The Commodore - Hardcover

Book 17 of 21: Aubrey/Maturin Novels

O'Brian, Patrick

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9780002555500: The Commodore

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Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, 1st Edition, 1st Impression. [vi] + 282pp. Royal 8vo. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind, clean tight sound square, well held in joints and hinges, clean crisp corners and edges. Bound in very good bright gilt lettered blue cloth gently rubbed to spine, housed and protected in very good unclipped original colour pictorial dustwrapper, featuring ship at sea wraparound illustration. No fading to gently rubbed spine. A delight for reader and collector alike.

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After several installments of gallivanting around the South Seas, Aubrey and Maturin return home to England, where the surgeon-cum-intelligence-agent discovers that his wife has disappeared. As if such a domestic crisis weren't enough, the intrepid pair are also dispatched to the Gulf of Guinea (to suppress the slave trade) and to Ireland (to rebuff an impending French invasion.) O'Brian's stunning range, coupled with his mind-bending command of minutiae, explain why James Hamilton-Paterson has called him "the Homer of the Napoleonic Wars."

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