by Patrick O'Brian
As always, a great sea-tale from O'Brien. This time, off to America. Funnier than most all the other books in the series. Intrigues with the French, the Americans, and some time spent in Boston.
In which Maturin and Aubrey become prisoners of war of the newly formed United States, both are suspected of being spies, and Diana Villers is back. Daring escapes! Love affairs! Cold blooded murders! And of course, exciting ship battles!It's a bit odd to see the early US from a British POV, esp...
I sang praises to those series already and more than once, but each book continues to astonish me more and more. O'Brian mostly talks about real naval battles, while managing to weave in the adventures of Jack Aubrey and Steven Maturin. I was sort of amused while reading this book, because here we s...
How much do I love these books? Let me count the ways...so far, we're up to six. Six splendiferous volumes of early 19th century seafaring goodness! By the sixth of this series of twenty, I was fully enamored of the characters, the story, the writing - the whole kit and kaboodle! This is my third or...
The sixth Aubry/Maturin — and they keep getting better and better, Brian finds the two friends prisoners of the Americans, the War of 1812 having begun. And not auspiciously for the British. The Americans with a completely volunteer navy (no press gangs for them) have been more than competently tr...
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