Patrick O'Brian, Author W. W. Norton & Company $14.95 (379p) ISBN 978-0-393-30761-0
This long-out-of-print naval adventure in the series that started with Master and Commander (see The Mauritius Command below) finds Captain Jack Aubrey in charge of the H.M.S. Surprise. His ship's surgeon and friend, Stephen Maturin, sidelines in...
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Patrick O'Brian, Author W. W. Norton & Company $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-393-03859-0
O'Brian's loyal following for the Aubrey/Maturin historical nautical adventure novels (The Wine-Dark Sea, etc.) has swelled from a cult to a legion of readers; thus there are many who will welcome this predecessor to that well-received series....
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Patrick O'Brian, Author W. W. Norton & Company $22 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-03685-5
Relentlessly detailed exposition and naturalistic description are the strengths of British novelist O'Brian, esteemed for his Aubrey/Maturin nautical adventure historicals ( Master and Commander ; Post Captain ). The author's rather monochromatic...
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Patrick O'Brian, Author W. W. Norton & Company $13.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-393-31459-5
This 17th installment in O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series of historical naval tales spent two weeks on PW's bestseller list. (Apr.)
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Patrick O'Brian, Author W. W. Norton & Company $14.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-393-31704-6
The 18th volume in the Aubrey/Maturin historical adventure series ""is splendid storytelling from a true master,"" said PW in a starred review. (Sept.)
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Patrick O'Brian, Author W. W. Norton & Company $14.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-393-31016-0
This entry in O'Brian's late-18th-century seafaring series will delight fans, while offering newcomers a good place to jump in. Here Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are assigned to help a Polynesian queen in her struggle with a Napoleon-backed rival,
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Patrick O'Brian, Author W. W. Norton & Company $14.95 (367p) ISBN 978-0-393-30821-1
This entry in the Aubrey/Maturin series (see above review of The Surgeon's Mate ) finds Captain Jack Aubrey ``shoved into a temporary command in that rotten old Worcester ,'' a poorly built ship. Worse, he's off to the Mediterranean to join the...
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Patrick O'Brian, Author W. W. Norton & Company $14.95 (382p) ISBN 978-0-393-30820-4
O'Brian's superb series on the early-19th-century adventures of Jack Aubrey, a Royal Navy officer, and his friend Stephen Maturin, Navy surgeon and naturalist, continues with a look at the darker side of Maturin's life: his work in British...
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Patrick O'Brian, Author W. W. Norton & Company $24.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-393-06187-1
Loyal fans of the prolific O'Brian may welcome the opportunity to round out their collections with this first American edition of his 1962 novel about a bohemian artist in 1930s England, but those anticipating a rollicking yarn in the tradition of...
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Patrick O'Brian, Author David R. Godine Publisher $29.95 (328p) ISBN 978-0-87923-930-5
In this bustling and arty portrait, English biographer O'Brian, author of the Aubrey-Maturin historical seafaring series, depicts naturalist and explorer Joseph Banks (1743-1820) as a man of unflagging energy and intellectual curiosity. Banks...
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Patrick O'Brian, Author W. W. Norton & Company $20.95 (222p) ISBN 978-0-393-03483-7
This early (1952) novel from the author of the scintillating Aubrey/Maturin novels ( The Truelove et al.) is very different from that seafaring series. For one thing, not much happens: Joseph Aubrey Pugh, university don and elliptical narrator of...
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Patrick O'Brian, Author W. W. Norton & Company $14.95 (348p) ISBN 978-0-393-30762-7
This initiates the reissue (see H.M.S. Surprise above) of O'Brian's long-out-of-print novels, set in Napoleonic-era England, about the unlikely pair, Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin. Aubrey is a strapping blond man of action; Maturin,...
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Patrick O'Brian, Author W.W. Norton & Company, Inc $24 (261p) ISBN 978-0-393-04844-5
With bittersweet pleasure, readers may deem this 20th--and possibly final--installment in O'Brian's highly regarded series featuring Capt. Jack Aubrey of the English Royal Navy and Stephen Maturin, ship's doctor, the best of the lot. Post-Waterloo,...
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Patrick O'Brian, Author W.W. Norton & Company, Inc $24 (280p) ISBN 978-0-393-04674-8
The Aubrey-Maturin series (The Commodore, etc.) nears the two dozen mark the way it began, with colorful historical background, smooth plotting, marvelous characters and great style. The title refers to Napoleon's escape from Elba and brief return...
