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Cover of 12 The Letter of Marque

12 The Letter of Marque

✍ Scribed by O'Brian, Patrick


Book ID
108059685
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Year
2012
Tongue
German
Weight
380 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780007429073

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✦ 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,...


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