- Fiction, historical, Fiction, action & adventure, Sea stories, Aubrey, jack (fictitious character), fiction
First edition in Polish.
Fiction, historicalFiction, action & adventureSea storiesAubrey, jack (fictitious character), fictionMaturin, stephen (fictitious character), fictionGreat britain, fictionFiction, historical, generalJack Aubrey (Fictitious character)FictionStephen Maturin (Fictitious character)Naval HistoryShip captains
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Classical in form, earnest, cool and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Patrick O'Brian, Patrick Ob4brian
- First published
- January 2, 2001
- Pages
- 287
- Publisher
- Random House Audio, Chivers Press, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- Polish, French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780786175338
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Subjects
- Fiction, historical
- Fiction, action & adventure
- Sea stories
- Aubrey, jack (fictitious character), fiction
- Maturin, stephen (fictitious character), fiction
- Great britain, fiction
- Fiction, historical, general
- Jack Aubrey (Fictitious character)
- Fiction
- Stephen Maturin (Fictitious character)
- Naval History
- Ship captains
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“The West Indies squadron lay off Bridgetown, sheltered from the north-east tradewind and basking in the brilliant sun.”
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