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H.M.S. Surprise Audio Book
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H.M.S. Surprise
Author:
Patrick O'Brian
Reader: Simon Vance
Aubrey and Maturin venture among the exotic sights and smells of India and in the distant waters plowed by the ships of the East India Company. On the defensive, Aubrey pits his wits and seamanship against a powerful enemy. But somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the ultimate prize: the ships sent by Napoleon to attack the China Fleet. Third in the series.
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Available Audio Book Editions:
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Publish Date: 03/12/2004
ISBN: 9780786127658
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| A9B597 |
Unabridged |
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$49.95 |
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| A1B562 |
Unabridged |
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| AP8546 |
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Synopsis:
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The third volume in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series. On the Indian subcontinent, Captain Jack Aubrey and his ship, the "Surprise," fight for an unusually lavish treasure carried by a fleet of French ships. Meanwhile, the romance between the ship's surgeon, Stephen Maturin, and the impossible Diana Villiers takes an unfortunate turn.
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Author Bio:
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Born in England as Richard Patrick Russ, the eighth of nine children, O'Brian changed his name and cut himself off from his family at the age of 29, for reasons unknown. He published a book at the age of 15, called CAESAR: THE LIFE STORY OF A PANDA LEOPARD. A doctor recommended sea air for his weak lungs, and he learned to sail--a lifelong interest that is a vital part of his Aubrey-Maturin novels, his popular and critically acclaimed novels of the English navy during the Napoleonic Wars. O'Brian married young, had a son and a daughter (who died in childhood), and was divorced before World War II. In 1945, he married Mary Wicksteed Tolstoy (who when he met her was married to Count Dmitri Tolstoy). O'Brian was unfit for active duty in World War II; instead, he drove an ambulance and worked for the British secret service. After the war, he and Mary moved to Wales under his new name, and he began to write, but eventually they relocated to the more congenial climate of the small village of Collioure, in the south of France, where O'Brian lived in determined obscurity. The first of the Aubrey-Maturin novels, MASTER AND COMMANDER, was published in 1969; the last, BLUE AT THE MIZZEN, appeared in 1999. He claimed that his chief influence was not Conrad or Melville or any other master of the sea novel, but Jane Austen, whom he revered above all other writers and re-read constantly. In addition to the Aubrey-Maturin series, O'Brian wrote biographies (of Picasso, among others) and translated many works from French. Like his character Stephen Maturin, he was a dedicated naturalist. He was also an amateur astronomer, knew several languages well (including Spanish and Catalan), and had a small vineyard behind his house. He died in Dublin, where he worked for the last two years of his life as an honored guest of Trinity College.
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