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The Wine-Dark Sea
Written by Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by Patrick Tull
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Large in body and spirit, Jack Aubrey throws his heavy frame up mainmasts as if he were a boy of ten. Tendentiously traditional, Aubrey spends his evenings with ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin, a brilliant naturalist and occasional spy for the British government. In the quiet of Aubrey’s cabin, the two work on their Corelli; after numerous voyages their friendship has mellowed into a touching, if occasionally tempestuous, marriage.
Devotees can expect a number of spectacular battle scenes, shipboard jests, and the historical mimicry for which O’Brian is so famous. Maturin’s efforts to persuade Peruvians to revolt against the Spanish crown will send him on a perilous journey across the Andes, while Aubrey will be reunited briefly with his illegitimate black son, and suffer dreadfully under the blustery politics of a Rousseauian.
This audiobook includes an exclusive afterword with the author.
Devotees can expect a number of spectacular battle scenes, shipboard jests, and the historical mimicry for which O’Brian is so famous. Maturin’s efforts to persuade Peruvians to revolt against the Spanish crown will send him on a perilous journey across the Andes, while Aubrey will be reunited briefly with his illegitimate black son, and suffer dreadfully under the blustery politics of a Rousseauian.
This audiobook includes an exclusive afterword with the author.
Author
Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O’Brian (1914-2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist, biographer and translator from French. His translations include Henri Charrière’s Papillon, Jean Lacouture’s biography of Charles de Gaulle and many of Simone de Beauvoir’s later works, including Les Belles Images, All Said and Done and A Very Easy Death.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Greatbook.
Great narration. You can't go wrong with Patrick O'Brian read by Patrick Tull. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5wonderful story. Just what ive cone to expect for the series. There was however an I terminably long section where the good Dr. crosses some mountains, by donkey, and looks at birds and such, quite too much of that in this book. I almost had to abandon the whole enterprise it as it seemed his boring journey would never end. It did end though, thankfully.