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A first-rate tale of the sea.... I read it with absorption and satisfaction. --Robertson Davies"
Few, very few, books have made my heart thud with excitement. H.M.S. Surprise managed it. I read it cruising through the tame Adriatic, and several times found myself forced to pace about the deck to calm my pulse.... Patrick O'Brian's erudition is phenomenal, as is his capacity for creating another completely believable world. He convinces with his total accuracy even in tiny details. --Helen Lucy Burke"
Few, very few, books have made my heart thud with excitement. H.M.S. Surprise managed it. I read it cruising through the tame Adriatic, and several times found myself forced to pace about the deck to calm my pulse.... Patrick O'Brian's erudition is phenomenal, as is his capacity for creating another completely believable world. He convinces with his total accuracy even in tiny details. --Helen Lucy Burke"
I haven t read novels [in the past ten years] except for all of the Patrick O Brian series. It was, unfortunately, like tripping on heroin. I started on those books and couldn t stop.--E. O. Wilson"
Patrick O Brian is unquestionably the Homer of the Napoleonic wars.--James Hamilton-Paterson"
A first-rate tale of the sea.... I read it with absorption and satisfaction.--Robertson Davies
I haven't read novels [in the past ten years] except for all of the Patrick O'Brian series. It was, unfortunately, like tripping on heroin. I started on those books and couldn't stop.--E. O. Wilson
Patrick O'Brian is unquestionably the Homer of the Napoleonic wars.--James Hamilton-Paterson
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