Name: Operación Mauricio (Iv) (in Spanish)
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Author: Patrick O'Brian
ISBN: 9788435064415

portada Operación Mauricio (Iv) (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Patrick O'Brian

Publisher

EDHASA

Language

Spanish

Pages

416

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9788435064415

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Operación Mauricio (Iv) (in Spanish)"

NUEVA EDICION REVISADA Las mejores novelas sobre el mar escritas en el siglo xx, Daily Mail Europa tiembla en pleno fragor de las guerras napoleonicas. Mientras tanto, el capitan Jack Aubrey esta en tierra, convertido en un caballero que disfruta de las comodidades de la vida domestica en su casa de campo: esposa, hijas, madre politica, criados... Sin embargo, en cuanto se le presenta la oportunidad de escapar de esos encantos, con la llegada de su amigo Stephen Maturin, que trae ordenes secretas para que se ponga al mando de una fragata, Aubrey la acepta con todas sus fuerzas. La nueva mision le ofrece todos los ingredientes de riesgo y aventura que el inquieto capitan aprecia: arrebatar a los franceses las islas Reunion y Mauricio, en el oceano Indico, para lo que tendran que doblar el cabo e Buena Esperanza. Pero pronto dos de los capitanes de la armada pondran en peligro las ordenes se agravan por dos de sus propios capitanes: lord Clonfert, hombre diletante que solo busca placer, y el capitan Corbett, cuya severidad empuja a su tripulacion al borde del motin. Esta es la cuarta entrega de una serie de novelas indispensables para los amantes de la novela historica de aventuras maritimas y las guerras napoleonicas. Un long-seller en todo el mundo de Patrick O'Brian

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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