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

by Dean King, John B. Hattendorf

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780805066142
Publisher:	Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	10/01/2000
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	341,324
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.31(h) x 0.86(d)

About 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.

Editorial Reviews

“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

From the Publisher

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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