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Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brian
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels
Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a peacetime navy. When the Surprise is nearly sunk on her way to South America-where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin a ...Show more
HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brian
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels | Reading Level: very good
Third in the series of Aubrey-Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy enjoying overwhelming loc ...Show more
The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Napoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead the French armies to triumph at Waterloo. In the Balkans, preparing a thrust northwards into Central Eu ...Show more
The Ionian Mission #8 by Patrick O'Brian
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Aubrey/Maturin Ser.
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the eight ...Show more
The Letter of Marque by Patrick O'Brian
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels | Reading Level: very good
Captain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old friend Stephen Maturin, usually cast as a ship's surgeon to mask his discreet activities on behalf of British Intelligence, has bought for Aubrey his former ship ...Show more
The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels | Reading Level: very good
Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command-until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant, there to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Reunion. But the difficulties o ...Show more
The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O'Brian
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels
Shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner from the wreck. A vicious attack by Malay pirates is repulsed, but the makeshift vessel burns, and they are truly marooned. Their e ...Show more
The Reverse of the Medal by Patrick O'Brian
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels | Reading Level: very good
Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionage-the province of his friend Stephen Maturin. Is Aubrey's humiliat ...Show more
The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick O'Brian
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attention of two privateers soon becomes menacing. The ch ...Show more
The Truelove by Patrick O'Brian
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels
A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the sandwich islands at French instigation, and Captain Aubrey, R. N., Is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away in the cable-tier is an escaped female convict. To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward c ...Show more
The Wine Dark Sea by Patrick O'Brian
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels
At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean reminds Stephen of Homer's famous description, and portends an underwater volcanic eruption that will create a new is ...Show more
The Yellow Admiral by Patrick O'Brian
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels Ser. | Reading Level: good
Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O'Brian's best-selling novel and eighteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Aubrey, now a considerable though impoverished landowner, has dimmed his prospects at the Admiralty by his erratic voting as a Member o ...Show more