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O'Brian, Patrick 1914-2000

Overview
Works: 401 works in 2,398 publications in 23 languages and 113,221 library holdings
Genres: Historical fiction  Sea stories  War stories  Adventure fiction  Suspense fiction  Adventure stories  Love stories  Spy stories  Historical fiction, English  Mystery fiction 
Roles: Translator, Bibliographic antecedent, Creator, Performer
Classifications: pr6029.b55, 823.914
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147 editions published between and 2010 in 14 languages and held by 3,229 libraries worldwide
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin form a friendship in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy is described.
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61 editions published between and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,465 libraries worldwide
On the high seas, Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his co-adventurer, Dr. Stephen Maturin, chase a shipment of gold destined for Napoleon. The emperor has escaped from Elba and the gold would enable him to raise more troops.
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59 editions published between and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 2,438 libraries worldwide
A Royal Navy warship is dispatched to the Pacific to help Chile fight for its independence from Spain. Twentieth volume in a series featuring Captain Jack Aubery and ship's doctor Stephen Maturin.
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100 editions published between and 2009 in 8 languages and held by 2,290 libraries worldwide
Presents the continuation of Jack Aubrey's life as the Peace of Amiens docks the Commander onshore, to France, and back to sea.
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61 editions published between and 2009 in 6 languages and held by 2,275 libraries worldwide
The 18th Century heroes, Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin of the Royal Navy, are sent to the fever-ridden Gulf of Guinea to disrupt the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland where the French are mounting an invasion, a mission that will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's talents as a secret agent. By the author of The Wine-Dark Sea.
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53 editions published between and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 2,271 libraries worldwide
The continuing saga of the Royal Navy's Captain Jack Aubrey, now being sued by slaveholders for the ships he confiscated off Africa. At the same his wife is after him for his affair with a mistress. Things improve when he goes to sea to fight the French and captures a ship with gold.
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86 editions published between and 2011 in 11 languages and held by 2,227 libraries worldwide
The War of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. Little do he and Maturin know that disaster awaits them in the Great South Sea: typhoons, shipwrecks, murder, and criminal insanity.
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91 editions published between and 2009 in 10 languages and held by 2,205 libraries worldwide
Aubrey is on the defensive against an enemy with overwhelming local superiority, but somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the ships sent by Napoleon to attack the China Fleet, a prize that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams.
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59 editions published between and 2008 in 5 languages and held by 2,173 libraries worldwide
1st American ed.
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90 editions published between and 2009 in 8 languages and held by 2,141 libraries worldwide
Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin sail to Australia with a hold full of convicts, including a dangerous spy, while the crew is decimated by disease and their ship, the "Leopard," is pursued by a Dutch man-of-war.
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97 editions published between and 2009 in 10 languages and held by 2,121 libraries worldwide
During the Napoleonic wars, British naval captain Jack Aubrey, charged with capturing the French islands of Reunion and Mauritius, must first cope with his fellow commanders.
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67 editions published between and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 1,998 libraries worldwide
The Letter of Marque continues the saga of Jack Aubrey, brilliant yet disgraced officer, and Stephan Maturin, ship's surgeon and British intelligence operator. Together they sail on a desperate mission against the French, which, if successful, may redeem Aubrey from the private hell of his disgrace.
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72 editions published between and 2010 in 8 languages and held by 1,996 libraries worldwide
As Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are on their way home to report their latest victory to the government, they are menaced by those out to capture Maturin for his actions against the French intelligence network in the New World.
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85 editions published between and 2010 in 8 languages and held by 1,988 libraries worldwide
Jack Aubrey, commander of the best-armed frigate in the Royal Navy, leaves the Dutch East Indies to return to England in a dispatch vessel, but the outbreak of the War of 1812 delays his journey and draws him into bloody battle.
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62 editions published between and 2010 in 6 languages and held by 1,959 libraries worldwide
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But a sudden turn of events takes them off on a hazardous mission to the Greek isles, where they are soon involved in fierce and thrilling action.
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56 editions published between and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 1,940 libraries worldwide
Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and Stephen Maturin, ships surgeon and intelligence agent, return to set sail for the South China Sea on a diplomatic mission intended to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay Princes.
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64 editions published between and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 1,925 libraries worldwide
Dispatched with his ship, the Surprise, to restore order after an attack on a British whaler in Tonga, Captain Aubrey discovers Clarissa Harvill, an escaped female convict, stowed away in the cable-tier. Reprint.
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60 editions published between and 2008 in 5 languages and held by 1,897 libraries worldwide
After surviving a great typhoon in the South China Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey, ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the HMS Diane attempt to rebuild their ship to leave the small desert island where they have been shipwrecked.
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65 editions published between and 2010 in 7 languages and held by 1,847 libraries worldwide
Ship's doctor Stephen Maturin, a British intelligence agent, stands as the sole bulwark against the sabotage of his friend Captain Jack Aubrey's mission in Malta.
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65 editions published between and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 1,796 libraries worldwide
When Jack Aubrey makes some bad investments which involve him with the London underworld, he must rely on Stephen Maturin, an intelligence officer on his ship, to get him out of trouble.
 
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Alternative Names

controlled identity Russ, Richard Patrick,1914-2000

O'Brien, Patrick, 1914-2000
Russ, R. P. 1914-2000
Russ, Richard Patrick, 1914-2000
Russ, Richard Patrick 1914-2000
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