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The Hundred Days. New Large Print ed

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.

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  • "Stephen Maturin tries to turn Napoleon's secret link to the Islamic world against the emperor.--"
  • "Dans ce dix-neuvième et avant-dernier volet de la saga maritime de P. O'Brian, Jack Aubrey est nommé commodore, avec une escadre sous ses ordres. Chargé de détruire les navires que l'on construit pour Napoléon échappé de l'île d'Elbe, il multiplie les actions d'éclat. Porté à l'écran par Peter Weir."
  • "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."
  • "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."@en
  • "The Hundred Days to most people calls to mind Napoleons last, colossal gamble with the fate of his adopted country. But they also heralded a return to the long, long war which had at last ended in 1814. This was more than most flesh and blood could bear. Except, perhaps for naval flesh and blood, whose career prospects lay in stepping into a rank vacated by death. Not for nothing was a bloody war and a sickly season one of the regular weekly toasts of the wardroom officers. Yet in Patrick O'"
  • "This story transports you to the high seas of the Napoleonic era when the French demagogue is making a desperate attempt to control the European world. While Napoleon pursues the British across Europe, rumors fly about him forging a secret link with the forces of Islam. Soon an ominous horde of Muslim mercenaries gather. In a desperate attempt to avert disaster, ship's doctor Stephen Maturin navigates oriental politics to uncover the truth. And blustery Commodore Jack Aubrey launches a daring mission to destroy the growing French-Muslim menace."
  • "On the high seas, Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his co-adventurer, Dr. Stephen Maturin, chase a shipment of gold destined for Napoleon. The emperor has escaped from Elba and the gold would enable him to raise more troops."
  • "Napolean escapes from Elba and the fate of Europe hinges on a desperate mission to seek out the dictator's secret link to the powers of Islam."@en
  • "Brians masterly imaginative recreation of the Nelsonic Navy there were, as in every war, fighting men whose sensibilities revolted from the slaughter."
  • "Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin race against time in an attempt to intercept a shipment of gold ingots to a horde of Muslim mercenaries who, if paid, are prepared to help Napoleon in his campaign across Europe."@en
  • "Aubrey and Maturin must intercept the gold shipment that Napoleon is sending to Muslim mercenaries."@en

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  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Naval history"
  • "Naval history"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Sea stories"
  • "Sea stories"@en
  • "History"@en
  • "Historische Romane und Erzählungen"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Los Cien días"
  • "The Hundred Days. New Large Print ed"@en
  • "Les Cent Jours"
  • "The hundred days. [read by Graham Roberts]"@en
  • "Hundred days"
  • "Mission im Mittelmeer Roman"
  • "The Hundred Days"@en
  • "The hundred days"@en
  • "The hundred days"
  • "The hundred days / Book 19"@en
  • "I cento giorni : romanzo"@it
  • "I cento giorni : romanzo"
  • "Los cien días"@es
  • "Les cent jours : roman"

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