Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales now 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. Patrick O'Brian is regarded by many as the greatest historical novelist now writing. Post Captain, the second novel in his remarkable Aubrey/Maturin series, led Mary Renault to write: 'Master and Commander raised dangerously high expectations; Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them.' ...
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Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales now 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. Patrick O'Brian is regarded by many as the greatest historical novelist now writing. Post Captain, the second novel in his remarkable Aubrey/Maturin series, led Mary Renault to write: 'Master and Commander raised dangerously high expectations; Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them.' This tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the Treaty of Amiens. He and his friend Stephen Maturin, surgeon and secret agent, begin to live the lives of country gentlemen, hunting, entertaining and enjoying more amorous adventures. Their comfortable existence, however, is cut short when Jack is overnight reduced to a pauper with enough debts to keep him in prison for life. He flees to the continent to seek refuge: instead he finds himself a hunted fugitive as Napoleon has ordered the internment of all Englishmen in France. Aubrey's adventures in escaping from France and the debtors' prison will grip the reader as fast as his unequalled actions at sea.
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1st edition. A near fine copy with very slight hint of fading at top and bottom edge. Very good indeed, lightly used, unclipped dust jacket with a curved tear at head of spine. No inscriptions, contents bright and clean. Blue-hued dust jacket shows Sophia and a mounted Jack in the foreground with a view down to the harbour.
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Very Good in Poor jacket. The jacket is marked and torn. The boards are a bit marked and bumped. Mild offsetting and minor damp marking. Soundly bound.
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F- in VG+ jacket. F-/VG+. 8vo. original pale blue boards gilt (endpapers neatly replaced, slight marks to boards) in dustwrapper priced £1.80 (some neat restoration); pp. i-vi, 7-414. A near fine copy. The second Aubrey-Maturin novel.
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Good to very good. 1st UK Edition. 414pp. Octavo. Original light blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Ends of spine are lightly bumped with some fading towards edges of boards; There is also a little bit of light staining to the front board and more so to the back board, with some mild rippling to the cloth. Clean, tight text block. In dust jacket, not price clipped; jacket is somewhat rubbed with some wear to edges in places. The jacket is wrinkled and wrippled on the back where it seems to have been affected by some moisture. A nice copy. good to very good A book in the Aubrey? aturin series of novels written by O'Brian, a celebrated English Author. The novels are set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centred on the friendship of English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish? atalan physician Stephen Maturin. The 20-novel series is known for its well-researched and highly detailed portrayal of early 19th-century life, as well as its authentic and evocative language.
This series , which is a group nautical historical novels (21 in all) is outstanding in it's depth, realism and characterization. It is a monumental work. Post Captain is the 2nd in the series (I'm now finishing number 4). I will say it is very hard going at first, due to the naval terminology. The first book I read with a dictionary, a glossary of nautical terms and a sailing manual. I'm so happy I worked through it as the study of the history as it added tremendous impact to the book. I even started sailing classes! Enjoy the book! But start with the 1st, which is Master and Commander.
Sam B
Aug 11, 2011
Not the first, but maybe the best
I have commented before on the excellence of these Captain Aubry-Doctor Maturin series of sea tales. This one, though, may be the best. If you can't start with the first in the series, or even if you did, don't miss this one. The characters are much more developed in this book so that the story stands alone about people anywhere rather than just people of the sea. Like Josepf Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" it's set on and in the sea, but transcends its location.
