12 The Letter of Marque
β Scribed by O'Brian, Patrick
- Book ID
- 108059685
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- German
- Weight
- 380 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780007429073
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Patrick OBrians Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now, for the first time, they are available in electronic book format, so a whole new generation of readers can be swept away on the adventure of a lifetime. This is the twelfth book in the series. Jack Aubrey is a naval officer, a post-captain of experience and capacity. When The Letter of Marque opens he has been struck off the Navy List for a crime he has not committed. With Aubrey is his friend and ships surgeon Stephen Maturin, who is also an unofficial British intelligence agent. Maturin has bought for Aubrey his old ship the Surprise, so that the misery of ejection from the service can be palliated by the command of what Aubrey calls a private man-of-war a letter of marque, a privateer. Together they sail on a voyage which, if successful, might restore Aubrey to the rank, and the raison detre, whose loss he so much regrets. Around these simple,...
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Jack Aubrey is a naval officer, a post-captain of experience and capacity. When The Letter of Marque opens he has been struck off the Navy List for a crime he has not committed. With Aubrey is his friend and shipβs surgeon Stephen Maturin, who is also an unofficial British intelligence agent. Maturi
Jack Aubrey is a naval officer, a post-captain of experience and capacity. When The Letter of Marque opens he has been struck off the Navy List for a crime he has not committed. With Aubrey is his friend and shipβs surgeon Stephen Maturin, who is also an unofficial British intelligence agent. Maturi
Jack Aubrey is a naval officer, a post-captain of experience and capacity. When The Letter of Marque opens he has been struck off the Navy List for a crime he has not committed. With Aubrey is his friend and shipβs surgeon Stephen Maturin, who is also an unofficial British intelligence agent. Maturi
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart ne