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Language: en
Pages: 302
Pages: 302
Type: BOOK - Published: 1956 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Commodore (late Admiral) Anson's fatefaul circumnavigation of the globe in 1740, wherein Anson and his men encounter disaster, disease, and astonishing success,
Language: en
Pages: 313
Pages: 313
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-31 - Publisher: HarperCollins UK
The first novel Patrick O’Brian ever wrote about the sea – and the precursor to the famous Aubrey-Maturin series.
Language: en
Pages: 286
Pages: 286
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-10 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
In the mid-eighteenth century, Peter Palafox, the son of a poor Irish parson, signs on a ship as a midshipman, just in time for Anson's epic circumnavigation of
Language: en
Pages: 344
Pages: 344
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
"The finest writer of sea-stories in the English language."--J. de Courcy Ireland
Language: en
Pages: 280
Pages: 280
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
At the outset of an adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a prize through the stormy seas and icebergs south of Cap