Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)W. W. Norton & Company, 17 Σεπ 2000 - 262 σελίδες "The old master has us again in the palm of his hand." —Los Angeles Times Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a peacetime navy. When the Surprise is nearly sunk on her way to South America—where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain—the delay occasioned by repairs reaps a harvest of strange consequences. The South American expedition is a desperate affair; and in the end Jack's bold initiative to strike at the vastly superior Spanish fleet precipitates a spectacular naval action that will determine both Chile's fate and his own. |
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... are pages when Maturin's longing becomes palpable and Aubrey's ferocity as he boards an enemy ship with a cutlass in hand has you sitting bolt upright, startled. . . . The book is another good one.” —Denver Post Blue at the Mizzen.
... Research Center, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations PATRICK O'BRIAN Blue at the Mizzen The Aubrey/Maturin Series Copyright. The sails of a square-rigged ship, hung out to dry in a calm.
... ship hails or signals you will reply carrying dispatches and pursue your course, touching neither sheet nor brace.' 'South-west-by-west it is, sir: and carrying dispatches,' said Harding, and Jack, steadying Stephen by the elbow – the ...
... ship washboards athwart the coach door: green seas is coming aft as far as the capstan, and getting worse every minute. I doubt we'll ever get your toasted cheese up dry, without I bring up the spirit-stove and do it here.' 'Who has the ...
... ship-rigged. Could see no name, no port, no flag. No hail came across. He had roused out the bosun and the carpenter – they would report in a moment – the ship was steering still, though she sagged to leeward. Jack ran forward to meet ...
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