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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 6
Aubrey / Maturin volume 6
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Aubrey / Maturin volume 6
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"A marvelously full-flavored, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat." —Times Literary Supplement
Captain Jack Aubrey arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the British Navy. He and his friend, surgeon Stephen Maturin, take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But before...Author
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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 4
Aubrey/Maturin volume 04
Aubrey/Mauritius volume 4
Aubrey and Maturin
Aubrey/Maturin volume 04
Aubrey/Mauritius volume 4
Aubrey and Maturin
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"Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command-until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant, there to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Réunion. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains-Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity...
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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 5
Aubrey/Maturin volume 5
Aubrey/Maturin volume 05
Aubrey and Maturin
Aubrey/Maturin volume 5
Aubrey/Maturin volume 05
Aubrey and Maturin
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"Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy-and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. With a Dutch man-of-war to windward, the undermanned, outgunned Leopard sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, where, in mountain seas, the Dutchman closes"--...
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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 1
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 01
Aubrey / Maturin volume 01
Aubrey and Maturin
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 01
Aubrey / Maturin volume 01
Aubrey and Maturin
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"The classic first novel of the epic Aubrey/Maturin series, widely considered "the best historical novels ever written" (Richard Snow, New York Times). Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as commander: the fourteen-gun ship HMS Sophie. Meanwhile-after a heated first encounter that nearly comes to a duel-Aubrey and a brilliant but down-on-his-luck physician, Stephen Maturin, strike up an...
6) The truelove
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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.
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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 19
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 19
Aubrey / Maturin volume 19
Aubrey and Maturin
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 19
Aubrey / Maturin volume 19
Aubrey and Maturin
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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin race against time in an attempt to intercept a shipment of gold ingots to a horde of Muslim mercenaries who, if paid, are prepared to help Napoleon in his campaign across Europe.
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"Third in the series of Aubrey-Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy enjoying overwhelming local superiority. But somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the prize that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams: the ships sent by Napoleon to...
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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 17
Aubry / Maturn volume 17
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 17
Aubrey/Maturin
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Aubry / Maturn volume 17
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 17
Aubrey/Maturin
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The 18th Century heroes, Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin of the Royal Navy, are sent to the fever-ridden Gulf of Guinea to disrupt the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland where the French are mounting an invasion, a mission that will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's talents as a secret agent. By the author of The Wine-Dark Sea.
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