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MPN
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ISBN
039331538X
Book Title
Unknown Shore
Item Length
8.2in
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Publication Year
1996
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.7in
Author
Patrick O'Brian
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Historical
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
9.1 Oz
Number of Pages
316 Pages

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The Wager was parted from Anson's squadron in the fierce storms off Cape Horn and struggled alone up the coast of Chile until she was driven against the rocks and sank. The survivors were soon involved in trouble of every kind. A surplus of rum, a disappearing stock of food, and a hard, detested captain soon drove them into drunkenness, mutiny, and bloodshed. After many months of privation, a handful of men made their way northward under the guidance of a band of Indians, at last finding safety in Valparaiso. This saga of survival is the background to the adventures of two young men aboard the Wager: midshipman Jack Byron and his friend Tobias Barrow, an alarmingly naive surgeon's mate. Patrick O'Brian's many devoted readers will take particular interest in this story, as Jack and Toby form a kind of blueprint for Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, the famed heroes of the great Aubrey/Maturin series to come.

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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
039331538x
ISBN-13
9780393315387
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4038301793

Product Key Features

Book Title
Unknown Shore
Author
Patrick O'Brian
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Historical
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
316 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
9.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Pr6029.B55u55 1995
Reviews
Here is an unexpected bonus: a precursor to the Aubrey/Maturin series...with all the charm of the author's mature works. And for those who have been daunted by the prospect of embarking on a 17-volume series, here is the perfect way to test the waters...It has the same elements that mark Mr. O'Brian's more recent works: the wealth of social detail, the quiet humor, the harrowing shipwrecks, the swashbuckling adventures in foreign parts... .From a cozy, well-lighted 20th century home, [Jack and Toby's] travails could not be more delightful to contemplate., Immediately and unmistakably O'Brian, with humor both slapstick and subtle, the sea implacably neutral, and his heroes bold rough sketches of Aubrey and Maturin. This and The Golden Ocean are fine forerunners of the grand series, and meeting them now is like being suddenly young again., 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.
Copyright Date
1959
Lccn
95-032887
Dewey Decimal
823.9/14
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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  • by jamespinatipi
    Nov 06, 2018

    Excellent history: use EARTH & Naval Dictionary

    Anyone one of Patrick O'Brian's book is a jewel; in the 21 book sequence, the reader is rejoined w history in the dueling of England, France-Napoleon, Spain, Portugal, America, the whaling industry, all the islands, the rising 40s, the Horn and the commands of the navies along with personal thoughts and interactions of each officers and their loved ones.

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