Name: 10. La Costa m s Lejana del Mundo (Narrativas Históricas) (in Spanish)
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Author: Patrick O'brian
ISBN: 9788435006521

portada 10. La Costa m s Lejana del Mundo (Narrativas Históricas) (in Spanish)

10. La Costa m s Lejana del Mundo (Narrativas Históricas) (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Patrick O'Brian

Publisher

Edhasa

Year

2004

Language

Spanish

Pages

432

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

8435006522

ISBN13

9788435006521

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "10. La Costa m s Lejana del Mundo (Narrativas Históricas) (in Spanish)"

Jack Aubrey y Stephen Maturin se embarcan en Gibraltar rumbo al Atlántico Sur con la delicada misión de interceptar a una fragata estadounidense que está haciendo estragos entre los barcos balleneros británicos que operan en esa zona. Eso dará origen a la persecución naval más emocionante que se ha narrado nunca, a través de todo el Atlántico, hasta las siempre peligrosas costas del Cabo de Hornos, el Paso de Drake, y a través del Pacífico. Ver Serie Completa Ver Serie Completa en Bolsillo

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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