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The Wine-dark Sea

By: Patrick O'Brian
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 0006499317
ISBN-13: 9780006499312
Released: 01 Sep 1997
RRP: £7.99
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One of the best - By: CMH, 03 Feb 2008
This is one of the best episodes in the long saga of Stephen & Jack (impossibly long, of course). All the wit & adventure you expect only to a higher more refined degree. It is essential to treat the books as a long novel starting from the beginning 'Master & Commander'. Within this there are high points (which do not imply low points), for me these are; Post Captain, HMS Surprise, Desolation Island, The Surgeons Mate, Treasons Harbour, The Reverse of the Medal & Wine Dark Sea.
If you've got this far.. - By: , 02 Jul 2001
...you will not be disappointed. The books opens with a sea-chase, but Maturin is quickly embroiled with the tangled politics of Peru under the Spanish Empire, while Jack Aubrey is at sea snapping up every prize he can find. Though the action is gripping as in any of O'Brian's books, as usual along the way there is plently of time to be side-tracked into discussions of the Knipperdolling sect, utopian colonies & the flora & fauna of South America. The plot isn't one of his best, but by now these are more slices of life than stories with a clear beginning middle & end, & as ever it's the characters who keep you reading till the end.