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Blue at the Mizzen
Written by Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by Patrick Tull
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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With his swashbuckling adventures, best-selling novelist Patrick O'Brian transports you to the high seas of old where privateers lurk in the mist, and great ships fight to control the waterways. Blue at the Mizzen hoists the excitement to new heights as British frigate commander Jack Aubrey stakes everything on a desperate raid against the mighty Spanish fleet. Ever since Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo, Captain Aubrey's prospects in the new peacetime navy have looked dim. Even worse, his frigate Surprise was badly damaged in a nighttime collision. While Aubrey waits for repairs, ship's doctor Stephen Maturin brings him intriguing information about the New World. Soon Aubrey is leading a bold expedition that will determine the fate of a rising South American nation - and his own. Critically-acclaimed author Patrick O'Brian blends authentic period atmosphere, rich humor, and elegant language in each of his seafaring yarns. You can almost hear the thunder of the waves and smell the salty sea air as you listen to Patrick Tull's dramatic performance.
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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 stars5/5A ship in a bottle, Charles McGrath called this world, accurately—a hermetically sealed miniature, not entirely unlike Dr Seuss’s Whoville. Blue at the Mizzen culminates Aubrey’s quest for flag rank and as such brings the whole series, though not Aubrey’s domestic life, to fulfillment. The series and the book are pleasant, humane, and endlessly entertaining, teasing with glimpses of real human drama but always reverting to a comfortable outcome more or less quickly. The work has been compared to Austen, but I think that’s not right. O’Brian’s achievement is different, and suffers unfairly in comparison to Austen’s, which does enact the drama of life. I think Bertie Wooster and Jeeves make a better comparison.
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