Name: Clarissa Oakes, polizón a bordo (in Spanish)
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Author: Patrick O'Brian
ISBN: 9788435006859

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Clarissa Oakes, polizón a bordo (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Patrick O'Brian

Publisher

EDHASA

Year

2000

Language

Spanish

Pages

360

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

8435006859

ISBN13

9788435006859

Edited in

España

Edition No.

2000

Synopsis "Clarissa Oakes, polizón a bordo (in Spanish)"

La magnífica Surprise abandona por fin las odiosas costas australianas. en uno de los breves períodos de paz entre franceses e ingleses. Sin embargo. la tripulación se muestra inquieta. y el capitán Jack Aubrey tiene suficiente experiencia para detectar que algo extraño inquieta a sus hombres.Por su parte. el cirujano y espía Stepben Maturin sabe bien que los servicios secretos confían poco en una paz duradera y que debe mantenerse atento. La información acerca de los movimientos y las intenciones de los franceses siempre es valiosa. y puede llegar por los conductos más inesperados; incluso a través de un polizón de oscuro pasado. Lejos quedan ya los tiempos en que Aubrey y Maturin eran un par de jóvenes intrépidos y audaces; les ha llegado la hora de demostrar su sagacidad y su experiencia.

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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