The Wine-Dark Sea

Patrick O'Brian‏

ינו׳ 2002 · Penguin Random House Audio · בקריינות של Tim Pigott-Smith

מידע על ספר האודיו הזה

In their 16th outing, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a prize into the Great Southern Ocean.

The story takes Maturin to South America. Caught up in a failed coup, he flees across the Andes. Aubrey makes a desperate voyage in a open boat, but both survive and are reunited.

"The best chapter yet in the continuing saga of life in Nelson's navy." (Publishers Weekly)

על המחבר

Patrick O'Brian's many novels include Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, and The Unknown Shore, in addition to twenty volumes in the highly respected Aubrey/Maturin series.  O'Brian wrote acclaimed biographies of Pablo Picasso and Sir Joseph Banks and translated many works from French, among them the novels and memoirs of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Lacouture's biography of Charles de Gaulle.  Mr. O'Brian died in January 2000.