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The Thirteen Gun Salute by Patrick Obrian Publisher Comments Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life. Following his dismissal from the Royal Navy (a false accusation), he has earned reinstatement through his daring exploits as a privateer, brilliantly chronicled in The Letter... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick Obrian Publisher Comments Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian Publisher Comments Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command--until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant, there to mount an expedition against the French-held islands... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick Obrian Publisher Comments Shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner from the wreck. A vicious attack by Malay pirates is repulsed, but the makeshift... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Aubrey-Maturin #5: Desolation Island by Patrick Obrian Publisher Comments Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopardto Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy'"and a treacherous disease that... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fortune of War by Patrick Obrian Publisher Comments Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ionian Mission (Aubrey-Maturin) by Patrick O'brian Publisher Comments Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain commanding a line-of-battle ship in the Royal Navy's blockade of Toulon, and this is a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Yellow Admiral by Patrick Obrian Publisher Comments Beset by pirates, Knights of Malta, and saboteurs, Captain Matthew Quinton sails to Africa in pursuit of a mountain of gold in this rousing sequel toGentleman Captain.“A splendid addition to nautical adventure”* sets sail again, this time for... (read more) List Price $22.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Aubrey-Maturin #9: Treason's Harbour by Patrick O'brian Publisher Comments All Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O'brian Publisher Comments At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean reminds Stephen of Homer's famous description, and portends an... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Far Side of the World by Patrick O'Brian Publisher Comments Now a major motion picture production, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, starring Russell Crowe and director by Peter Weir (Witness, The Truman Show). Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and fearless captain in Nelson's navy, accepts a mission... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian Publisher Comments Third in the series of Aubrey/Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hornblower Saga #2: Lieutenant Hornblower by C S Forester Publisher Comments When the Renown's cruel captain goes insane and First Lieutenant Buckland has to assume command, the ship's officers are all put to the test. None comes through the ordeal better than the youngest, Horatio Hornblower.... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey-Maturin) by Patrick Obrian Publisher Comments Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a peacetime navy. When the Surprise is nearly sunk on her way... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Beat To Quarters :Hornblower 6 by C S Forester Publisher Comments "Before there was Patrick O'Brian, there was C. S. Forester, " said the Wall Street Journal in a recent review that described the eleven-volume series of Horatio Hornblower novels as "spellbinding."<P>This epic saga of turmoil and triumph on the... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sharpe's Eagle (#2) (Sharpe's Adventures) by Bernard Cornwell Publisher Comments Bernard Cornwell's action-packed series that captures the gritty texture of Napoleonic warfare--now beautifully repackaged Captain Richard Sharpe prepares to lead his men against the army of Napoleon at Talavera in what will be the bloodiest battle of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hundred Days by Patrick Obrian Publisher Comments Napoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead the French armies to triumph at Waterloo. In the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hornblower During the Crisis :Horn 11 by C S Forester Publisher Comments With the release of these three books, all eleven novels in C. S. Forester's bestselling series of naval adventure stories are now available in handsome new trade paperback editions.... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Letter of Marque by Patrick O'Brian Publisher Comments Captain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old friend Stephen Maturin, usually cast as a ship's surgeon to mask his discreet activities on behalf of British... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Harbors & High Seas 3RD Edition by Dean King Publisher Comments This indispensable guide to navigating the well-loved Aubrey-Maturin novels has been updated, with new chapters devoted to the final books in the series. Harbors and High Seas includes maps created exclusively for each of the novels in this world... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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