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  • Master and Commander

    Series Book 1 - Aubrey/Maturin Novels
    The classic first novel of the epic Aubrey/Maturin series, widely considered “the best historical novels ever written” (Richard Snow, New York Times).Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as commander: the fourteen-gun ship HMS Sophie. Meanwhile—after a heated first encounter that nearly comes to a duel—Aubrey and a brilliant but down-on ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Golden Ocean

    The first novel Patrick O'Brian ever wrote about the sea, a precursor to the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series.In the year 1740, Commodore (later Admiral) George Anson embarked on a voyage that would become one of the most famous exploits in British naval history. Sailing through poorly charted waters, Anson and his men encountered disaster, disease, and astonishing success. They circumnavigated the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Unknown Shore

    An immediate precursor to Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series, displaying all the splendid prose and attention to detail that O'Brian's readers expect.Patrick O'Brian's first novel about the sea, The Golden Ocean, took inspiration from Commodore George Anson's fateful circumnavigation of the globe in 1740. In The Unknown Shore, O'Brian returns to this rich source and mines it ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Men-of-War

    Life in Nelson’s Navy

    Out of print for many years, this is a brand new edition of the definitive companion to the acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series of novels, written by the author himself.What was daily life in Nelson's navy really like, for everyone from the captain down to the rawest recruit? What did they eat? What songs did they sing? What was the schedule of watches? How were the officers and crew paid, and what ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels

    “The best historical novels ever written.”—Richard Snow, New York Times Book ReviewPatrick O’Brian’s twenty-one-volume Aubrey/Maturin series has delighted generations of devoted fans, inspired a blockbuster film, and sold millions of copies in twenty-four languages. These five omnibus volumes, beautifully produced and boxed, contain 7,000 pages of what has often been described as a single, ... Read more

    $201.99 USD

  • The Hundred Days

    Series Book 19 - Aubrey/Maturin Novels
    "One of the best novelists since Jane Austen…The Hundred Days may be the best installment yet." —Philadelphia InquirerNapoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead the French armies to triumph at Waterloo. In the Balkans, preparing a thrust ... Read more

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  • The Road to Samarcand

    An Adventure

    O'Brian's richly told adventure saga, with its muscular prose, supple dialogue and engaging characters, packs a nice old-school punch." --Publishers WeeklyThis story begins where Patrick O'Brian's devoted fans would want it to, with a sloop in the South China Sea barely surviving a killer typhoon. The time is the 1930s and the protagonist a teenaged American boy whose missionary parents have just ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • H. M. S. Surprise

    Series Book 3 - Aubrey/Maturin Novels
    "Few, very few books have made my heart thud with excitement. H.M.S. Surprise managed it." —Helen Lucy Burke, Irish PressIn H.M.S. Surprise, British naval officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin face near-death and tumultuous romance in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Tasked with ferrying a British ambassador to the Sultan of Kampong, they find ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Testimonies

    "A welcome reissue of O'Brian's moving and very fine first novel."—Kirkus ReviewsDelmore Schwartz, the most influential critic in postwar America, wrote of Patrick O'Brian's first novel Testimonies: "A triumph...drawn forward by lyric eloquence and the story's fascination, [the reader] discovers in the end that he has encountered in a new way the sphinx and the riddle of existence itself." ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Fortune of War

    Series Book 6 - Aubrey/Maturin Novels
    "A marvelously full-flavored, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat." —Times Literary SupplementCaptain Jack Aubrey arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the British Navy. He and his friend, surgeon Stephen Maturin, take passage for England in a ... Read more

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  • The Surgeon's Mate

    Series Book 7 - Aubrey/Maturin Novels
    "It has been said that this series is some of the finest historical fiction of our time....Aubrey and Maturin have been described as better than Holmes and Watson, the equal of Quixote and Panza....All this is true. And the marvel is, it hardly says enough."—John Balzar, Los Angeles TimesBritish naval officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin, with his great love, Diana Villiers, speed home ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Blue at the Mizzen

    Series Book 20 - Aubrey/Maturin Novels
    "The old master has us again in the palm of his hand." —Los Angeles TimesNapoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a peacetime navy. When the Surprise is nearly sunk on her way to South America—where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert ... Read more

    $11.99 USD