Master and Commander

Master and Commander
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007255837

Set sail for the read of your life! 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.

Lobscouse and Spotted Dog

Lobscouse and Spotted Dog
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.

Treason's Harbour

Treason's Harbour
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

Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O'Brian
Author: Nikolai Tolstoy
Publisher: Arrow
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Historical fiction
ISBN: 9780099415848

Tolstoy accumulated a vast collection of his stepfather's papers, correspondence, and notebooks--many of which are reproduced here--to present a complex portrait of the man considered by many to be the greatest British novelist of the 20th century.

Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2000-09-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0393088502

"The old master has us again in the palm of his hand." —Los Angeles Times Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a peacetime navy. When the Surprise is nearly sunk on her way to South America—where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain—the delay occasioned by repairs reaps a harvest of strange consequences. The South American expedition is a desperate affair; and in the end Jack's bold initiative to strike at the vastly superior Spanish fleet precipitates a spectacular naval action that will determine both Chile's fate and his own.

Post Captain (Vol. Book 2) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

Post Captain (Vol. Book 2) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 480
Release: 1990-08-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0393059936

“If Jane Austen had written rousing sea yarns, she would have produced something very close to the prose of Patrick O'Brian.” —Time It’s 1802. The Treaty of Amiens has brought an end to the hostilities between Great Britain and France. Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend, naval surgeon Stephen Maturin, are enjoying the respite in the English countryside, besotted with two beautiful cousins, Sophie Williams and Diana Villiers—until Aubrey loses his fortune and they flee to France to escape his creditors. While in France, Napoleon smashes the Peace of Amiens and war begins anew. Aubrey and Maturin, now finding themselves behind enemy lines, make their way back to England. Maturin is sent to Spain on an intelligence-gathering mission and the now-solvent Aubrey assumes command of a strange warship, pursuing his quarry straight into the mouth of a French-held harbor. Amidst the rollicking adventures at sea and mishaps on land, Aubrey and Maturin’s friendship is tested by their romantic entanglements with the cousins in this brilliant second installment of the epic series.

The Fortune of War

The Fortune of War
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 342
Release: 1994
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780393037067

Aubrey and Maturin are caught in the outbreak of the War of 1812.

The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels

The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels
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.

The Far Side of the World (Vol. Book 10) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

The Far Side of the World (Vol. Book 10) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2011-12-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0393063828

The tenth installment in the beloved, epic Aubrey/Maturin series and inspiration for the major motion picture starring Russell Crowe. The War of 1812 continues, and Captain Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to wreak havoc with the British whaling trade. Meanwhile, Stephen Maturin has a mission of his own in the world of secret intelligence and comes face to face with the harsh realities for women of the age. Disaster in various guises awaits them in the Great South Sea and in the far reaches of the Pacific—typhoons, castaways, shipwrecks, an ill-fated affair, murder, and criminal insanity—as well as a bold rescue by a crew of seafaring female warriors.

Patrick O'Brian's Navy

Patrick O'Brian's Navy
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.