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Patrick O'Brian, Author W.W. Norton & Company, Inc $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-393-04044-9
As befits a popular and enduring fictional hero, Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy is besieged on all sides in the 18th installment of O'Brian's splendid 19th-century historical adventure series (The Commodore, etc.). Jack is fighting expensive,
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Patrick O'Brian, Author W.W. Norton & Company, Inc $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-03760-9
Having spent 16 previous volumes so wonderfully delineating his pair of 18th-century heroes, Captain Jack Aubrey and physician/secret agent Stephen Maturin, and the world in which they live, O'Brian apparently feels that series fans will be...
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Patrick O'Brian, Author . Norton $25.95 (269p) ISBN 978-0-393-06473-5
This stand-alone adventure novel from O'Brian (1914–2000) saw British publication in 1954, before the Aubrey/Maturin historicals that made his name. In the years before WWII, the teenage Derrick, orphaned by his missionary parents, sails...
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Patrick O'Brian, Author W. W. Norton & Company $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-03630-5
Originally published in 1956, this is O'Brian's first novel of the sea. But it is more than just a curiosity from the author of the 16 wonderful Aubrey/Maturin books, most recently The Wine-Dark Sea ; it can stand on its own as an entertaining and...
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This novel, the ninth installment of 20 in what is certainly the greatest series about the British Navy ever written—indeed, one of the most successful of its magnitude ever written in any genre—is not well served by its reader. Royal
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Patrick O'Brian, Author, Morgan Pierpont, Author, Ruth S. Kraemer, Translator W. W. Norton & Company $59.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-393-03994-8
The lives of the 16th-century Caribbean's indigenous people, as well as its flora and fauna, were captured on paper by French Huguenots who perhaps sailed with Sir Francis Drake. A sumptuous facsimile edition of Histoire Naturelle des indes: The...
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Patrick O'Brian, Author, Richard Snow, Afterword by , afterword by Richard Snow. Norton $21.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-393-06025-6
For Aubrey/Maturin addicts, there could be no better gift: a new, albeit incomplete, story with freshly piquant details, wry humor and salty nautical action. Although the official word was that O'Brian had finished the series with 1999's...
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Patrick O'Brian, Author, Simon Vance, Read by Blackstone Audiobooks $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4332-0655-9
Years before a top sailor named Jack Aubrey, rising through the ranks of the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, joined forces with his best friend-an Irish-Spanish doctor, naturalist and spy called Stephen Maturin-to make the seas safe and...
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Patrick O'Brian, Author, Simon Vance, Read by , read by Simon Vance. Blackstone Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7861-6649-7
Unlike its competitors, who are usually linked to major book publishers, Blackstone specializes in giving new audio life to classics—using prize-winning readers like Vance to bring new and exciting life to neglected works. This is Vance's...
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Patrick O'Brian, Author, Geoff Hunt, Photographer W. W. Norton & Company $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-393-03558-2
Though the Jack Aubrey-Stephen Maturin books can be profitably read separately, as fans know, together they read as one long, wonderful novel. This 16th installment (following The Truelove ) is no doubt the best chapter yet. In the early 1800s,...
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Patrick O'Brian, Author, Geoff Hunt, Photographer W. W. Norton & Company $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-393-03032-7
Readers will welcome the reappearance here of elegant Stephen Maturin, one hero of O'Brian's excellent 19th-century seafarer series. Maturin is a ship's doctor, naturalist, spy, musician, ex-opium eater and, we're reminded here, terrific swordsman....
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Patrick O'Brian, Author, Geoff Hunt, Photographer W. W. Norton & Company $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-393-02974-1
The 18th in O'Brian's Jack Aubrey series will please current fans and likely make new ones. Newly rich Aubrey ( The Letter of Marque ), again a Royal Navy captain and even a ``rotten-borough'' M.P., is given command of the frigate Diane with orders...
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Patrick O'Brian, Author, Geoff Hunt, Photographer W. W. Norton & Company $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-02874-4
If Jane Austen wrote Royal Navy yarns, they might read like this sequel to Master and Commander and Post Captain (which Norton issues in paperback in August). In the early 1800s, Captain Jack Aubrey, unjustly drummed out of service, is now master of
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Patrick O'Brian, Author, Arthur Cunningham, Editor W. W. Norton & Company $40 (184p) ISBN 978-0-393-03626-8
This lively collection, which grew out of a project by the British Library's head of publications Cunningham to compile bibliographies and biographical information on distinguished living authors, is sure to be sought-after by the fast-growing...
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Patrick O'Brien, Author, Patrick O'Brian, Author W. W. Norton & Company $13.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-393-31316-1
A former Oxford professor retreats to a small Welsh community only to become ill and fall in love with the farmer's wife who nurses him back to health. (July)
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