This atlas tracks the routes taken and summarizes the plots of all 17 of Patrick O'Brian's Napoleonic sea sagas.
Harbors and High Seas: A Map Book and Geogrphical Guide to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels of Patrick O'Brian
Harbors and High Seas, Fourth Edition
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.
In this revised edition of A Sea of Words, Dean King and his collaborators dive into Jack Aubrey’s world.
King 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 ...
Such a massive Navy required the service of more than 100,000 men—from officers to deckhands to surgeons. These are their stories.
The author of the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin historical sea novels presents a concise, profusely illustrated description of daily life in Nelson's navy, including anecdotes about the battles and commanders that established Britain's naval ...
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.
A photographic essay of the world depicted in Patrick O'Brian's Napoleonic era novels features images of museum artifacts culled from shipwrecked vessels to present a perspective of the everyday lives of sailors and officers in the Royal ...
Explores the links between naval facts and naval fiction particularly the works of Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester, showing how the life of real naval heroes compares to that portrayed in novels and films.