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The Wine-Dark Sea
The Wine-Dark Sea
The Wine-Dark Sea
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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.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 10, 2008
ISBN9781501992582
The Wine-Dark Sea
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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 stars
    5/5
    Greatbook.
    Great narration. You can't go wrong with Patrick O'Brian read by Patrick Tull.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    wonderful 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.