The second book Patrick O'Brian wrote about the sea and a brilliant sequel to The Golden Ocean. 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 prot???g??? Toby, an alarmingly naive surgeon ...
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The second book Patrick O'Brian wrote about the sea and a brilliant sequel to The Golden Ocean. 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 prot???g??? Toby, an alarmingly naive surgeon's mate with a single-minded devotion to zoology. Faced with a surplus of rum, a disappearing stock of food, and a hard, detested captain, the survivors soon descend into trouble of every kind, including drunkeness, mutiny and bloodshed. As they make their way northwards under the guidance of a band of stony and depraved Indians, they at last find safety and good treatment in Valparaiso. Admirers of O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels will see in Jack Byron a matter-of-fact, bluff precursor to the great Jack Aubrey. Whilst Toby, raging in Greek against a corrupt Member of Parliament, stripped by thieves in the Farthing Pie House, asking the Commodore to carry his snake, arousing the darkest suspicions in the Chilean Inquisition, is an amiable companion whose vagaries afford endless diversion on a hard and dramatic journey.
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Fine book in a fine dust jacket. 320 pages. First American Edition. Historical sea adventure novel written by O Brian as an immediate precursor to his Aubrey/Maturin series. The British first was published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London, in 1959. Fine in fine dustjacket.
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NEW CONDITION. NEW DUST JACKET. //NO REMAINDER MARK//NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKS OF ANY KIND (no names or inscriptions, no bookplate, no underlining, etc) //NOT PRICECLIPPED// NEW MYLAR COVER//
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Very Good in Good jacket. The jacket is a bit rubbed and edgeworn but has suffered minimal paper loss. Unfortunately a previous owner elected to 'restore' the faded spine panel by using a felt tipped pen to colour it. Library markings; otherwise internally clean and tightly bound.
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Very good. 1st edition. 256pp. Very clean crisp solid copy in a clean priced 15 shillings dust jacket, slight fading to spine of dust jacket. very good.
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Fine in Fine- jacket. First Impression of this forerunner of the Jack Aubrey series. 8vo: 256pp. Fine publisher's red cloth, spine lettered in black; about Fine (lightly rubbed with no loss) first-state dust jacket, priced 15s, without a trace of fading to spine panel and very uncommon thus. Cunningham A7a. One of two historical novels O'Brian wrote for juveniles. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).