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Patrick O'Brian CBE (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and centred on the friendship of the English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Stephen ...
The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels —20 completed and one unfinished—by English author Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centring on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, a physician, natural philosopher, and intelligence agent.
Patrick O’Brian was born on 12th of December in the year 1914 in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, England. He died on second of January 2000. His birth name was Richard Patrick Russ. He wrote several novels in his lifetime including the famous Aubrey-Maturin series.
Jan 2, 2000 · Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series of historical novels has been described as a masterpiece (David Mamet, New York Times), addictively ...
Jan 1, 2001 · Patrick O'Brian's masterpiece, the Aubrey-Maturin series, follows the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Dr. Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars.
The Aubrey Maturin titles in order of publication. Master and Commander. Post Captain. H.M.S. Surprise. The Mauritius Command. Desolation Island. The Fortune of War. The Surgeon's Mate. The Ionian Mission.
Patrick O'Brian’s most popular book is Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1).
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Oct 17, 2004 · One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O’Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.
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4.3 8,403 ratings. Book 1 of 21: Aubrey/Maturin Novels. See all formats and editions. Save 5% on any 4 qualifying items | Terms. In this, the first of Patrick O’Brian’s much lauded Aubrey–Maturin novels, discover a vibrant world conjured by a master storyteller, rich with detail and character. 1800.
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Jan 2, 2000 · Patrick O’Brian is best known for the Aubrey–Maturin series of novels, acclaimed by Richard Snow in The New York Times as ‘the best historical novels ever written’. O’Brian was also the biographer of Joseph Banks and Picasso.
