Henri Charrière and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1970 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Patrick O'Brian's Navy by : Richard O'Neill
Download or read book Patrick O'Brian's Navy written by Richard O'Neill and published by Running PressBook Pub. This book was released on 2003 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moment that "Master and Commander, " the first of O'Brian's 20 novels about the 19th century British Royal Navy was published, critics hailed his work as a masterpiece. This first full-color illustrated companion to the series is timed to benefit from the release of the Twentieth-Century Fox film adaptation starring Russell Crowe.
Download or read book Patrick O'Brian written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Master and Commander by : Patrick O'Brian
Download or read book Master and Commander written by Patrick O'Brian and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are being re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets to coincide with a new film based on the adventures and to introduce these modern classics to a new generation. Master and Commander is the first of Patrick O'Brian's now famous Aubrey/Maturin novels, regarded by many as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. It establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ship's surgeon and an intelligence agent. It contains all the action and excitement which could possibly be hoped for in a historical novel, but it also displays the qualities which have put O'Brian far ahead of any of his competitors: his depiction of the detail of life aboard a Nelsonic man-of-war, of weapons, food, conversation and ambience, of the landscape and of the sea. O'Brian's portrayal of each of these is faultless and the sense of period throughout is acute. His power of characterisation is above all masterly. This brilliant historical novel marked the début of a writer who grew into one of our greatest novelists ever, the author of what Alan Judd, writing in the Sunday Times, has described as 'the most significant extended story since Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time'.
Book Synopsis The Complete Short Stories by : Patrick O’Brian
Download or read book The Complete Short Stories written by Patrick O’Brian and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Short Stories is the most comprehensive collection of O’Brian’s short fiction ever published. An essential volume, certain to enchant O’Brian admirers as well as readers who are fortunate enough to be journeying with him for the very first time.
Book Synopsis Master and Commander (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 1) by : Patrick O’Brian
Download or read book Master and Commander (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 1) written by Patrick O’Brian and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the first of Patrick O’Brian’s much lauded Aubrey–Maturin novels, discover a vibrant world conjured by a master storyteller, rich with detail and character.
Book Synopsis Post Captain (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 2) by : Patrick O’Brian
Download or read book Post Captain (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 2) written by Patrick O’Brian and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether on land or at sea, can Jack Aubrey stay one step ahead of his enemies?
Book Synopsis Clarissa Oakes (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 15) by : Patrick O’Brian
Download or read book Clarissa Oakes (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 15) written by Patrick O’Brian and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With factions on board, and multiple enemies to contend with, only the most careful navigation will save them.
Download or read book The Catalans written by Patrick O’Brian and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set amongst the rolling vineyards and gentle courtyards of a small seaside village in Catalonia, Patrick O'Brian's second novel is a poignant story of tumultuous love, complex faith and one man's desperate bid to reclaim his humanity.
Book Synopsis Patrick O'Brian by : Nikolai Tolstoy
Download or read book Patrick O'Brian written by Nikolai Tolstoy and published by Century. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 21) by : Patrick O’Brian
Download or read book The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 21) written by Patrick O’Brian and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventure continues . . .
Book Synopsis Picasso: A Biography by : Patrick O’Brian
Download or read book Picasso: A Biography written by Patrick O’Brian and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly, passionate and brilliantly-written biography of Pablo Picasso by Patrick O’Brian, the famous author of the much-loved Aubrey-Maturin series, reissued in a stunning new cover.
Download or read book A Sea of Words written by Dean King and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1997 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 50,000 devoted Patrick O'Brian fans have made A SEA OF WORDS their companion book of choice. In response to passionate reader demand, Dean King adds hundreds of new definitions and new illustrations and background essays referenced in O'Brian's clipper ship adventure sagas, including two new novels.
