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Obrians characteristically wry, understated fashion. Aubrey and maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the feverridden lagoons of the gulf of guinea to suppress the slave trade. Patrick o brian has emerged, in the opinion of many, as one of the greatest novelists in english. Aubreymaturin series project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. First edition of the 17th novel in obrians popular jack aubreystephen maturin series, in which his seafaring heroes must intercept french intruders in irish waters, signed by the author on the title page. Much of the commodore takes place on land, in sitting rooms and in drafty castles, but the roar of the great guns is never far from our hearing. It is here that jack aubrey is given a promotion and put in charge of a squadron of ships with two aims.
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