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The Commodore (Aubrey/Maturin Novels, Band 17) - Hardcover

Buch 17 von 21: Aubrey/Maturin Novels

O'Brian, Patrick

 
9780393037609: The Commodore (Aubrey/Maturin Novels, Band 17)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0393037606 ISBN 13: 9780393037609
Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

The seventeenth in the best-selling series of naval tales finds Aubrey and Maturin returning to England and their families, but ultimately sent to Ireland where their seamanship and intelligence skills are put to the test. 100,000 first printing. Tour.

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One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O'Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.

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Having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, at least initially, but for Stephen disastrous: his little daughter appears to be autistic, incapable of speech or contact, while his wife, Diana, unable to bear this situation, has disappeared, her house being looked after by the widowed Clarissa Oakes. Much of The Commodore takes place on land, in sitting rooms and drafty castles, but the roar of the great guns is never far from our hearing. Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade, but their ultimate destination is Ireland. There the French are mounting an invasion that will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent, and the climax of the story is one of those grand and thrilling fleet actions on which the supremacy of the British Navy was founded.

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Verlag
W W NORTON & CO
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393037606
ISBN 13 
9780393037609
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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