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Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780006499312 ISBN: 0006499317 Label: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: September 01, 1997 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Studio: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: 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. Product Description: The sixteenth Aubrey-Maturin maritime novel. Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. At the opening of a voyage filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are in pursuit of a privateer sailing under American colours through the Great South Sea. Stephen's objective is to set the revolutionary tinder of South America ablaze to relieve the pressure on the British government which has blundered into war with the young and uncomfortably vigorous United States. The shock and barbarity of hand-to-hand fighting are sharpened by O'Brian's exact sense of period, his eye for landscape and his feel for a ship under sail. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - stirring adventure, strong characters, and gentle good humorOne of the best of the series, and its combination of stirring adventure, strong characters, and gentle good humor leaves me a bit ahoo that only one more remains in the series. Seventeenth in the series: The Commodore (O'Brian, Patrick, Aubrey/Maturin Novels, 17.) Rating:  - Epic series keeps going strongFrom the opening chapter of "The Wine-Dark Sea," the 16th book in Patrick O'Brian's hallowed Master & Commander series, the reader knows that something special is going on. Aubrey and Maturin sail their privateer, the Surprise, into waters made lethal by an erupting volcano that has just emerged from the sea, spewing lava and death. No other writer could so effortlessly blend natural beauty and naval drama (for an enemy American ship is close by). "WDS" is a rollicking novel, even ... Read More Rating: - very impressedVery impressed with this book. I really enjoyed when they went to Peru. This is my 3rd of his books and really enjoyed this. Rating: - Don't Read This Book. . .. . .without first reading Truelove. Wine Dark Sea is the 16th book in the Aubrey/Marturin series and as usual, the writing is as rhythmic and sensual as the sea itself. O'Brian does his usual great job of spiking the plot with layers of meaning and twists and turns. He is also at his best in emphasizing the 'novel' part of his historical-novel niche. If this is your first experience of the series though, you might find the characters and motivations ... Read More Rating: - Amazing, As UsualWine-Dark Sea is the sixteenth in Patrick O'Brian's wonderful 20-part nautical series. It is also the final in a four-part mini-series, as volumes thirteen through sixteen are an ongoing circumnavigation of the world. In this installment, Aubrey and Maturin and the HMS Surprise finish their adventures in the Pacific, land in Peru and then round the Cape into the Atlantic on their way home to England. For fans of the naval wars, there are some good 'ol rip-roaring chase and battle scenes. The Maturin ... Read More |
