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PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-10039303707X

ISBN-139780393037074

eBay Product ID (ePID)28038302321

Product Key Features

Book TitleSurgeon's Mate

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1994

TopicHistorical, Sea Stories, Action & Adventure

GenreFiction

AuthorPatrick O'Brian

Book SeriesAubrey/Maturin Novels Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight22 Oz

Item Length8.6 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

ReviewsThe high seas are his home place--as they were for Melville and Conrad. And his time, the age and era of the great Nelson, is the altogether gracefully resurrected past, in large and small and always in a wealth of shining details. But Patrick O'Brian is a novelist for here and now, someone who shares his splendid vision, his wonderful sense of character, with a growing number of lucky contemporary readers who have found his works., [O'Brian's] Aubrey-Maturin series, 20 novels of the RoyalNavy in the Napoleonic Wars, is a masterpiece. It will outlive most of today'sputative literary gems as Sherlock Holmes has outlived Bulwer-Lytton, as MarkTwain has outlived Charles Reade, 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.

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition21

Series Volume Number7

Dewey Decimal823/.914

SynopsisJack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attention of two privateers soon becomes menacing. The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is as tense, and as unexpected in its culmination, as anything Patrick O'Brian has written., "Vividly detailed 19th-century settings and dramatic tension punctuated with flashes of wry humor make O'Brian's nautical adventure a splendid treat."--Publishers Weekly