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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 4
Aubrey and Maturin volume 4
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 4
Aubrey and Maturin volume 4
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 4
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Captain Jack Aubrey, given secret orders to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Reunion, finds his mission endangered by the behavior of two of his crew members.
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"The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life-and mutiny-on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its original publication in 1951, as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of World War II. In the intervening half century, The Caine Mutiny has become a perennial favorite of readers young...
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Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and shipmate Dr. Stephen Maturin head for Australia with a hold full of convicts on a mission to rescue Governor Bligh of "Bounty" fame, but they must first deal with a deadly disease that decimates the crew, and the threat of a Dutch man-of-war.
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Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and fearless captain in Nelson's navy, accepts a mission that will test his abilities to the limit: he is to set sail immediately for Cape Horn, to intercept a powerful frigate intent on wreaking havoc among British whalers. Aubrey's beloved ship, HMS Surprise, is up to the task, but many of her sailors are untried. Aubrey's confidant, ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, has orders of his own in the world of secret intelligence....
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"For the first time in Jack Aubrey's long, illustrious career, the sea, to which he had escaped with very little more than his dignity intact, brings small solace to him because of his increasing despondency over debts and troubles at home.
Shoved into a temporary command in "that rotten old Worcester," Aubrey is off to the Mediterranean to join the Royal Navy's blockade of the French port of Toulon, where he will be dispatched by Admiral Harte (unfortunately...
11) The truelove
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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 15
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 15
Aubrey and Maturin volume 15
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 15
Aubrey and Maturin volume 15
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Captain Jack Aubrey, dispatched with the "Surprise" to restore order in the Sandwich Islands where a British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief, must first deal with the chaos that erupts on his own ship when it is discovered one of the mates has smuggled aboard a prostitute.
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Horatio Hornblower saga volume 4
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Recounts the early years of Horatio Hornblower's captaincy, in which the young hero is stretched to the utmost by adventures at home and in the Mediterranean.
15) Enemy in sight!
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Richard Bolitho, onboard the Royal Navy ship "Hyperion," confronts a superior officer whose egotism jeopardizes the operation.
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For treating a wounded nobleman who participated in the Monmouth rebellion, Dr. Peter Blood is condemned and sold as a slave in the Carribean. Taking advantage of a Spanish raid on the island on which he is held, Blood captures the Spaniard's ship, and embarks on the carreer of a buccaneer.
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Temeraire volume 1
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After capturing a French frigate and seizing its precious cargo, Captain Will Laurence of the HMS "Reliant" befriends the dragon Temeraire and uses his new friend to help defend his country from other airborne dragon forces.
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