Bookmark this site  

H.M.S."Surprise"

Editorial Reviews

Buy-Bay.com Review
The stakes are high as HMS Surprise opens, and actor Robert Hardy's sterling reading never lets you forget them. Hardy makes Patrick O'Brian's third novel of high-seas adventure--written in 1973 and set mainly in 1805 on the waters surrounding India and the Orient--seem as immediate as an overdrawn checking account. Money plays a big role, and Captain Jack Aubrey stands to make a lot of it. All he has to do is find Napoleon's fleet--and take their gold away from them. (Running time: three hours, two cassettes) --Lou Schuler  --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal
These two selections represent a series of abridged audiobook versions of O'Brian's works narrated by Robert Hardy, that most blustery and unstudied of British actors. Hardy reads the stories cold, but here it works. He uses his voice to evoke everything from brutality to mannered drawing-room excesses to the physical threat of a storm at sea. The stories are superb depictions of life on a British man-of-war and incorporate O'Brian's exquisitely accurate historical detail (Testimonies, Audio Reviews, LJ 7/96). The friendship of protagonists Capt. Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin plays out against an expanse of ocean, from India to the Atlantic, with a full complement of battles and adventures at sea for devotees of naval fiction. Highly recommended.?Mark Pumphrey, Polk Cty. P.L., Columbus, NC
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.  --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
 
 


Category: 102
Condition: New
ISBN: 0006499171  Published: 1996-09-02
Author: Patrick O'Brian  
Publisher: Harper





                      
                      
                      



Tags: H M H M S H M S 
 
 
Suggested:
Mr Bean's Holiday Joke Book
Midnight's Children
Mundane Astrology: Introduction to the Astrology of Nations and Groups (Astrology Handbooks)
Made to be Broken
Muslim American Youth: Understanding Hyphenated Identities Through Multiple Methods (Qualitative Studies in Psychology)
Mansfield Park
My Family and Other Animals