O'BRIAN PATRICK

(P/B) MASTER AND COMMANDER
"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 a secret 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 his competitors: his depiction of the detail of life aboard a Nels...
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(P/B) THE NUTMEG OF CONSOLATION
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the fourteenth book in the series. Patrick O'Brian is regarded by many as the greatest living historical novelist writing in English. In The Nutmeg of Consolation, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin begin stranded on an uninhabited island in the Dutch E...
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(P/B) THE IONIAN MISSION
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. Jack is now a senior Captain commanding a ship sent out to reinforce the squadron blockading 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. All his old skills of seamanship and his proverbial luck when fighting against odds come triumphantly into their own. The book...
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(P/B) THE MAURUTIUS COMMAND
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the fourth book in the series. Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command - until his friend, and occasional intelligence agent, Stephen Maturin, arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope, under...
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(P/B) POST CAPTAIN
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Patrick O'Brian is regarded by many as the greatest historical novelist now writing. Post Captain, the second novel in his remarkable Aubrey/Maturin series, led Mary Renault to write: 'Master and Commander raised dangerously high expectations; Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them.' This tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the Treaty o...
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(P/B) DESOLATION ISLAND
Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now, for the first time, they are available in electronic book format, so a whole new generation of readers can be swept away on the adventure of a lifetime. This is the fifth book in the series. Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon, Stephen Maturin, sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy - ...
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(P/B) THE SURGEON'S MATE
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by despatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World and the attentions of two privateers soon become menacing. The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is as thrilling, as tense and as unexpected as anything Patrick O' Brian has written. Then, among other things, follows a shipwreck and a particularly sinister internment in th...
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(P/B) THE FORTUNE OF WAR
Captain Jack Aubrey, RN, arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a despatch vessel. But the war of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen's past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) THE UNCERTAIN LAND AND OTHER POEMS
The first ever collection of poems by the acclaimed author of the Aubrey/Maturin series of Napoleonic naval adventures. As we have stood with Jack and Stephen on the deck of the Surprise and other ships, readers around the world have been transported to a place and time at once familiar and exotic, routine and dramatic. At all times, Patrick O'Brian's deep knowledge of the period and profound empathy with the landscape of the sea has ensured there is always a firm hand on the tiller. The writer's command of language is combined with the po...
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(P/B) H.M.S. SURPRISE
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. H.M.S. Surprise follows the variable fortunes of Captain Jack Aubrey's career in Nelson's navy as he attempts to hold his ground against admirals, colleagues and the enemy, accepting a mission to convey a British ambassador to the East Indies. The voyage takes him and his friend Stephen Maturin to the strange sights and smells of the Indian sub-continent, and through the archipelago of spice islands where the French h...
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(P/B) THE YELLOW ADMIRAL
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now, for the first time, they are available in electronic book format, so a whole new generation of readers can be swept away on the adventure of a lifetime. This is the eighteenth book in the series. The Yellow Admiral - the eighteenth novel in the sequence hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written - sets the fall and rise of Jack Aubrey in brilliant counterpoint to the fall and rise of Napoleon...
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(P/B) THE COMMODORE
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now, for the first time, they are available in electronic book format, so a whole new generation of readers can be swept away on the adventure of a lifetime. This is the seventeenth book in the series. Jack Aubrey's long service is at last rewarded: he is promoted to the rank of Commodore and given a squadron of ships to command. His mission is twofold - to make a large dent in the slave trade off the coast of Africa ...
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(P/B) RICHARD TEMPLE
This is the story of Richard Temple - prisoner of war, sometime adventurer, lover and artist. (. . .) Patrick O'Brian's signature combination of narrative flair, intuitive sympathy and psychological insight make this a fascinating exploration of how passive resistance can be a form of courage, and what it truly means to be a hero. (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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(P/B) THE REVERSE OF THE MEDAL
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the eleventh book in the series. The Reverse of the Medal is in all respects an unconventional naval tale. Jack Aubrey returns from his duties protecting whalers off South America and is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make investments in the C...
