The Surgeon’s Mate: Book 7 (Aubrey-Maturin)
Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written.
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by despatch 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 attentions of two privateers soon become menacing.
The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is as thrilling, as tense and as unexpected in its culmination as anything Patrick O’Brian has written. Then, among other things, follows a shipwreck and a particularly sinister internment in the notorious Temple Prison in Paris. Once again, the tigerish and fascinating Diana Villiers redresses the balance in this man’s world of seamanship and war.
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“stirring stuff... Hearty Robert Hardy reads with gusto and obvious enjoyment.”
Literary Review February 1998
'I never enjoyed a novel about the sea more. It is not only that the author describes the handling of a ship of 1800 with an accuracy that is as comprehensible as it is detailed, a remarkable feat in itself. Mr O'Brian's three chief characters are drawn with no less depth of sympathy than the vessels he describes, a rare achievement save in the greatest writers of this genre. It deserves the widest readership.' Irish Times
The seventh book in the Aubrey/Maturin series.
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0001054716
- ISBN 13 9780001054714
- BindingAudio Cassette
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