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Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brian (2022, Trade Paperback)

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Blue at the Mizzen, Paperback by O'Brian, Patrick, ISBN 1324035277, ISBN-13 9781324035275, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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 boldinitiative to strike at the vastly superior Spanish fleet precipitates a spectacular naval action that will determine both Chile's fate and his own"--

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Product Identifiers

PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-101324035277

ISBN-139781324035275

eBay Product ID (ePID)22057269631

Product Key Features

Book TitleBlue at the Mizzen

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicHistorical, Sea Stories, Action & Adventure

Publication Year2022

GenreFiction

AuthorPatrick O'Brian

Book SeriesAubrey/Maturin Novels Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight7.4 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2021-050554

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsO'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin volumes actually constitute a single 6,443-page novel, one that should have been on those lists of the greatest novels of the 20th century., The best historical novels ever written... On every page Mr. O'Brian reminds us with subtle artistry of the most important of all historical lessons: that times change but people don't, that the griefs and follies and victories of the men and women who were here before us are in fact the maps of our own lives., [O'Brian's] Aubrey-Maturin series, 20 novels of the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars, is a masterpiece. It will outlive most of today's putative literary gems as Sherlock Holmes has outlived Bulwer-Lytton, as Mark Twain has outlived Charles Reade., The Aubrey-Maturin series...far beyond any episodic chronicle, ebbs and flows with the timeless tide of character and the human heart., I haven't read novels [in the past ten years] except for all of the Patrick O'Brian series. It was, unfortunately, like tripping on heroin. I started on those books and couldn't stop., I fell in love with his writing straightaway, at first with Master and Commander. It wasn't primarily the Nelson and Napoleonic period, more the human relationships... And of course having characters isolated in the middle of the goddamn sea gives more scope... It's about friendship, camaraderie. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin always remind me a bit of Mick and me., It has been something of a shock to find myself--an inveterate reader of girl books--obsessed with Patrick O'Brian's Napoleonic-era historical novels... What keeps me hooked are the evolving relationships between Jack and Stephen and the women they love., I devoured Patrick O'Brian's 20-volume masterpiece as if it had been so many tots of Jamaica grog., Filled with exuberance and humor, and a writer's palpable delight at exercising his finest muscles...At sea with a master.

Series Volume Number20

Dewey Decimal823/.914

SynopsisNapoleon 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.

LC Classification NumberPR6029.B55B57 2022