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Book Synopsis Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy by : Patrick O'Brian
Download or read book Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995-11-17 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to O'Brian's sea novels, this concise, historical overview offers a straightforward explanation of what daily life was like in Admiral Horatio Nelson's navy. Line drawings and charts help readers to understand the construction and rigging of the great ships and the types and disposition of the guns. Contemporary illustrations and cartoons depict various aspects of naval life, from the press gang to the scullery.
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.
Book Synopsis Jack Aubrey Commands by : Brian Lavery
Download or read book Jack Aubrey Commands written by Brian Lavery and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2005-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Jack Aubrey Commands, Brian Lavery relates the naval fiction of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester to the real world inhabited by famous Royal Navy heroes such as Lord Nelson, Sir Sidney Smith and Thomas Cochrane. It draws on the experiences and activities of men such as Frederick Marryat, the founder of naval fiction, the Austen brothers whose sister Jane created our most intimate picture of shore life in the period, and Nelson's chaplain, Alexander Scott, who also served as a part-time spy. All these individuals and others provided inspiration for Patrick O'Brian's character of Jack Aubrey. The historical facts behind the great works of naval fiction are fully explored while the text fully contextualises a number of key episodes and characters as well as the minutiae of naval life in the era of Nelson as it is put forward in these enduring sea stories."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Patrick O'Brian by : Arthur E. Cunningham
Download or read book Patrick O'Brian written by Arthur E. Cunningham and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in Great Britain under the title Patrick O'Brian: Critical appreciations and a bibliography"--T.p. verso.
Book Synopsis Lobscouse and Spotted Dog by : Chotzinoff Anne Grossman
Download or read book Lobscouse and Spotted Dog written by Chotzinoff Anne Grossman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-10-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this cookbook companion to Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin novels, readers get authentic and practical recipes for dishes that complement the pair's travels--such as Burgoo, Drowned Baby, Sea-Pie, Jam Roly-Poly, and Sucking pig.
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 Patrick O'Brian: a Very Private Life by : Nikolai Tolstoy
Download or read book Patrick O'Brian: a Very Private Life written by Nikolai Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate portrait of the reclusive and brilliant author, written by his step-son Nikolai Tolstoy. The English novelist Patrick O'Brian is much admired for his best-selling Aubrey-Maturin series of sea novels - the unexpected success of the series secured his place in literary history. Far less is known about O'Brian's personal life, largely because he preferred to keep it that way. In A Very Private Life, O'Brian's step-son Nikolai Tolstoy draws upon his step-father's archives and papers to faithfully capture a life dedicated to the written word. This biography covers the latter part of O'Brian's life, from the moment of his arrival at Collioure in the south of France in 1949, where he wrote all his major works, to his death in 2000. Throughout his career, O'Brian's writing was supplemented by his translation work, which saw him translate the likes of Simone de Beauvoir and Henri Charriere. Tolstoy also captures O'Brian as he conducted research for the biography of his close friend and neighbour, Pablo Picasso. Tolstoy maps his step-father's literary career, from its poverty-stricken beginnings to the remarkable success O'Brian enjoyed later in life. He notes how through a cruel irony of fate, just as his step-father's literary career attained greater acclaimed, O'Brian's pleasure in his achievement began to diminish. This truthful, warm and insightful biography is a testimony to Tolstoy's respect and admiration for his step-father, one of Britain's most loved literary figures.
Book Synopsis H. M. S. Surprise (Vol. Book 3) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) by : Patrick O'Brian
Download or read book H. M. S. Surprise (Vol. Book 3) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1991-05-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Few, very few books have made my heart thud with excitement. H.M.S. Surprise managed it." —Helen Lucy Burke, Irish Press In H.M.S. Surprise, British naval officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin face near-death and tumultuous romance in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Tasked with ferrying a British ambassador to the Sultan of Kampong, they find themselves on a prolonged voyage aboard a Royal Navy frigate en route to the Malay Peninsula. In this new sphere, Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy who enjoys overwhelming local superiority. But somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the prize that could secure him a marriage to his beloved Sophie and make him rich beyond his wildest dreams: the ships sent by Napoleon to attack the China Fleet.
