The Commodore (平装)
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品牌: Patrick O'Brian
基本信息出版社:W. W. Norton & Company (1996年4月1日)外文书名:船长丛书名:Aubrey-Maturin Series平装:352页正文语种:英语ISBN:0393314596条形码:9780393314595产品尺寸及重量:19.6 x 13.2 x 1.5 cm ; 341 gASIN:0393314596商品描述内容简介在线阅读本书
On a strange decoy mission to the disease-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of New Guinea, Captain Aubrey and secret intelligence agent Maturin are ordered to suppress the slave trade, but the French are mounting an invasion that will give the men added problems. Reprint.编辑推荐Amazon.com Review
After several installments of gallivanting around the South Seas, Aubrey and Maturin return home to England, where the surgeon-cum-intelligence-agent discovers that his wife has disappeared. As if such a domestic crisis weren't enough, the intrepid pair are also dispatched to the Gulf of Guinea (to suppress the slave trade) and to Ireland (to rebuff an impending French invasion.) O'Brian's stunning range, coupled with his mind-bending command of minutiae, explain whyJames Hamilton-Patersonhas called him "the Homer of the Napoleonic Wars."
From Publishers Weekly
This 17th installment in O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series of historical naval tales spent two weeks on PW's bestseller list.
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FromBooklist
In this seventeenth entry in the popular Aubrey/Maturin series, O'Brian brings his British navy sea dogs home for a time, then sends them off to Africa to disrupt the slave trade and on to the Irish coast to thwart a landing by Napoleon's navy. Jack Aubrey's joyous homecoming is soon followed by word he's been promoted to commodore and will command a squadron of fighting ships. But home has only woe to offer the ship's surgeon, naturalist, and spy Stephen Maturin: Brigid, the daughter born after he left England, seems unable to speak; his beloved Diana has run away, leaving widow Clarissa Oakes to care for Brigid; and Sir Joseph Blaine of naval intelligence confides that he, Maturin, and Mrs. Oakes have all earned the vengeful hatred of "a hemi-demi royal, the Duke of Habachtsthal." O'Brian's tales offer many pleasures: complex, intriguing plots; strong relationships (particularly the friendship of Aubrey and Maturin) and colorful supporting characters; rich historical detail; brisk description of ships and their rigging and weather and its effects.The Commodoreis, to be sure, a relatively landlubberly book: the squadron's exploits off Africa are fully described, but concerns ashore dominate, and the climactic confrontation with the French navy is very brief. But O'Brian's faithful readers will demand his latest effort, which leaves plenty of plotlines dangling for resolution in number 18.Mary Carroll--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
The acclaim that Patrick O'Brian's prodigious 17-title, nineteenth-century seafaring sequence is receiving must eventually make its two central characters--the sea captain and his ship's surgeon--one of the most memorable literary double acts of the twentieth century. With great justification, too, for this novel sequence is not only a miraculously sustained effort but it is also evidence of a refined literary sensibility and one of the best and most authentic historical time machines I have ever encountered. --William Boyd
