The Unknown Shore
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The second book Patrick O'Brian wrote about the sea and a brilliant
sequel to The Golden Ocean. As in The Golden Ocean, The Unknown
Shore tells the tale of another ill-fated ship on Anson's
expedition round the world - the Wager. Parted from her squadron in
the fearful storms off Cape Horn, the Wager struggles on alone up
the ironbound coast of Chile, before she is driven onto rocks and
sinks.The survivors include Jack Byron, a midshipman, and his
eccentric protege Toby, an alarmingly naive surgeon's mate with a
single-minded devotion to zoology. Faced with a surplus of rum, a
disappearing stock of food, and a hard, detested captain, the
survivors soon descend into trouble of every kind, including
drunkeness, mutiny and bloodshed. As they make their way northwards
under the guidance of a band of stony and depraved Indians, they at
last find safety and good treatment in Valparaiso.Admirers of
O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels will see in Jack Byron a
matter-of-fact, bluff precursor to the great Jack Aubrey. Whilst
Toby, raging in Greek against a corrupt Member of Parliament,
stripped by thieves in the Farthing Pie House, asking the Commodore
to carry his snake, arousing the darkest suspicions in the Chilean
Inquisition, is an amiable companion whose vagaries afford endless
diversion on a hard and dramatic journey.
Výber kníh autorov
Harper Collins ,
O'Brian Patrick
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Harper Collins,
O'Brian Patrick
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Slovart
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Slovart
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