Blue at the Mizzen - Brossura

O'Brian, Patrick

Brossura

ISBN 10: 039332107X ISBN 13: 9780393321074

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2000

Riassunto

Now that the Napoleonic Wars are over, frigate captain Jack Aubrey faces desertion, near sinking, and brawls with British sailors--all before he reaches his next destination, Chile--where he will help the fledgling country break free of Spain and takes on some notable passengers. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

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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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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 039332107X
• ISBN 13: 9780393321074
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 261