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The Wine-Dark Sea

Captain Aubrey and the crew of the Surprise are pursuing an American privateer through the Great South Sea.

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  • "Captain Aubrey and the crew of the Surprise are pursuing an American privateer through the Great South Sea."@en
  • "1st American ed."
  • "At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a heavy American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean water reminds Stephen of Homer's famous description, but it also portends a spectacular submarine volcanic eruption that will create a new island overnight and leave an indelible impression on the reader's imagination. Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen's mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America. Jack will survive a desperate open-boat journey and come face to face with his illegitimate black son; Stephen, caught up in the aftermath of his failed coup, will flee for his life into the high, frozen wastes of the Andes; and Patrick O'Brian's brilliantly detailed narrative will reunite them at last in a breathtaking chase through storm seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted. This is storytelling without models or equals in recent literature; critics have noted in O'Brian's great Aubrey/Maturin epic, now sixteen volumes in length, haunting echoes of such writers as Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, and Jane Austen. Some readers will respond to the undeniable excitement of the chases, storms, and battles, others to the precision of language, or the humor, or the wealth of erudition in Maturin's researches and conversations. But the truest mark of O'Brian's stature as a novelist may be the great number of readers who find fresh delights and deeper resonances in rereading his novels."@en
  • "At the outset of this adventure, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a heavy American privateer through the Great South Sea. Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen's mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America. Jack will survive a desperate open-boat journey and come face to face with his illegitimate black son; Stephen, caught up in the aftermath of his failed coup, will flee for his life into the high, frozen wastes of the Andes; and Patrick O'Brian's brilliantly detailed narrative will reunite them at last in a breathtaking chase through storm seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Sea stories"
  • "Sea stories"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Large print"@en
  • "Naval history"@en
  • "Naval history"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historische Romane und Erzählungen"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Ausgabe"

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  • "Un Mar oscuro como el Oporto : una novela de la Armada Inglesa"
  • "The Wine-Dark Sea"@en
  • "Wine-dark Sea"
  • "Wine-dark Sea"@en
  • "The Wine-Dark Sea Book#16"
  • "Gefährliche See vor Kap Hoorn : Roman"
  • "The Wine-dark sea"
  • "Fuoco sotto il mare : romanzo"
  • "Fuoco sotto il mare : romanzo"@it
  • "Gefährliche See vor Kap Horn"
  • "The wine-dark sea: The Aubrey/Maturin novels book 16"@en
  • "The Wine Dark Sea"
  • "Un mar oscuro como el oporto : una novela de la Armada inglesa"
  • "Un mar oscuro como el oporto : una novela de la Armada inglesa"@es
  • "Gefährliche See vor Kap Hoorn Roman"
  • "The wine-dark sea"
  • "The wine-dark sea"@en
  • "The wine-dark sea : Aubrey/Maturin tales. Book sixteen"@en

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