For each novel in the series, renowned naval cartographer William Clipson has created maps depicting the routes of voyages taken and locating the sites of major battles, storms, landings, crossings, and other events.
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written.
The Surprises were very kind to Mr Gill , as well they might be , since he had done them no sort of harm , while his trusting nature had , with no great pains on their part , delivered them a prize , deep - laden with white - oil and ...
It is the dawn of the nineteenth century; Britain is at war with Napoleon's France. When Jack Aubrey, a young lieutenant in Nelson's navy, is promoted to captain, he inherits...
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.
A companion reference for fans of the popular historical fiction series includes more than two thousand cross-referenced terms, diagrams, maps, and accompanying short essays. Original. 25,000 first printing.
Jack Aubrey and his friend Stephen Maturin set course across the South Atlantic to intercept a powerful American frigateoutward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade.
This comprehensive lexicon provides definitions of nautical terms, historical entries describing the people and political events that shaped the period, and detailed explanations of the scientific, medical, and biblical references...
Aubrey/Maturin Novels: Desolation Island
The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels: - Volume Two - Desolation Island, the Fortune of War, the Surgeon's Mate, the Ionian Mission...
Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command until his friend, surgeon and secret agent Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope, under a commodore's pennant.
Worse, he's off to the Mediterranean to join the Royal Navy's endless blockade of the French port of Toulon. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates.
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are in pursuit of a privateer sailing under American colours.
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 sixteenth book in the series.
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.
The fourteenth novel in the classic Aubrey-Maturin series finds Aubrey and Maturin shipwrecked, harassed by pirates and then in the brutal penal colonies of New South Wales.
Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea, shepherding a diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes. At the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang...
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.
The inspiration for the major new motion picture starring Russell Crowe.
In O'Brian's most ambitious book to date, Napoleon escapes from Elba, and the fate of Europe hinges on a desperate mission: Stephen Maturin must ferret out the French dictator's secret link to the powers of Islam, and Jack Aubrey must ...