Harbors and High Seas: An Atlas and Georgraphical Guide to the Complete Aubrey-Maturin Novels of Patrick O'Brian, Third Edition

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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-renowned series.

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Overview

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-renowned series.

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Editorial Reviews

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"Carefully maps and illustrates the oceans, ports, islands, and actions, book by book of the Aubrey-Maturin Series."—Los Angeles Times

"These battle and voyage maps greatly enhance the pleasure of O'Brian's salty tales O'Brian aficionados surely will make frequent use of Harbors and High Seas—a worthy, stirring guide to the world of the British Navy in the Age of Sail."—Pequot Pilot

"The assorted world travels of Aubrey and Maturin can leave you geographically adrift. With not a moment to lose, help is but a bookstore away. Harbors and High Seas. . . comes in handy if you're reading the series over a number of years an need a quick reminder of past plots."—Chicago Tribune

"The ideal Baedeker."—Kirkus Reviews

Kirkus Reviews
For armchair seafarers who who follow every adventure of Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin but have no idea where on earth Christmas Island is, let alone how far it is from Annamooka, here is the ideal (if unauthorized) Baedeker. Book by book, journey by journey, knot by knot, book packager King provides a geographical guide to Aubrey and Maturin's adventures. (Distinguishing between real locales and those invented by O'Brian was the worst part of the job, notes King.) Cartographer William Clipson provides maps. And maritime historian Hattendorft gives background on the patterns of winds and ocean currents—information so necessary to navigators—and informs us that, in the early 1790s, it would have taken 124 dys to sail from holland to Cape Town. In fact, all that's missing here is a do-it-yourself model of Aubrey's ship, HMS Surprise.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780805066142
  • Publisher: Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
  • Publication date: 10/28/2000
  • Edition description: Third Edition
  • Edition number: 3
  • Pages: 288
  • Sales rank: 230,009
  • Product dimensions: 7.37 (w) x 9.23 (h) x 0.81 (d)

Meet the Author

Dean King is the author of Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed (0-8050-5976-8) and Every Man Shall Do His Duty (0-8050-4609-7). He lives in Richmond, Virginia.

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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface to the Second Edition
Foreword 1
Not a Moment to Lose 9
Map Neat Diagram of the Winds: January to June 12
Map Neat Diagram of the Winds: July to December 14
Map Colonies and Trade Routes in 1814 20
Map England and Wales in 1812 35
Map Southern England 36
Map Ireland in 1812 39
Map London in 1812 40
Map Whitehall in 1812 43
Map Europe in 1812 44
Map Key 48
Ch. 1 Master and Commander: Mastering the Mediterranean 49
Ch. 2 Post Captain: England, the Continent, and a North Atlantic Showdown 58
Ch. 3 HMS Surprise: A Lively Time in the Med and a Surprise Voyage to the East Indies 71
Ch. 4 The Mauritius Command: Action in the Indian Ocean 79
Ch. 5 Desolation Island: From Hot Water in Hampshire to Shattering South Seas 88
Ch. 6 The Fortune of War: An Unlucky Voyage from the East Indies 96
Ch. 7 The Surgeon's Mate: From North America to the Baltic to the Tower in the Temple 103
Ch. 8 The Ionian Mission: Toil and Trouble in the Mediterranean 113
Ch. 9 Treason's Harbour: Fiasco in the Middle East 121
Ch. 10 The Far Side of the World: Around the Horn in a Hurry 129
Ch. 11 The Reverse of the Medal: Homeward Bound from the West Indies 137
Ch. 12 The Letter of Marque: Redemption in the Azores and on the Normandy Coast 145
Ch. 13 The Thirteen Gun Salute: False Starts and the East Indies 152
Ch. 14 The Nutmeg of Consolation: From the Java Sea to Sydney Cove 166
Ch. 15 The Truelove: An Urgent Detour to the Not-So-Pacific Island of Moahu 177
Ch. 16 The Wine-Dark Sea: South America at Last 184
Ch. 17 The Commodore: Great Guns on the Coasts of Africa and Ireland 192
Ch. 18 The Yellow Admiral: Rough Seas on the Brest Blockade 202
Ch. 19 The Hundred Days: Confusion to Boney, Encore! 212
Maritime Measures 223
Selected Bibliography 225
Author Notes 229
Index 231
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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 27, 2005

    Take it or leave it

    This is a nice reference to have if you want to grasp how all the places POB writes about relate to each other. There is a chapter for each of the A/M books. Each chapter includes maps and write-ups on places of the book. Most of the maps don't include as much detail as I'd like. The book'll help you locate cities and countries, but it won't go as far as locating specific harbors, capes, and inlets.

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