Desolation Island

Patrick O'Brian (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

348 Seiten

2007 | Re-issue
HarperPerennial (Verlag)
978-0-00-725587-0 (ISBN)

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Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets. Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon, Stephen Maturin, sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy -- and a treacherous disease which decimates the crew. The ingredients of a wonderfully powerful and dramatic O'Brian novel are heightened by descriptive writing of rare quality. Nowhere in contemporary prose have the majesty and terror of the sea been more effectively rendered than in the thrilling chase through an Antarctic storm in which Jack's ship, under-manned and out-gunned, is the quarry not the hunter.

Patrick O'Brian, until his death in 2000, was one of our greatest contemporary novelists. He is the author of the acclaimed 'Aubrey--Maturin' tales and the biographer of Joseph Banks and Picasso. He is the author of many other books including 'Testimonies', and his 'Collected Short Stories'. In 1995 he was the first recipient of the Heywood Hill Prize for a lifetime's contribution to literature. In the same year he was awarded the CBE. In 1997 he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Trinity College, Dublin. He lived for many years in South West France and he died in Dublin in January 2000.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.6.2007
Reihe/Serie	Master & Commander ; Vol.5
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 197 mm
Gewicht	236 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Historische Romane
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
Schlagworte	Englisch; Romane/Erzählungen
ISBN-10	0-00-725587-X / 000725587X
ISBN-13	978-0-00-725587-0 / 9780007255870
Zustand	Neuware