Post Captain - Patrick O'Brian Fiction / Historical

Post Captain

See Larger Book Cover	Categories :	Historical War & Military

	Publisher :	HarperCollins Publishers
	Author :	Patrick O'Brian
	Narrator :	Robert Hardy

	Length :	4 hours 32 minutes (Abridged)

Download Price :		$11.99

Format :		Encoded Windows Media

Available Worldwide except in the US, Canada and the Phillipines

© 2009 HarperCollins Publishers

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This tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the Treaty of Amiens. He and his friend Stephen Maturin, surgeon and secret agent, begin to live the lives of country gentlemen, hunting, entertaining and enjoying amorous adventures. Their comfortable existence, however, is cut short when Jack is overnight reduced to a pauper with enough debts to keep him in prison for life. He flees to the continent to seek refuge: instead he finds himself a hunted fugitive as Napoleon has ordered the internment of all Englishmen in France.

"Liveliness and expertise…the hero is vigorous flesh and blood."
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Reviews

‘…full of the energy that comes from a writer having struck a vein… Patrick O’Brian is unquestionably the Homer of the Napoleonic wars.’
James Hamilton- Paterson

‘You are in for the treat of your lives. Thank God for Patrick O’Brian: his genius illuminates the literature of the English language, and lightens the lives of those who read him.’
Kevin Myers, Irish Times

‘Written with most engaging enthusiasm that can’t fail to give pleasure to anybody who enjoys historical adventure flavoured with more than a dash of realism.’
Sunday Times

‘Liveliness and expertise… the hero is vigorous flesh and blood.’
Observer

‘This book sets him at the very top of his genre’
Mary Renault

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