Desolation Island

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written.

Informationen zum Autor Patrick O Brian was born in 1914 and published his first book, Caesar, when he was only fifteen. In the 1960s he began work on the idea that, over the next four decades, evolved into the twenty-novel long Aubrey Maturin series (with an extra unfinished volume published posthumously). In 1995 he was awarded the CBE, and in 1997 he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Trinity College, Dublin. He died in January 2000 at the age of 85. Klappentext On Desolation Island, with the known world out of reach, uneasy alliances are sometimes forged Zusammenfassung On Desolation Island, with the known world out of reach, uneasy alliances are sometimes forged

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Patrick O Brian was born in 1914 and published his first book, Caesar, when he was only fifteen. In the 1960s he began work on the idea that, over the next four decades, evolved into the twenty-novel long Aubrey Maturin series (with an extra unfinished volume published posthumously). In 1995 he was awarded the CBE, and in 1997 he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Trinity College, Dublin. He died in January 2000 at the age of 85.

Klappentext

On Desolation Island, with the known world out of reach, uneasy alliances are sometimes forged

Zusammenfassung
On Desolation Island, with the known world out of reach, uneasy alliances are sometimes forged