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O n another of those annual returns to the Aubrey-Maturin series of books by Patrick O’Brian, I recently came across the passage in The Re...

A round the end of February I once more jumped into the Aubrey/Maturin series of novels by Patrick O’Brian. Like many other O’Brian fans, I ...

‘C ome, sir, cannot I prevail upon you to go to sea? A man-of-war is the very thing for a philosopher, above all in the Mediterranean: there...

P atrick O’Brian, the author best known for his roman fleuve series of novels featuring Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr Stephen Maturin, enjoyed...

‘A ll flesh is grass: and it has been said that the man who finds out how to make two blades of grass grow where one grew before serves the ...

W eather today has played some dismal notes on my frame of mind. Rain, sleet and finally snow in all its metropolitan inconvenience make me ...

R eading Patrick O’Brian today, I came upon a passage that, while not especially significant to the whole, gives an excellent sense of the w...

I n 1970 Patrick O’Brian began writing what was to become a long, extended series of twenty-one historical novels set during the Napoleonic ...