Patrick O'Brian Livres

Jack Aubrey, capitaine de vaisseau de la Navy, reçoit le commandement de la frégate la "Surprise", avec pour mission de convoyer aux Indes un ambassadeur de Sa Majesté britannique. La route est apparemment simple : dérive Jusqu'aux côtes du Brésil, descente vers la pointe de l'Afrique avec passage des tempêtes sous le cap de Bonne-Espérance, puis remontée vers l'Asie. Pourtant, entre épidémie de scorbut, tornade, et mousson... Les aventures dramatiques se succèdent. L'expédition entraîne notre héros et son fidèle ami Maturin, médecin de bord, vers les paysages et les senteurs inhabituelles de l'Inde - où se nouent et se dénouent de nouvelles intrigues, sentimentales, diplomatiques et navales.

Nos deux héros Jack Aubrey, officier de la marine de Sa Majesté George III, et Stephen Maturin, médecin de bord, agent secret et de surcroît éleveur de rats et de fous de Bassan sont de retour. Cette fois, Napoléon vient de rompre la paix d'Amiens, et il s'agit de l'empêcher à tout prix de continuer à étendre son ombre sanglante sur l'Europe. Aubrey reçoit enfin le grade tant attendu de capitaine de vaisseau et un nouveau commandement. Mais quelle déception lorsqu'il découvre son bateau. La pénurie de navires qui frappe la Navy le contraint à prendre la barre d'un bâtiment indigne de naviguer, nanti du pire équipage que la mer ait porté. L'aventure promet d'être plus mouvementée que jamais !

Un salon de musique, en 1800. On y écoute le quatuor en ut majeur de Locatelli. L'un des auditeurs bat la mesure. Cela indispose son voisin, un jeune homme triste et pauvre, qui lui donne un coup de poing dans les côtes. L'affront doit être lavé. Ainsi, avec l'un de ces duels qui avaient déjà guidé d'Artagnan vers les Mousquetaires, naît une amitié hors du commun entre Jack Aubrey, lieutenant puis capitaine de la Royal Navy à l'époque des guerres napoléoniennes, et le Dr Stephen Maturin, chirurgien, ornithologue et agent secret de Sa Très Gracieuse Majesté. Réunis en un seul volume, les deux premiers tomes d'une oeuvre pleine de finesse et d'humour au succès mondial.

This five-volume set is an ideal gift for Patrick O'Brian fans, featuring the chapters of the unfinished novel he was working on before his death. It showcases the beloved Aubrey/Maturin series, celebrated for its continuous narrative and rich storytelling, making it a fitting tribute to O'Brian's literary legacy.

Jack Aubrey, a former sea-officer in the British Navy and still bitter about his court-martial, agrees to take command of his old ship, the Surprise, which was sold to Dr. Stephen Maturin, who obtained a letter of marque to the use the ship as a privateer.

Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionage—the province of his friend Stephen Maturin. Is Aubrey's humiliation and the threatened ruin of his career a deliberate plot? This dark tale is a fitting backdrop to the brilliant characterization and sparkling dialogue which O'Brian's readers have come to expect.

Jack Aubrey's long service is at last rewarded: he is promoted to thhe 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 Fench fleet set for Bantry Bay with a cargo of weapons for the disaffected among the Irish

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the fourteenth book in the series.

"The old master has us again in the palm of his hand." ― Los Angeles Times Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a peacetime navy. When the Surprise is nearly sunk on her way to South America―where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain―the delay occasioned by repairs reaps a harvest of strange consequences. The South American expedition is a desperate affair; and in the end Jack's bold initiative to strike at the vastly superior Spanish fleet precipitates a spectacular naval action that will determine both Chile's fate and his own.

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are being re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets to coincide with a new film based on the adventures and to introduce these modern classics to a new generation. It is still the War of 1812. Patrick O'Brian takes his hero Jack Aubrey and his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin on a voyage as fascinating as anything he has ever written. They set course across the South Atlantic to intercept a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. If they do not come up with her before she rounds the Horn, they must follow her into the Great South Sea and as far across the Pacific as she may lead them. It is a commission after Jack's own heart. Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence. Aubrey has to cope with a succession of disasters - men overboard, castaways, encounters with savages, storms, typhoons, groundings, shipwrecks, to say nothing of murder and criminal insanity. That the enemy is in fact faithfully dealt with, no one who has the honour of Captain Aubrey's acquaintance can take leave to doubt.