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'A more exhilarating series of snapshots into marine adventures in an age of exploration would be hard to imagine' DAILY MAIL 'This anthology of salty yarns laid the foundations for the... Aubrey-Maturin cycle. Splendidly transporting' INDEPENDENT

Praise for Patrick O'Brian's fiction: 'Patrick O'Brian is one of the most compelling and brilliant novelists of his time with a huge and dedicated band of admirers in all manner of places. Beyond his superbly elegant writing, wit and originality, he showed an understanding of the nature of a floating world at the mercy of the wind and the sea which has never been surpassed' Max Hastings 'These novels are a brilliant achievement. They display staggering erudition on almost all aspects of family life' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

`A more exhilarating series of snapshots into marine adventures in an age of exploration would be hard to imagine' DAILY MAIL `This anthology of salty yarns laid the foundations for the... Aubrey-Maturin cycle. Splendidly transporting' INDEPENDENT

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Patrick O’Brian, until his death in 2000, was one of our greatest contemporary novelists. He is the author of the acclaimed Aubrey–Maturin tales and the biographer of Joseph Banks and Picasso. He is the author of many other books including Testimonies, and his Collected Short Stories. In 1995 he was the first recipient of the Heywood Hill Prize for a lifetime’s contribution to literature. In the same year he was awarded the CBE. In 1997 he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Trinity College, Dublin. He lived for many years in South West France and he died in Dublin in January 2000.

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