Name: 3. La fragata Surprise (Narrativas Historicas)
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Author: Patrick O'Brian
ISBN: 9788435006187

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3. La fragata Surprise (Narrativas Historicas)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Patrick O'Brian

Publisher

Edhasa

Pages

456

Format

Paperback

ISBN

8435006182

ISBN13

9788435006187

Edited in

España

Synopsis "3. La fragata Surprise (Narrativas Historicas)"

al mando de la veloz fragata surprise, el capitán jack aubrey y el doctor stephen maturin zarpan de inglaterra con el objetivo de conducir a un embajador británico hasta su destino en las indias orientales. un viaje lleno de peligros y exotismo.

Patrick O'Brian

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Richard Patrick Russ, known as Patrick O'Brian, was a British writer and translator born in Buckinghamshire (not in Ireland, as he claimed) on December 12, 1914, and who died on January 2, 2000 in Dublin, Ireland

Son of a doctor of German origin and an Englishwoman of Irish descent, he was the eighth of a family of nine children. He published his first novel in 1930, when he was a teenager, but did not return to write this genre —although he did publish several stories, biographies, and children's books— until about forty years later, an American publisher suggested he write a work in the line of the late Cecil Scott Forrester, maintaining the genre of the "naval epic" that had made him famous

Following the editor's advice, O'Brian wrote the famous characters Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, who thrived in the environment of the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Master and Commander, the first title in the series they starred in, led to the successful film adaptation Master and Commander, which featured Russell Crowe

O'Brian was an excellent translator of French, as evidenced by his translations of Papillon by Henri Charrière and several works by Simone de Beauvoir. A writer jealous of his private life, little was known about his life until the publication of his biography by his stepson, Nikolai Tolstoy.

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