The Ionian Mission
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The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'brian
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain commanding a line-of-battle ship in the Royal Navy's blockade of Toulon, and this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing frigate actions of his early days. A sudden turn of events takes him and Stephen off on a hazardous mission to the Greek Islands, where all his old skills of seamanship and his proverbial luck when fighting against odds come triumphantly into their own.
"I haven’t read novels [in the past ten years] except for all of the Patrick O’Brian seriesIt was, unfortunately, like tripping on heroin. I started on those books and couldn’t stop." -- E. O. Wilson - Boston Globe
"O'Brian's books are as atypical of conventional sea stories as Conrad's. Like John LeCarré, he has erased the boundary separating a debased genre from 'serious' fiction. O'Brian is a novelist, pure and simple, one of the best we have." -- Mark Horowitz - Los Angeles Times Book Review
"They're funny, they're exciting, they're informative...There are legions of us who gladly ship out time and time again under Captain Aubrey." -- The New Yorker
"O'Brian's books are as atypical of conventional sea stories as Conrad's. Like John LeCarré, he has erased the boundary separating a debased genre from 'serious' fiction. O'Brian is a novelist, pure and simple, one of the best we have." -- Mark Horowitz - Los Angeles Times Book Review
"They're funny, they're exciting, they're informative...There are legions of us who gladly ship out time and time again under Captain Aubrey." -- The New Yorker
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393037081 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393037088 |
| Titel | The Ionian Mission |
| Autor | Patrick O'brian |
| Serie | Aubrey Maturin Novels |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Verlag | WW Norton & Co |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1996-01-26 |
| Seitenanzahl | 384 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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