THE GOLDEN OCEAN PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Patrick O'Brian | 288 pages | 17 Oct 1996 | WW Norton & Co | 9780393315370 | English | New York, United States Golden Ocean Hotel, Doha, Qatar - Photos Add Image Add an image Do you have any images for this title? Edit Cast Episode complete credited cast: Gig Young Tony Fleming Charles Boyer Marcel St. Clair Robert Coote Timmy St. Clair Gladys Cooper Margaret St. Clair Eddie Albert Gregg Roberts Pippa Scott Jane Tyler Ray Fulmer Jack Fisher Harry Millard Hunt Clark Howat Peter Stewart John Hale Able Greta Chi Aimee Jonathan Hole Teller Charles Alvin Bell Bank Manager Jo de Winter Edit Storyline When ruthless and unusually wary tycoon Gregg Roberts tries to take advantage of Tony's friend Peter Stewart, Tony devises a scheme to have Roberts invest in a venture involving a new scientific method that produces gold. Edit Did You Know? Trivia At the beginning when they show the island where Tony is heading in his boat is the same shot used for the island on Gilligan's Island Quotes Martha : How is the Duchess? Dear Dora! Clair : Still drinking heavily. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report this. Reviewers viewed the novel as it stood and in contrast to the author's later level of accomplishments in that series. Publishers Weekly , writing in , says this first sea novel by O'Brian "can stand on its own as an entertaining and psychologically astute narrative". Specifically, "Shipboard life rings true, the story never flags and humor abounds: "Well, he is a wonderful poacher for a Protestant," observes one Anglo-Irishman. Kirkus Reviews finds this novel "Not a mature piece of work, but appealing enough to satisfy fans of O'Brian's naval sagas. Tom Clark writing in the Los Angeles Times says that "evidently in keeping with an aim of appealing to a younger audience, the darker aspects of the crew's experience are played down in favor of a robust and exhilarating rendering of the great adventure of it all. Library Journal noted that this book by O'Brian "set the course they [Aubrey-Maturin series] later followed. Scott Veale writing in The New York Times was upbeat about this novel, saying that "As always, the author's erudition and humor are on display, whether he's describing the singing of the masts in the wind, the harrowing seas of Cape Horn or 18th-century superstitions. The same expedition is described from the perspective of two on one of the ships in the squadron that did not make it around the globe in O'Brian's The Unknown Shore. Mr Walter the chaplain wrote his own account of the voyage of Anson, noted by Clark above as one of O'Brian's historical sources for this novel and the interactions among the officers and crew. In , O'Brian published Master and Commander , the first book in a 20 novel series, known as the Aubrey-Maturin series. It is set in the Napoleonic Wars , begins in , and features a pair of men who become the closest of friends, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, physician and natural philosopher. Maturin has, but finds Anson's journey wasteful, as Anson noted nothing of the natural world that he saw on the journey. Aubrey is impressed that Anson made the journey and succeeded in it. The Royal Navy has changed since Anson's voyage, as have the politics of the world, with the thirteen British colonies in North America now the nation of the United States of America, the War of the Austrian Succession over, including the exit of France from nearly all its North American colonies , the French Revolution in the past, and the Irish Rebellion of also a past event. The Royal Navy and physicians have learned the need for fresh food and citrus to combat scurvy, a disease which killed so many in Anson's squadron, before this connection was made between scurvy and fresh food. The Napoleonic Wars endured so long, that they make a broad canvas of history against which the author sets the lives of his main characters, still keeping a sharp eye to historical detail and period language, which is a different structure than The Golden Ocean , which tells the tale of one long and daring voyage. In one sense, O'Brian views the long eighteenth century as the setting of his works, putting this novel in the same time period as the later series, while technically happening in two different centuries, the 18th and the 19th. They are both set in the Age of Sail , an even longer period of time than the long eighteenth century. The story is based on a real event, George Anson's voyage around the world that began in Catherine's Island off Brazil at 24 degrees South latitude, shown on this map. This novel was aimed at younger readers, as well as adults, and takes the viewpoint of a new midshipman joining the Royal Navy on HMS Centurion in on this voyage. The boy is on the one ship that makes the entire voyage, and he is one of the survivors. Seen by the midshipman Peter Palafox, the sense of the adventure is depicted, as he sees the world and learns the discipline, hardships and rewards of the Royal Navy. The hardships of the voyage are not dismissed, with counts of the deaths from scurvy, whose cure was not yet understood, and the problems of navigation without the precise knowledge of location gained by chronometers to measure longitude, depicted in detail. Rupert Hart-Davis published many of O'Brian's works, including translations e. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. First edition, publisher Rupert Hart-Davis. Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 27 June Book Review: Fiction. Los Angeles Times. Publishers Weekly. April Book Reviews. The New York Times. Retrieved 17 February Editorial Reviews. Library Journal. The Golden Ocean. Recorded Books. The Text Reduced". London: Rivingtons. Retrieved 28 June This was "the War of Jenkins' Ear"-yes, there actually was a war with that name! Anyway, O'Brian tells the story of a young Irishman who goes to sea and serves as a midshipman on Anson's flagship, Centurian. There's incredible hardship-and death- as the men face storms and scurvy, as well as the Spaniards. But there is real motivation, as the men sail in search o I like a good sea story and this is a good one, based on the voyage of Commodore Anson in England's war against Spain in the mids. But there is real motivation, as the men sail in search of "the Manila Galleon" with its gold and silver, in the great South Seas This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Copypasted from my posts on LJ when I was reading it: This afternoon I went to my grandmother to enjoy a nice long bath. God, I need a nice bath sometimes. I felt all refreshed and chipper when I came out of it FitzGerald's sea-sickness cracked me up, and Peter getting into a fight with the other mids. I shouldn't laugh but POB is so wonderfully funny about it. Not to mention it's also very interesti Copypasted from my posts on LJ when I was reading it: This afternoon I went to my grandmother to enjoy a nice long bath. Not to mention it's also very interesting to see how Ransome, who was a very likeable chap to Jack Byron in the last book is now a bully just because the other boy is Irish I wonder whether he'll change. In any case it's a wonderful book so far. TGO is hilariously funny, by the way. Mr Stapleton has just explained the concept of keel-hauling to Peter. And of course any time, any time at all when logic is attempted to be applied to anything nautical. Why is the quarterdeck bigger than the halfdeck? Why go up the futtock shrouds instead of using a perfectly serviceable lubber hole that was built for the purpose? How can you spend the watch below aloft? Why call it a gundeck at all if there are no guns? Why is it called a one-decker if it has four storeys? Navy logic. And Peter was sitting across from Jack Byron at the dinner table. And he was mast-headed. I like to think that Jack was one of the other boys who were and they looked at each other form different ships but didn't know it. There was a mention of Palafox at the end of The Unknown Shore as well. Well, they would tie in, of course, but it's still a lot of fun. Not to mention that I'm getting thoroughly used to the route they're taking. I wish there were a glossary or footnotes for the Irish phrases, though. I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of the Irish references like what Teague refers to, or little snippets of conversation, not to mention I can't pronounce most place names. No more talking about TGO! Chapter three awaits. Hey for home, England, and beauty. Anything else? Oh yes, Ransome has redeemed himself, which we all knew he would because Jack Byron liked him, and Keppel has no teeth left, which is kind of tragic for a little kid who's probably only just gotten his set of permanent teeth a few years ago, but he gets to have a cool lisp now, so it's okay. Now let's go harry the Spaniards! This distresses me.