The Unknown Shore
Patrick O'Brian's first novel about the sea, The Golden Ocean, took inspiration from Commodore George Anson's fateful circumnavigation of the globe in 1740. In The Unknown Shore, O'Brian returns to this rich source and mines it brilliantly for another, quite different tale of exploration and adventure.The Wager was parted from Anson's squadron in the fierce storms off Cape Horn and struggled alone up the coast of Chile until she was driven against the rocks and sank. The survivors were soon involved in trouble of every kind. A surplus of rum, a disappearing stock of food, and a hard, detested captain soon drove them into drunkenness, mutiny,…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-31538-7
- EAN: 9780393315387
- Produktnummer: 19334756
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H20.9 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.0 cm 286 g
- Gewicht: 286
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One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O'Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.
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