基本信息出版社：W. W. Norton & Company
页码：355 页
出版日期：1991年08月
ISBN：0393308138
条形码：9780393308136
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Aubrey/Maturin Series
外文书名：战争财富

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Jack Aubrey, commander of the best-armed frigate in the Royal Navy, leaves th Dutch East Indies to return to England in a dispatch vessel, but the outbrea of the War of 1812 delays his journey and draws him into bloody battle.
作者简介 Patrick O'Brian, until his death in 2000, was one of our greatest contemporary novelists. He is the author of the acclaimed Aubrey--Maturin tales and the biographer of Joseph Banks and Picasso. He is the author of many other books including Testimonies, and his Collected Short Stories. In 1995 he was the first recipient of the Heywood Hill Prize for a lifetime's contribution to literature. In the same year he was awarded the CBE. In 1997 he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Trinity College, Dublin. He lived for many years in South West France and he died in Dublin in January 2000. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
编辑推荐 Amazon.com Review
This time it's the War of 1812 that gets in the way of Captain Jack Aubery's plans. Caught en route to England in a dispatch vessel, Aubrey and Maturin are soon in the thick of a typically bloody naval engagement. Next stop: an American prison, from which only Maturin's cunning allows them to engineer an exit.

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The Fortune of War is a marvellously full-flavored, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat. -- Times Literary Supplement