- Ship captains, Ship physicians, Fiction, Jack Aubrey (Fictitious character)
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Classical in form, cool, earnest and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Patrick O'Brian
- First published
- May 1, 2006
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Norton & Company Limited, W. W., HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Blackstone Audiobooks
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780007429394
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“In spite of the hurry, many wives and many sweethearts had come to see the ship off, and those members of her company who were not taken up with sailing her on her difficult course close-hauled to the brisk south-east breeze, watched the white flutter of their handkerchiefs far across the water until Black Point hid them entirely, shut them right out.”
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