Harbors And High Seas
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| Author | : Dean King |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 349 |
| Release | : 2012-03-20 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 145323831X |
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.
| Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780393037098 |
"The finest writer of sea-stories in the English language."--J. de Courcy Ireland
| Author | : Patrick O'Brian |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2004-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780393060119 |
These five volumes are a perfect gift for the serious O'Brian enthusiast. Now, four years after O'Brian's death, his estate has agreed to release the chapters of the novel he was working on when he died. It is both fitting and moving that in these pages we are given a glimpse of Jack Aubrey raising his admiral's flag at last.
| Author | : Dean King |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2000-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780805066142 |
This atlas and geographical guide to navigating the well-loved Aubrey-Maturin novels has been updated with new chapters devoted to the final books of the series. 43 illustrations. 56 maps.
| Author | : Chotzinoff Anne Grossman |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2000-10-03 |
| Genre | : Cooking |
| ISBN | : 9780393320947 |
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.
| Author | : Dean King |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 548 |
| Release | : 2012-03-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1453238301 |
A guide to the British Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Age for fans of the Aubrey–Maturin series: “A gem of a book” (Minneapolis Star Tribune). What is a sand-grouse, and where does it live? What are the medical properties of lignum vitae, and how did Stephen Maturin use it to repair his viola? Who is Admiral Lord Keith, and why is his wife so friendly with Captain Jack Aubrey? More than any other contemporary author, Patrick O’Brian knew the past. His twenty Aubrey–Maturin novels, beginning with 1969’s Master and Commander, are distinguished by deep characterization, heart-stopping naval combat, and an attention to detail that enriches and enlivens his stories. In this revised edition of A Sea of Words, Dean King and his collaborators dive into Jack Aubrey’s world. In addition to their invaluable glossary, the authors provide essays on the age’s politics, naval medicine, and the many ships that Jack Aubrey sailed, sighted, and fought against. For both the curious fan and the O’Brian aficionado, A Sea of Words is an invaluable tome on the British Royal Navy.
| Author | : Dean King |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 679 |
| Release | : 2012-03-20 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1453238336 |
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
| Author | : Richard O'Neill |
| Publisher | : Running PressBook Pub |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0762415401 |
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.
| Author | : Dean King |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Brian Lavery |
| Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2005-01-30 |
| Genre | : Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character) |
| ISBN | : 9781591144021 |
"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.
