- Literature and fiction, action and adventure, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, action & adventure, Sea stories
1st American ed.
Literature and fiction, action and adventureFiction, historical, generalFiction, action & adventureSea storiesAubrey, jack (fictitious character), fictionMaturin, stephen (fictitious character), fictionGreat britain, fictionFictionJack Aubrey (Fictitious character)Naval HistoryShip captainsShip physicians
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Classical in form, earnest, cool and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Patrick O'Brian
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 296
- Publisher
- Borders and Recorded Book Unabridged, Blackstone Audiobooks, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780393312447
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Subjects
- Literature and fiction, action and adventure
- Fiction, historical, general
- Fiction, action & adventure
- Sea stories
- Aubrey, jack (fictitious character), fiction
- Maturin, stephen (fictitious character), fiction
- Great britain, fiction
- Fiction
- Jack Aubrey (Fictitious character)
- Naval History
- Ship captains
- Ship physicians
First sentence
“A purple ocean, vast under the sky and devoid of all visible life apart from two minute ships racing across its immensity.”
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