Book summaryThe British Navy is faced with Napoleon's escape from Elba and the "hundred days" until his final defeat at Waterloo in mid-1815. Aubrey and Maturin are in a race against time to intercept his forces before French aid arrives. Media reviews"[T]hese naval tales are blended into a larger panorama of Georgian society and politics, science, medicine, botany and the whole conspectus of contemporary Enlightenment knowledge about the natural world....Naval actions off the Adriatic coast, strenuous secret journeys into the interior North African wastes by Maturin and a decisive battle to seize a gold convoy attempting to run the Strait of Gibraltar are typical high points of this tale, though always interspersed with those special O'Brian features." |
HUNDRED DAYS, THEby O'Brian, PatrickComplete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed
Book desription: Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1998. NOT an ex library book. Clean interior pages. Dust jacket has 3/4" tear top rear by spine, no chips, price is not clipped.. Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Jacket Near Fine. 8 1/2".
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