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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780393310160 ISBN: 0393310167 Label: W. W. Norton & Company Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company Number Of Items: 1 Publication Date: 1993-07 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Studio: W. W. Norton & Company Editorial Review: Product Description: Dispatched with his ship, the Surprise, to restore order after an attack on a British whaler in Tonga, Captain Aubrey discovers Clarissa Harvill, an escaped female convict, stowed away in the cable-tier. Reprint. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A Polynesian Tryst, With No Shots Fired...There is no denying the near photographic realism of the scenes and the dialog, and the reader practically feels the roll of the Surprise's deck underfoot. But how long does the author feel he can hold our attention with the admittedly amazing details of the hauling and re-rigging of topmasts? Patrick O'Brien is risking his legacy in these last stories. Here we are, aboard a man of war in His Britannic Majesty's fleet in the Pacific South Seas during the Napoleonic Wars, and not a single shot ... Read More Rating:  - Women trouble, again!Aubrey and Maturin escape from Australia, then the New South Wales penal colony, with an escapee and a stowaway, a woman who has fallen in love with a sailor. The woman has ties back to French spies who had chased and nearly undone Maturin many books back (Ledward and Wray) due to a double agent working within the English government. Better than the previous entry in the series, this discovery opens the possibility of uncovering the spy in the future. Sixteenth in the series: ... Read More Rating: - Another good naval story in the Jack Aubrey seriesPatrick O'Brian's ability to mix naval warfare, botanical and zooloogical wonders, plus geographical excitements is unmatched. Rating: - Weakest Link in the ChainI have to agree with other reviewers who find The Truelove to be the weakest book in a great series. It needs to be read for continuity, but devotees of Aubrey should temper their expectations. The book is slow, very slow, with the plot congealing at a fraction of the pace set by Preserved Killick's various pudding monstrosities. The professional reviewers paid so little attention that they got the chronology and places wrong (the main action is in Hawaii, not Tonga). They, as I, probably ... Read More Rating:  - I laughed, I cried; it moved meIt was with some trepidation that I started this book because of what other reviewers said but I found it thoroughly enjoyable and moving as events subtly and inexorably moved to the blow up where officers are reprimanded and Surprises are flogged; where the innocent and the guilty worked till they near died under a right Tartar of a Captain who cowed even Killick until we reach this sentence: "When they were assembled in their usual unseemly heap their Captain surveyed them with a benevolence they had not ... Read More |
