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"Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much as my own." Alan Judd, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH. At the opening of their voyage, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are in pursuit of a privateer sailing under American colours through the Great South Sea. Stephen is charged with setting the revolutionary tinder of South America ablaze to relieve the pressure on a British government which, already engaged in a death-struggle with a Europe dominated by Napoleon, has blundered into a war with the young United States. After a series of hair-raising actions, they reach the objective of Stephen's clandestine operations, but the land shows itself as uncertain an element as the ocean...
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In this installment of O'Brian's maritime epic, Captain Aubrey and the crew of the Surprise are pursuing an American privateer through the Great South Sea. As is his custom, O'Brian grabs your attention with the first, beautifully memorable sentence: "A purple ocean, vast under the sky and devoid of all visible life apart from two minute ships racing across its immensity." And he doesn't relinquish it until 260 pages later, by which point Jack Aubrey is delighted at the mere fact of being alive.
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- PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0006470165
- ISBN 13 9780006470168
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages276
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