A Book of Voyages

Informationen zum Autor Patrick O’Brian was born in 1914 and published his first book, Caesar , when he was only fifteen. In the 1960s he began work on the idea that, over the next four decades, evolved into the twenty-novel long Aubrey–Maturin series (with an extra unfinished volume published posthumously). In 1995 he was awarded the CBE, and in 1997 he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Trinity College, Dublin. He died in January 2000 at the age of 85. Klappentext An anthology of 17th and 18th century travel writing that inspired the hugely popular Aubrey/Maturin series, collected and introduced by Patrick O'Brian, beautifully repackaged to mark the centenary of his birth. Zusammenfassung An anthology of 17th and 18th century travel writing that inspired the hugely popular Aubrey/Maturin series, collected and introduced by Patrick O’Brian, beautifully repackaged to mark the centenary of his birth.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Brian, O&apos, Patrick OBrian, Patrick O'Brian
• Assisted by: Patrick O’Brian (Editor), Patrick O’Brian (Editor), Patrick O'Brian (Editor)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.11.2014
• EAN: 9780007487127
• ISBN: 978-0-00-748712-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; Reiseberichte, Reiseerinnerungen (div.), TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Anthologies: general, Classic Travel Writing, New;Land;Un-known;Adventure