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Good+/Good+. First Edition. fiction, ex-library usual stamps, slight spine lean, clean text. Seller Inventory # 007569
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Commodore
Publisher: Harper / Collins, 1994
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: Good+
Edition: First Edition
About this title
Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are to be re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets.
Jack Aubrey’s long service is at last rewarded: he is promoted to the rank of Commodore and given a squadron of ships to command. His mission is twofold – to make a large dent in the slave trade off the coast of Africa and, on his return, to intercept a French fleet set for Bantry Bay with a cargo of weapons for the disaffected among the Irish. Invention and surprise follow at every turn in this tale of nineteenth-century seamanship, as rich, as compelling, as masterly as any of its predecessors.
‘...full of the energy that comes from a writer having struck a vein... Patrick O’Brian is unquestionably the Homer of the Napoleonic wars.’
James Hamilton- Paterson
‘You are in for the treat of your lives. Thank God for Patrick O’Brian: his genius illuminates the literature of the English language, and lightens the lives of those who read him.’
Kevin Myers, Irish Times
‘One of the most brilliantly sustained pieces of historical fictional writing this century.’
James Teacher, Spectator
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