|
|
Patrick O'Brian
Robert Hardy
Publisher : Harper Collins UK
Duration : 3 hours 7 minutes
Categories : Historical
War & Military
Download Price : $12.75
H.M.S. Surprise follows the variable fortunes of Captain Jack Aubrey's career in Nelson's navy as he attempts to hold his ground against admirals, colleagues and the enemy, accepting a commission to convey a British ambassador to the East Indies. The voyage takes him and his friend Stephen Maturin to the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and through the archipelago of spice island where the French have a near-overwhelming local superiority.
"O'Brian is astonishingly good"
THE TIMES
"I don't see that anyone could wish for anything better than Mr O'Brian's sea stories"
SUNDAY TIMES
Reviews
‘Few, very few, books have made my heart thump with excitement. H.M.S. Surprise managed it. [O’Brian’s] erudition is phenomenal, as is his capacity for creating another completely believable world. I might have given a better idea of this book if I had simply written 600 times the word
“superb”.’ Helen Lucy Burke, Irish Times
‘As sinewy, and virile as its predecessors, this is a copper-bottomed investment for the numerous fans of Jack Aubrey… we sail breathlessly through perilous seas to the Far East. Vivid and authentic as is Mr O’Brian’s mastery of period and life at sea, it is in his creation of characters that he excels.’
Sarah Lake, Daily Telegraph
Other titles you may be interested in
Jimmy Carter
Edward Herrmann
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Duration : 5 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Historical
Pre 1900
Download Price : $26.00 $17.95
The first work of fiction by a President of the United States - a sweeping novel of the American South and the War of Independence. More info... |
Patrick O'Brian
Robert Hardy
Publisher : Harper Collins UK
Duration : 2 hours 49 minutes
Categories : Historical
War & Military
Download Price : $12.75
Jack Aubrey is a naval officer, a post-captain of experience and capacity. When ' The Letter of Marque' opens he has been struck off... More info... |
David Liss
Michael Page
Publisher : Brilliance Audio Inc
Duration : 13 hours 41 minutes
Categories : Historical
Crime
Detective
Detective
Thrillers
Download Price : $24.95
Benjamin Weaver, the quick-witted pugilist turned private investigator, first introduced in the Edgar Award-winning novel, THE CONSPIRACY OF PAPER, returns. More info... |
Jimmy Perry and David Crofts
Full Cast Performance
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Duration : 1 hour 50 minutes
Categories : British
Humor
Radio Shows
Historical
Comedy
Download Price : $13.49
Four BBC Radio 4 Episodes from Jimmy Perry and David Crofts classic wartime comedy. More info...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography
Biographical
Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
|
|