Book Synopsis The Wine-dark Sea by : Patrick O'Brian
Download or read book The Wine-dark Sea written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outset of an adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a prize through the stormy seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted.
Book Synopsis The Frigate Surprise by : Brian Lavery
Download or read book The Frigate Surprise written by Brian Lavery and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The HMS "Surprise" starred as the principal ship in Patrick O'Brian's much-celebrated Aubrey-Maturin series of novels. This volume narrates the career of HMS "Surprise" in both her historical and fictional roles.
Book Synopsis Harbors and High Seas by : Dean King
Download or read book Harbors and High Seas written by Dean King and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion for fans of the Napoleonic sea sagas offers maps of the novels’ streets, seas, and coasts, and much more. The tall-masted sailing ships of the early nineteenth century were the technological miracles of their day, allowing their crews to traverse the seas with greater speed than had ever been possible before. Novelist Patrick O’Brian captured the thrill of that era with his characters Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, who visited exotic locales in the service of the Royal Navy. From frigid Dieppe to balmy Batavia, they strolled the ports of the world as casually as most do the streets of their hometown. Packed with maps and illustrations from the greatest age of sail, this volume shows not just where Aubrey and Maturin went, but how they got there. An incomparable reference for devotees of O’Brian’s novels and anyone who has dreamed of climbing aboard a warship, Harbors and High Seas is a captivating portrait of life on the sea, when nothing stood between man and ocean but grit, daring, and a few creaking planks of wood.
Book Synopsis The Mauritius Command by : Patrick O'Brian
Download or read book The Mauritius Command written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Maturin brings Captain Jack Aubrey secret orders to lead an expedition against the French islands of Mauritius and La Reunion, but the conduct of two of his own officers threatens the success of the mission.
Book Synopsis Every Man Will Do His Duty by : Dean King
Download or read book Every Man Will Do His Duty written by Dean King and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Napoleonic-era accounts of life aboard Royal Navy warships: “Readers of Patrick O’Brian and C. S. Forester will enjoy this collection” (Library Journal). 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. These are their stories. The inspiration for the bestselling novels by Patrick O’Brian and C. S. Forester, these 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. Their tellers are officers and ordinary sailors, and their subjects range from barroom brawls to the legendary heroics of Lord Horatio Nelson himself. Though these “iron men on wooden ships” are long gone, their deeds echo through the centuries.
Book Synopsis Master and Commander by : Patrick O'Brian
Download or read book Master and Commander written by Patrick O'Brian and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set sail for the read of your life! Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets.
Book Synopsis The Patrick O'Brian Muster Book by : Anthony Gary Brown
Download or read book The Patrick O'Brian Muster Book written by Anthony Gary Brown and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Persons, animals, ships and cannon in the Aubery-Maturin sea novels of Patrick O'Brian. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1999. With new foreword.
Book Synopsis Desolation Island (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 5) by : Patrick O’Brian
Download or read book Desolation Island (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 5) written by Patrick O’Brian and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Desolation Island, with the known world out of reach, uneasy alliances are sometimes forged...
Book Synopsis A Salty Piece of Land by : Jimmy Buffett
Download or read book A Salty Piece of Land written by Jimmy Buffett and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wander to "where the song of the ocean / Meets the salty piece of land" with Tully Mars, washed up from Margaritaville and in the mood for monkeyshines, in a shimmering Caribbean epic by the late king of tropical rock, Jimmy Buffett. It's not on any chart, but the tropical island of Cayo Loco is the perfect place to run away from all your problems. Waking from a ganja buzz on the beach in Tulum, Tully can't believe his eyes when a 142-foot schooner emerges out of the ocean mist. At its helm is Cleopatra Highbourne, the eccentric 101-year-old sea captain who will take him to a lighthouse on a salty piece of land that will change his life forever. From a lovely sunset sail in Punta Margarita to a wild spring-break foam party in San Pedro, Tully encounters an assortment of treasure hunters, rock stars, sailors, seaplane pilots, pirates, and even a ghost or two.
