The WineDark Sea, Patrick OBrian
The WineDark Sea, Patrick OBrian
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The Wine-Dark Sea

Author: Patrick O'Brian

Narrator: Patrick Tull

Unabridged: 12 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/10/2008

Synopsis

Large in body and spirit, Jack Aubrey throws his heavy frame up mainmasts as if he were a boy of ten. Tendentiously traditional, Aubrey spends his evenings with ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin, a brilliant naturalist and occasional spy for the British government. In the quiet of Aubrey’s cabin, the two work on their Corelli; after numerous voyages their friendship has mellowed into a touching, if occasionally tempestuous, marriage.

Devotees can expect a number of spectacular battle scenes, shipboard jests, and the historical mimicry for which O’Brian is so famous. Maturin’s efforts to persuade Peruvians to revolt against the Spanish crown will send him on a perilous journey across the Andes, while Aubrey will be reunited briefly with his illegitimate black son, and suffer dreadfully under the blustery politics of a Rousseauian.

This audiobook includes an exclusive afterword with the author.

About Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O’Brian (1914–2000), a translator and author of biographies, was best known as the author of the highly acclaimed Aubrey–Maturin series of historical novels. Set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars ,this twenty-volume series centers on the enduring friendship between naval officer Jack Aubrey and physician and spy Stephen Maturin. The Far Side of the World, the tenth book in the series, was adapted into a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany. The film was nominated for ten Oscars, including Best Picture. He wrote acclaimed biographies of Pablo Picasso and Sir Joseph Banks. He also translated many works from the French, among them the novels and memoirs of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Lacouture’s biographies of Charles de Gaulle.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Clemens on April 12, 2022

Read this book in2009, and its the 16th wonderful volume of the great "Aubrey/Maturin" series. In this tale Jack Aubrey and his crew on their ship the "Surprise" are in pursuit after an American privateer through the Great South Sea. While pursuing this American privateer the colour of the ocean will......more

Goodreads review by Wealhtheow on February 19, 2015

Doctor Stephen Maturin, an intelligence agent of formidable powers, is dispatched to discomfit the Napoleonic French and their allies. With him comes his particular friend, naval captain Jack Aubrey. Each of them has some successes on this long voyage--Jack takes a truly ridiculous number of prizes-......more

Goodreads review by Cherie on April 12, 2017

One of my favorite in the series yet. Imagine being in a sailing ship near an underwater volcano when it decided to erupt and push up to the surface! Ice bergs in the south sea at the tip of South America and a sea battle with an American Man of War and escaping by the skin of their teeth. Struck by......more

Goodreads review by Terry on August 31, 2020

I quite enjoyed this volume which while full of the expected sea chases and exotic locales, also had a few unexpected surprises for me. Things literally start off with a bang as the Surprise’s chase of the American frigate Franklin is interrupted by the eruption of an undersea volcano, causing havoc......more

Goodreads review by Dan on July 28, 2023

Still a great book, but I feel that this is the point where the quality of the series slightly decreased. O'Brian seems to run out of new material and ideas; and consequently he started to recycle old naval encounters, situations, and even jokes.......more

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