The wine-dark sea
by Patrick O'Brian
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At the outset of this adventure, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a heavy American privateer through the Great South Sea. Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen's mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America. Jack will survive a desperate open-boat journey and come face to face with his illegitimate black son; Stephen, caught up in the aftermath of his failed coup, will flee for his life into the high, frozen wastes of the Andes; and Patrick O'Brian's brilliantly detailed narrative will reunite them at last in a breathtaking chase through storm seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn.
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Literature and fiction, action and adventure, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, action & adventure, Sea stories, Aubrey, jack (fictitious character), fiction, Maturin, stephen (fictitious character), fiction, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, Jack Aubrey (Fictitious character), Naval History, Ship captains, Ship physicians, Stephen Maturin (Fictitious character), Fiction, historical, Large type books, Great Britain, Great Britain "Fiction, historical, general", Officers, Voyages and travels, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Foreign relations, Armed Forces, Diplomatic relations, Great Britain. Royal NavyPlaces
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"A purple ocean, vast under the sky and devoid of all visible life apart from two minute ships racing across its immensity."
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1st American ed.
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