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Author: Patrick O'Brian
Format: MP3 CD
Author Patrick O'Brian
Narrator Gordon Griffin
SeriesGolden Ocean, Book 1
Duration 11h
A fictionalised retelling of Commodore (later Admiral) Anson's fateful circumnavigation of the globe in 1740, which precedes O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series. Peter Palofox, son of a poor Irish parson, signs on as a midshipman, never before having seen a ship. Together with his lifelong friend Sean, Peter sets out to seek his fortune, embarking upon...
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Format: MP3 CD
Author Patrick O'Brian
Narrator Gordon Griffin
SeriesGolden Ocean, Book 2
Duration 12h 30m
Patrick O'Brian's first novel about the sea, 'The Golden Ocean', took inspiration from Commodore Anson's ill-fated voyage around the globe in 1740. With this audiobook, O'Brian returns to this rich source to recount the adventures of two young men - midshipman Jack Byron and naive surgeon's mate Tobias Barrow - aboard the Wager, which was parted fr...
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Author Patrick O'Brian
Narrator Graham Roberts
SeriesAubrey-Maturin, Book 14
Duration 13h 25m
In this audiobook Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are stranded on an uninhabited island in the Dutch East Indies, attacked by ferocious Malay pirates. They contrive their escape, but after a stay in Batavia and a change of ship, they are caught up on a chase in fiercely tidal waters and then embroiled in much more insidious conflicts on the terrify...
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Author Patrick O'Brian
Narrator Christopher Kay
SeriesAubrey-Maturin, Book 15
Duration 11h
As the book opens, Captain Jack Aubery sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies in his favourite vessel the Surprise, pondering on middle age. He soon becomes aware that he is out of touch with the mood of his ship: to his astonishment he finds that, in spite of a lifetime's experience, he does not know what the foremost hands or even h...
View BookMen of War & the Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Format: MP3 CD
Author Patrick O'Brian
Narrator Stephen Thorne
SeriesAubrey-Maturin, Book 21
Duration 6h
At the time of Patrick O'Brian's death, he was half way through a novel that continued the Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin series. In a moment of almost felicity, Jack Aubrey has seen his illegitimate son ably discharging important duties, Sophie and his daughters are with him, and Stephen has a new love. And Jack, at last, is flying a Rear-Admiral...
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Author Patrick O'Brian
Narrator Graham Roberts
SeriesAubrey-Maturin, Book 20
Duration 10h 35m
Napoleon's hundred days of freedom and his renewed threat to Europe have ended at Waterloo and Aubrey has finally, as the title suggests, become a blue level Admiral. He and Maturin have - at last - set sail on their much postponed mission to Chile. The twentieth title in the Aubrey-Maturin series.
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Format: MP3 CD
Author Patrick O'Brian
Narrator Patrick Tull
SeriesAubrey-Maturin, Book 1
Duration 16h
The first book in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series of naval adventures, in which the surgeon Stephen Maturin introduces himself to Captain Jack Aubrey by driving an elbow into his ribs during a chamber-music recital. After which inauspicious meeting they commence a firm friendship and a series of great literary voyages set against the immacu...
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Format: MP3 CD
Author Patrick O'Brian
Narrator Peter Wickham
Duration 12h
This is the story of Richard Temple - prisoner of war, sometime adventurer, lover and artist - told with insight, empathy and drama by one of the world's master storytellers. Captive in a brutal German prison towards the end of World War II, Richard Temple has been stripped of everything that once defined him: pride, courage, his very identity have...
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Author Patrick O'Brian
Narrator Graham Roberts
SeriesAubrey-Maturin, Book 17
Duration 15h
Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland, where the French are mounting an invasion which will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as an intelligence agent. The seventeenth book in the Aubrey-Matu...
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