The Far Side of the World

Informationen zum Autor One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O’Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies , The Golden Ocean , The Unknown Shore , and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso. Klappentext The war of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. Stephen Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence. Disaster in various guises awaits them in the Great South Sea and in the far reaches of the Pacific: typhoons, castaways, shipwrecks, murder, and criminal insanity. Zusammenfassung The inspiration for the major new motion picture starring Russell Crowe.

Product details

• Authors: P. O'Brian, Patrick O'Brian
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.03.1995
• EAN: 9780393037104
• ISBN: 978-0-393-03710-4
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 217 mm x 33 mm
• Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general