The Wine-Dark Sea Hardcover - 1993
by Patrick O'Brian
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- Hardcover
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 Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted.
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Details
- Title The Wine-Dark Sea
- Author Patrick O'Brian
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., New York
- Date 1993
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0393035581I3N01
- ISBN 9780393035582 / 0393035581
- Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.83 x 1 in (21.59 x 14.81 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Sea stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93001521
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a heavy American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean water reminds Stephen of Homer's famous description, but it also portends a spectacular submarine volcanic eruption that will create a new island overnight and leave an indelible impression on the reader's imagination. Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen's mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America. Jack will survive a desperate open-boat journey and come face to face with his illegitimate black son; Stephen, caught up in the aftermath of his failed coup, will flee for his life into the high, frozen wastes of the Andes; and Patrick O'Brian's brilliantly detailed narrative will reunite them at last in a breathtaking chase through storm seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted. This is storytelling without models or equals in recent literature; critics have noted in O'Brian's great Aubrey/Maturin epic, now sixteen volumes in length, haunting echoes of such writers as Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, and Jane Austen. Some readers will respond to the undeniable excitement of the chases, storms, and battles, others to the precision of language, or the humor, or the wealth of erudition in Maturin's researches and conversations. But the truest mark of O'Brian's stature as a novelist may be the great number of readers who find fresh delights and deeper resonances in rereading his novels.
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Citations
- Booklist, 10/01/1993, Page 254
- Library Journal, 10/15/1993, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 08/30/1993, Page 0