Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Far Side of the World
    The Far Side of the World
    The Far Side of the World
    Audiobook14 hours

    The Far Side of the World

    Written by Patrick O'Brian

    Narrated by Patrick Tull

    4.5/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    The South Seas are a paradise for battle-weary Captain Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin. But their peace is disturbed when Stephen's fancy for a peculiar marine organism lands him overboard. Acting in his usual headstrong fashion, Jack dives in to the rescue, unfortunately failing to plan what will happen once they are both in the water watching the sails of the Surprise disappear in the mist.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 11, 2008
    ISBN9781501984204
    The Far Side of the World
    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.

    More audiobooks from Patrick O'brian

    Related to The Far Side of the World

    Titles in the series (41)

    View More
    View More

    Related audiobooks

    Historical Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Taken By Surprise

      Oct 16, 2018

      Taken By Surprise
      5 min read

    • Article

      Cooking with Patrick O’Brian

      Feb 15, 2019

      Cooking with Patrick O’Brian
      11 min read

    • Article

      Taken By Surprise

      Jan 17, 2018

      Taken By Surprise
      5 min read

    • Article

      Toasting Trafalgar

      Sep 19, 2019

      Toasting Trafalgar
      5 min read

    • Article

      What Doomed The Mary Rose?

      Sep 29, 2022

      What Doomed The Mary Rose?
      11 min read

    • Article

      The Monarch Of All I Survey

      Nov 22, 2019

      The Monarch Of All I Survey
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Greatest Escape

      May 5, 2021

      The Greatest Escape
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Armada Victory – The Truth

      Jun 29, 2022

      So many myths and stories have attached themselves to the Spanish Armada, like barnacles to the hull of a galley, that we feel we know it almost by association. The whole tale may be hazy in our minds, but there are flashes. The Armada is a portrait

      3 min read

    • Article

      Chartroom

      Oct 27, 2023

      Chartroom
      5 min read

    • Article

      Secrets Of The mary Rose

      Jun 8, 2023

      Secrets Of The mary Rose
      13 min read

    • Article

      At War In nelson’s Navy

      Jun 9, 2022

      At War In nelson’s Navy
      10 min read

    • Article

      Love Many, Trust Few…

      Mar 10, 2023

      Love Many, Trust Few…
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Battle of Valcour

      Jun 24, 2021

      The Battle of Valcour
      9 min read

    • Article

      The Errors Of The Deep

      Oct 3, 2019

      Flotsam and jetsam Sam Llewellyn writes nautical thrillers and edits The Marine Quarterly. He is currently patching up a 30ft ketch There we are off the West Coast, sailing along, on a dead run. Gybe-oh, and clang, across comes the boom. The crew, wh

      3 min read

    • Article

      Chartroom

      Dec 20, 2022

      Further to the great square-rigger Preussen and her loss (SM, Sept 2022), with Peking now back in her home port of Hamburg, perhaps it is opportune to mention another of the Flying P sailing ships, the great Preussen. A five-masted full-rigged ship,

      6 min read

    • Article

      Showdown On Lake Erie

      Jan 4, 2022

      Showdown On Lake Erie
      8 min read

    • Article

      Bane Of The ‘Sea Wolf’

      Sep 28, 2021

      Bane Of The ‘Sea Wolf’
      12 min read

    • Article

      Ships Mail

      May 27, 2022

      Ships Mail
      5 min read

    • Article

      Aussie Spirit

      Nov 10, 2023

      Walter Marks, Commodore of the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club in Sydney, was a high powered influencer: pre-war, he was working on three major schemes to raise the profile of Australian yacht racing. The first involved negotiating for an ‘Ocean Race’

      7 min read

    • Article

      Ships Mail

      Jun 24, 2022

      Having travelled from the UK to Spain on the cruise ferry Cap Finistère (Portsmouth) and Pont-Aven (Plymouth) many times, I have been following Galicia and Salamanca (SM, May) with interest. Compared to Cap Finistère, the new ships are larger, carryi

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Tudor Time Capsule

      Jul 7, 2023

      The Tudor Time Capsule
      4 min read

    • Article

      Shipping Forecast Thames

      Feb 24, 2023

      Shipping Forecast Thames
      5 min read

    • Article

      Could The Navy Save The Falklands Today?

      Feb 9, 2022

      Britain’s relations with France are supposed to be at their lowest ebb since Waterloo, or maybe Agincourt. So we should be grateful that a recent ceremony between the Royal Navy and their French counterparts went off peacefully. On 11th January, in t

      3 min read

    • Article

      An Ear For Trouble

      Mar 5, 2019

      An Ear For Trouble
      9 min read

    • Article

      A Round-up Of The Latest BOOKS

      Feb 12, 2021

      BY AYLWARD EDWARD DINGLE One of the more obscure sailing classics out there but worth a read if you can get hold of a copy. The is the ‘autobiography’ of the wonderfully named Aylward Dingle, journalist and sailor who, after much adventure (misadvent

      4 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Far Side of the World

    4.5/5

    24 ratings4 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      A great read and a real page turner
    • 4/5
      Ex-FBI agent Pender is tired of golf after just four months of retirement when an old police friend asks for his help to solve a series of murders in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Until then, the fictional island of St. Luke didn't even know they had a serial killer on their hands. When a hurricane unearthed two bodies with missing right hands, just like a girl who was found two years previously, the police track the killer but don't inform the public.Husband and wife anthropologist team Phil and Emily Epp are weird serial killers. While spending time with a culture that believed a person could absorb a person's soul by sucking in their dying breath, Emily accidentally inhales a tribal leader's last breath. She and Phil, along with the tribal leader's son, go on a rampage, stealing dying breaths to prolong their own lives.There are several other plots intertwined in the story. The number of characters introduced at the beginning of the novel is a little overwhelming, but get easier to differentiate as the book goes on. Dion Graham does an excellent job with narration and various island accents.The library had taped a note to the cover stating, "This audiobook contains a great deal of graphic description and language." I didn't think anything of it because I've read plenty of graphic descriptions. However, on disk 2 a sex scene made me stop what I was doing and stare at the player! That set the bar and nothing else surprised me. But if you're squeamish, you might want to pass on this one.
    • 3/5
      Jonathan Nasaw is the author of Fear Itself and The Girls He Adored. Twenty-Seven Bones is the first book I’ve read of Nasaw’s. I, reading books from authors I’ve never read anything by before, seems to be happening a lot lately. I’m not sure why. But you never know what you might discover by expanding your horizons. So-to-speak.Anyway, back to the review. A good suspense/thriller keeps you wanting to read, on and on. I found this book to slow down every third or fourth chapter. This was very frustrating, because it was hard to get back into the book, after the slow periods. The characters were extremely well developed. Maybe, and I don’t say this to often, a little to developed. The book was not lacking detail, that’s for sure. So it’s no wonder it was 423 pages. The main thing, I liked about the book was the plot. It was different. Sure I’ve read serial killer books before, but I’m talking the whole religion/customs/voodoo, whatever you want to call it, surrounding the killers. Why they did, what they did.I am a huge fan of the Pendergast Series, written by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Twenty-Seven Bones was very similar to something Preston and Child would write
    • 5/5
      FBI Special Agent E.L. Pender has big retirement plans - to play as much golf as he can stand. Turns out he can stand a lot, which is why he jumps at the chance to track down a killer.