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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But, this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing frigate actions of their early days. When a sudden turn of events takes them off on a hazardous mission, they must depend on all of their seamanship skills and Jack's proverbial luck.

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This riveting collection of adventure writing includes the work of The Perfect Storm author, Sebastian Junger. Listen as men and women battle the elements, and often each other, to stay alive, confronting sharks, savage storms, rogue waves, mountainous icebergs, starvation, and their own fear and suffering.

Captain Jack Aubrey, RN, arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the navy. He and his friend, Stephen Maturin, take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen's past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance.

Jack Aubrey recibe órdenes de interceptar a los barcos estadounidenses que están acosando a los balleneros británicos en aguas americanas, lo que supone una doble misión: llevar a cabo una investigación al respecto y poner fin al problema mediante los métodos que considere más oportunos. Es probablemente, la mejor novela de la serie.

El verdadero amor. La decimoquinta entrega de la muy afirmada serie de novelas de Aubrey Maturin de Patrick O'Brian está en partes iguales de misterio, aventura y drama psicológico. Un ballenero británico ha sido capturado por un ambicioso jefe en las islas de sándwiches en la instigación francesa, y el capitán Aubrey, R. N., es enviado con la sorpresa para restaurar el orden. Pero guardada en el nivel de cable es una convicta fugada. Para los oficiales, Clarissa Harvill es objeto de torpes cortesías y celos peligrosos.

The climb that went wrong: fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound running low on food, water and oxygen; surviving broken bones and shattered spirits. With writing from Greg Child, David Roberts, Stephen Venables, Alfred Lansing and others, Epic is a collection of the most memorable accounts of legend-making expeditions to the world’s most famous peaks, often in the worst possible conditions!

Accompanied by his friend, ship’s surgeon and spy Stephen Maturin, Captain Jack Aubrey has returned home to England and the life of a country gentleman. But their comfortable experience is cut short when Jack is made a pauper overnight. He flees to the continent, narrowly escaping debtor’s prison, only to find himself a hunted fugitive from Napoleon’s regime as, yet again, war looms.

In their 16th outing, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a prize into the Great Southern Ocean. The story takes Maturin to South America. Caught up in a failed coup, he flees across the Andes. Aubrey makes a desperate voyage in a open boat, but both survive and are reunited.

When he was fourteen years old and beset by chronic ill health, Patrick O'Brian began creating his first fictional character. Caesar tells the picaresque, enchanting, and quite bloodthirsty story of a creature whose father is a giant panda and whose mother is a snow leopard. Through the eyes and voice of this fabulous creature, we learn of his life as a cub, his first hunting exploits, his first encounters with man, his capture and taming.

A British whaler has been captured in the Friendly Isles, and Captain Jack Aubrey is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But a female convict who escaped from the penal colony in New South Wales has stowed away in the cable-tier. To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies...

As in The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore tells the tale of another ill-fated ship on Anson’s expedition round the world – the Wager. Parted from her squadron in the fearful storms off Cape Horn, the Wager struggles on alone up the ironbound coast of Chile, before she is driven onto rocks and sinks. The survivors include Jack Byron, a midshipman, and his eccentric protégé Toby, an alarmingly naive surgeon’s mate with a single-minded devotion to zoology.

Jack Aubrey får til opgave at sejle en britisk ambassadør til Indien på fregatten H.M.S. Surprise, og sammen med sin ven og makker, Stephen Maturin, begiver han sig ud på den lange rejse, der skal gå rundt om Afrikas sydspids. Undervejs støder de både på orkaner og fjendtlige franskmænd, som må overvindes, før de kan komme til at opleve orientens fremmedartede syner og dufte på nært hold. "Meget, meget få bøger har fået mit hjerte til at hamre af spænding. ‘H.M.S. Surprise‘ gjorde det.

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attention of two privateers soon becomes menacing.

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Leutnant, später Kapitänleutnant Jack Aubrey, Seemann und Offizier, der das Befehlen gewohnt ist und Dr. Stephen Maturin, der schmächtige Zweifler und Kritiker mit sozialem Gewissen, lernen sich auf Menorca kennen. Sie spielen Geige und Cello, was sie verbindet. Es entwickelt sich trotz aller Gegensätzlichkeit Achtung und schließlich Freundschaft - die auch Streitereien und Meinungsverschiedenheiten überdauert. Gewürzt ist das alles mit feinem britischen Humor.

El título no se escoge al azar. "La fragata Surprise" narra sobre todo la vida en un barco, los lazos de unión, de solidaridad y de amistad que van estableciéndose a bordo de una nave y cómo éstos vínculos hacen que el barco acabe por cobrar vida propia y sea capaz de superar las adversidades más terribles.

Following a daring rescue, Jack Aubrey accepts a new command and a new commission to a far-flung destination. Ahead of him and his crew are the new sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and the terrifying hazards of an archipelago of islands in the East Indies, where their French enemies have near overwhelming superiority.

Ordered home by despatch vessel, Captain Jack Aubrey and ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin have been tasked with bringing the news of the latest victory in the war with America back to the government in Britain. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought upon the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attentions of two privateers who pursue their ship soon become menacing.

El capitán Jack Aubrey está en tierra con medio sueldo sin mando, hasta que Stephen Maturin llega con órdenes secretas para que Aubrey lleve una fragata al Cabo de buena Esperanza bajo el banderín de un comodoro, allí para montar una expedición contra las islas francesas de Mauricio y La Reunión. Pero las dificultades para llevar a cabo sus órdenes se agravan por dos de sus propios capitanes: Lord Clonfert, un diletante que busca placer, y el capitán Corbett, cuya severidad empuja a su tripulación al borde del motín.

Most people associate storms and other big weather with death - with the kind of force that makes each of us wonder about life, time, and the nature of our surroundings. The stories in Storm have more to say than that. Deep Blue offers compelling tales of shipwrecks and salvage, submarine adventure and free diving, nautical survival and cannibalism.

El capitán Jack Aubrey, R. N., llega a las Indias Orientales Holandesas para encontrarse a sí mismo nombrado al mando de la fragata más rápida y mejor armada de la Armada. Él y su amigo Stephen Maturin toman el paso a Inglaterra en un barco de despacho. Pero la Guerra de 1812 estalla mientras están en camino. Las acciones sangrientas los precipitan en escenas nuevas e inesperadas donde las actividades pasadas de Stephen como agente secreto regresan sobre él con una venganza.