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The Hundred Days Audio Book
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The Hundred Days
Author:
Patrick O'Brian
Reader: Simon Vance
The fate of Europe hinges on a desperate mission. Stephen Maturin must ferret out the escaped Napoleon's secret link to the powers of Islam, and Jack Aubrey must destroy it. 19th in the series. "Colorful historical background, smooth plotting, marvelous characters and great style."—Publishers Weekly
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Available Audio Book Editions:
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Audio CDs ( 7 ) |
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Publish Date: 02/01/2008
ISBN: 9781433209123
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| A7B911 |
Unabridged |
Cassettes (7) |
$29.95 |
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| A1B124 |
Unabridged |
MP3-CD (1) |
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| AP6164 |
Unabridged |
Playaway (1) |
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Synopsis:
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The British Navy is faced with Napoleon's escape from Elba and the "hundred days" until his final defeat at Waterloo in mid-1815. Aubrey and Maturin are in a race against time to intercept his forces before French aid arrives.
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Book Reviews:
| "[T]hese naval tales are blended into a larger panorama of Georgian society and politics, science, medicine, botany and the whole conspectus of contemporary Enlightenment knowledge about the natural world....Naval actions off the Adriatic coast, strenuous secret journeys into the interior North African wastes by Maturin and a decisive battle to seize a gold convoy attempting to run the Strait of Gibraltar are typical high points of this tale, though always interspersed with those special O'Brian features." |
| New York Times Book Review - Paul Kennedy (10/18/1998) |
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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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