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(P/B) THE LETTER OF MARQUE
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the twelfth book in the series. Jack Aubrey is a naval officer, a post-captain of experience and capacity. When The Letter of Marque opens he has been struck off the Navy List for a crime he has not committed. With Aubrey is his friend and ship's sur...
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(P/B) THE WINE-DARK SEA
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now, for the first time, they are available in electronic book format, so a whole new generation of readers can be swept away on the adventure of a lifetime. This is the sixteenth book in the series. At the opening of a voyage filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are in pursuit of a privateer sailing under American colours through the Great South Sea. Stephen's objective is to set the rev...
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(P/B) THE HUNDRED DAYS
Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the nineteenth book in the series. Following the extraordinary success of The Yellow Admiral, this latest Aubrey-Maturin novel brings alive the sights and sounds of North Africa as well as the great naval battles in the days immediately following Nap...
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ΚΟΥΡΣΑΡΟΙ ΣΤΗ ΣΤΕΡΙΑ
Στον ανελέητο κόσμο της κατασκοπίας, της συνωμοσίας και του αθέμιτου ανταγωνισμού, ο γνωστός μας πλέον πλοίαρχος Τζακ Όμπρι, μαζί με τον αχώριστο σύντροφό του το γιατρό και μυστικό πράκτορα Στίβεν Ματούριν, αναλαμβάνουν και πάλι δράση. Αυτή τη φορά, συνωμοτικές δραστηριότητες και απάτες στο Χρηματιστήριο του Λονδίνου φέρνουν τον Τζακ Όμπρι σε δεινή θέση: πέφτει θύμα σκευωρίας και καθαίρεται από το βαθμό του. Στη θάλασσα, οι στόλοι των εθνών της Γης πολεμούν μεταξύ τους. Είναι η εποχή που ανθεί η πειρατεία, που οι κουρσάροι λεηλατούν πλοία ...
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ΑΙΧΜΑΛΩΤΟΙ ΤΩΝ ΩΚΕΑΝΩΝ
Πάντοτε στην υπηρεσία του βασιλέα της Μεγάλης Βρετανίας, ο πλοίαρχος Τζακ Όμπρι και ο αχώριστος συνεργάτης του Στίβεν Ματούριν οργώνουν τις θάλασσες και τους ωκεανούς αντιμετωπίζοντας νέες περιπέτειες. Σε τούτη την καινούργια τους διαδρομή, κινδυνεύουν από πειρατές-κυνηγούς κεφαλών, ναυαγούν σε ένα ακατοίκητο νησί, γνωρίζουν τα παράξενα ζώα και φυτά της Ωκεανίας καθώς και τις πρώτες αποικίες των κατάδικων της Αυστραλίας. Περιπέτειες σε στεριές και θάλασσες, γοητευτικές χώρες και ποικιλία χαρακτήρων συνθέτουν ένα ακόμη γοητευτικό βιβλίο για...
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ΟΙ ΤΥΧΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΟΛΕΜΟΥ
Βρισκόμαστε στην εποχή των Ναπολεόντειων Πολέμων. Στη θάλασσα, οι στόλοι όλων των εθνών της γης αντιμάχονται ο ένας τον άλλον. Είναι η εποχή που ανθεί η περιπέτεια, που οι κουρσάροι λεηλατούν πλοία και λιμάνια με τις ευλογίες των κυβερνήσεων και που ο ρομαντικός έρωτας βασιλεύει ανάβοντας κι αυτός τις δικές του φωτιές. Οι περιπέτειες του πλοιάρχου Τζακ Όμπρι και του γιατρού Στίβεν Ματούριν συνεχίζονται. Περνούν ένα μεγάλο διάστημα σε αιχμαλωσία ενώ ο γιατρός συναντά ξανά το μεγάλο έρωτα της ζωής του. Οι έρωτες και οι δολοπλοκίες θα κορυφωθ...
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