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Patrick OโBrianโs Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets.
Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command โ until his friend, and occasional intelligence agent, Stephen Maturin, arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope, under a Commodoreโs pennant. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains โ Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity can push his crews to the verge of mutiny.
ISBN:9780007255863
