Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'brian

Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'brian

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.

"O'Brian has presented his readers with a shining jewel..an intricate, multifaceted work." -- New York Times Book Review
"Filled with exuberance and humor, and a writer's palpable delight at exercising his finest muscles. . . . At sea with a master." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"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." -- E. O. Wilson - Boston Globe

One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O’Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9780393048445
ISBN 10	0393048446
Titel	Blue at the Mizzen
Autor	Patrick O'brian
Serie	Aubrey Maturin Novels
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsjahr	1999-12-17
Seitenanzahl	272
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.