VOLUME THREE, THE SURGEONS MATE / THE IONIAN MISSION / TREASONS HARBOUR PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Patrick O'Brian,Robert Hardy | 6 pages | 06 Aug 2009 | HarperCollins Publishers | 9780007319329 | English | London, United Kingdom Volume Three, The Surgeons Mate / The Ionian Mission / Treasons Harbour PDF Book However, as much as I commend the author on his wonderful storytelling, I I really enjoyed this entry in the Jack Aubrey canon. No trivia or quizzes yet. This could of course be argued for nearly any continuing series based around the same characters, but it seems peculiarly appropriate to me for this one. The Shannon's engagement with the U. Treasons harbour, p. Here, though, is the first hint of what will become the dominant tone of this book: a sort of sad, strange, tragicomic atmosphere. Overseas customers please note this order will be sent air mail only. Attractively bound in recent burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Feb 28, Nooilforpacifists rated it liked it Shelves: naval-fiction. This copy has the US wrapper. I found it particularly touching in this book when Jack remained onboard his ship fretting away like a mother hen as Stephen undertook a potentially deadly mission. Recollect yourself. I am starting my review with these peaceful pursuits as a result of the bloody battles at the end of the Ionian Mission , battles that may have brought honour and monetary prizes to Jack Aubrey, but that also put both of the ships he sailed on, The Worcester and The Surprise , out of action and in need of extensive repairs in the port of Malta. More information about this seller Contact this seller 5. Dr Maturin too was fond of Thomas Pullings: like Captain Aubrey he had known him as midshipman, master's mate and lieutenant; he esteemed him highly and had sewn back his nose and forehead with even more than his usual care, sitting by his cot night after night during his days of fever. The book opens with Surprise and its crew in Malta, with Surprise being repaired after her battle with the Torgud and Kitabi see book no. We have an escape from the Americas, some domesticity, more sea battles in the Nordics and an Parisian imprisonment. There are even signs that point to a mole among the higher echelons of the British secret services. It's really at this point that I feel the Aubrey-Maturin series is less of a sequence of separate novels and more like overlarge chapters in one very large story. I find it exhilarating and look forward to the next part of the story. The complete wrappers are generally near fine but most volumes suffer from various degrees of spine fading. Max Hastings illustrator. Thomas Mann is one of the most imitated writers of the twentieth century, but for some reason it seems to be next to impossible to imitate him successfully — while there is a plethora of excellent, even great Faulkner epigones to name just one example , almost everyone attempting to write in the vein of Thomas Mann seems to end up second- or third-rate if not worse , mostly due to a vapid and anaemic prose style. A debate that echoes for me the current efforts to legalise pot. View all 3 comments. Most Helpful Most Recent. Volume Three, The Surgeons Mate / The Ionian Mission / Treasons Harbour Writer Each volume features a frontispiece of the beloved Geoff Hunt dust jacket art. There are no owners marks or names. A Mint copy ,deep blue no fade in a fine wrapper with absolutely no fade ,the best copy I have ever seen,with signed bookplate. The Ionian Mission. About this Item: J. Free with a day trial. The scene then shifts from Malta in the Mediterranean Sea to a slog across the Sinai Desert to the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea as Jack, Stephen, and the crew of Surprise 'borrow' a ship from the East India Company to pursue the nefarious and scheming French in a devilishly clever little campaign. Her relationship with Stephen may be complicated, but nobody can say that it is boring. Patrick O'Brian. His eye caught a tall figure in a post-captain's uniform standing by the Marine officers and he cried, 'Aubrey! While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the centre stage; for the dockyards and salons of Malta are alive with Napoleon's agents, and the admiralty's intelligence network is compromised. The Aubrey-Maturin Series on Goodreads Books are matching PB. Sep 17, C. But Jack must first contend with an escaped convict who has stowed away on the Surprise , an attractive female convict who is driving the crew to awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies. In addition the characteristic hovering of irony, the vacillating between two sides of a border without coming down on either seems an almost too perfect solution for what is maybe the central dilemma of the traditional historical novel i. Lesueur and Boulay, a double agent on the Governor's staff, arrive to kill her, as she is of no more use to them, and have already killed Ponto. Nautical Fiction] O'Brian, Patrick. In fact, by the end of The Surgeon's Mate , Diana herself will push Stephen into a corner, demanding some sign of a soft heart, and Stephen's response is, we hope, the beginning of his journey back. All are protected in archival covers. Another excellent episode -- and I think I liked this one better than several of the other recent ones since it has more Maturin and the intelligence side. Your own Horace begged Venus to spare him — parce, precor, precor. On a walk of this kind in the Mediterranean islands he usually saw tortoises, which he did not dislike at all — far from it — but they seemed rare on Gozo, and it was not until he had been going for some time that he heard a curious tock-tock-tock and he saw a small one running, positively running across the road, perched high on its legs; it was being pursued by a larger tortoise, who, catching it up, butted it three times in quick succession: it was the clap of the shells that produced the tock-tock-tock. Re-priced and price clipped by Collins. Volume Three, The Surgeons Mate / The Ionian Mission / Treasons Harbour Reviews The high level double agent whose existence Maturin begins to suspect does not succeed in undoing either Maturin or Aubrey, yet. None of the dust wrappers are faded as is usually the case with this series. Perhaps it will suit you, too. A Mint copy ,deep blue no fade in a fine wrapper with absolutely no fade ,the best copy I have ever seen,with signed bookplate. I am starting my review with these peaceful pursuits as a result of the bloody battles at the end of the Ionian Mission , battles that may have brought honour and monetary prizes to Jack Aubrey, but that also put both of the ships he sailed on, The Worcester and The Surprise , out of action and in need of extensive repairs in the port of Malta. There he is, just by Edinburgh over there, nattering with her skipper. The whole of Halifax had turned out to greet them and their victory, the first victory in a war that had started so disastrously for the Royal Navy, with three proud frigates taken one after another by the Americans in single-ship actions, to say nothing of the smaller vessels: obviously the sailors were the most ecstatic—and their bitter pain at all these defeats could be measured by the hoarse enormity of their present joy—but the thousands and thousands of redcoats and civilians were delighted too, and young Mr Wallis, in command of the Shannon, could scarcely be heard when he gave the order to clew up. Jack is scared of a woman coming back to England with his bastard--and instead view spoiler [she marries another and he seems to have gotten away with it hide spoiler ]. Post Captain has tiny loss to the the upper spine. Published by Norton. Shelves: hf-napoleonic-era , fictionth-century , british-literature , read , audio-books , adventure , historical- fiction. His quietly ruthless intelligence, his single-minded fixations on his academic pursuits, his loyalty to Jack and the friendship they have - I can't offhand think of many books which inspire such a fierce joy in me as I read them. Very badly wounded in the head. He is barely conscious. More information about this seller Contact this seller 7. Patrick Tull capably interprets the text. A long dark form could be seen below him and while his face still looked up, his wide-open mouth uttering an enormous cry, he was shaken from side to side with inconceivable ferocity and he vanished in a great boil of water. In respect to the internal chronology of the series, it is the third of eleven novels beginning with The Surgeon's Mate that might take five or six years to happen but are all pegged to an extended , or as Patrick O'Brian says it, a and b introduction to The Far Side of the World , the tenth novel in this series. I started this book over a year ago Did you suffer a great deal, Mr Falkiner? Jack Aubrey 1. Volume Three, The Surgeons Mate / The Ionian Mission / Treasons Harbour Read Online All are first edition, first printings and all are in near fine to fine condition in original wrappers.