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Cover of 19 The Hundred Days

19 The Hundred Days

✍ Scribed by O'Brian, Patrick


Book ID
108059582
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Year
2012
Tongue
German
Weight
200 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780007429448

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✦ Synopsis


Patrick O'Brian's 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 nineteenth book in the series.

Following the extraordinary success of The Yellow Admiral, this latest Aubrey-Maturin novel brings alive the sights and sounds of North Africa as well as the great naval battles in the days immediately following Napoleon's escape from Elba. Aubrey and Maturin are in the thick of the plots and counterplots to prevent his regaining power. Coloured by conspiracies in the Adriatic, in the Berber and Arab lands of the southern shores of the Mediterranean, by night actions, fierce pursuits, slave-trading and lion hunts, The Hundred Days is a masterpiece.

'O'Brian is far and away the best of the Napoleonic storytellers and The Hundred Days is one...


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