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	Aubrey/Maturin Quiz Book by Bo Kerrihard, --671 questions and answers based on Patrick O'Brian's Best-Selling novels of a British Officer in the Napoleonic Wars. Diagrams of a 19th century Fighting Ship, Sails and Rigging. Plus cross=references to more than 600 words and phrases ... Naval, Archaic, Arcane, and Uniquely O'Brian ... Found in the Aubrey/Maturin Novels. The basis for games, bar bets, and lissun get-togethers. Some of my favorites. Question #448 Explain cricket. A: Stephen would agree with you: There is no explaining the inexplicable. #135 In her correspondence, Sophie had a habit which bemused Jack. What was it? #605 By the time of The Commodore, Jack had assembled a small fleet of his own. What constituted Aubrey's navy and how did he come by it? P, Book Number B00637. List price $18.00, your price $5.40 Go to top.
	Cross-Sections Of A Man-of-war by Stephen Biesty, --Children and adults will study this book on the floor together. A large format, very detailed, painstakingly illustrated book whose very busy art work and clever graphics provides successive cross-sections, bow to stern, of the HMS Victory, Lord Nelson's flagship from the late 1700s. H, Book Number B00083. your price $20.70 Go to top.

	Harbors and High Seas (2nd Ed.): A Map Book And Geographical Guide To The Aubrey/Maturin by Maps William Clips, Dean King With John Hattendorf, --An indispensable tool for navigating O'Brian's acclaimed novels, from the authors of A Sea of Words. One of the greatest pleasures for fans of Patrick O'Brian's immensely popular novels is following their heroes Captain Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin to exotic locales around the world. But navigating along with the novels can be a daunting enterprise. Dean King, author of the highly successful O'Brian lexicon A Sea of Words, now offers O'Brian fans the ultimate geographical guide. Each novel is given its own chapter containing maps--created exclusively for this book--that identify all the routes, ports of call, battles, crossing, and storms relevant to the story. Every locale featured in the novels is marked, and each is listed in the book's comprehensive index. Additional maps of London and the British Isles orient the reader to much of the novels' land-based action. Period maps and illustrations add a sense of time and place, and an introductory essay provides basic information on what was common knowledge during the great age of sail: major currents, trade winds, expected sailing times, dangerous waters, and much more. The 2nd edition contains the lastest books in the series, The Yellow Admiral and The Hundred Days. P, Book Number B00674. List price $19.95, your price $16.95 Go to top.
	Harbors and High Seas(3rd) by Dean King, --An indispensable tool for navigating O'Brian's acclaimed novels, from the authors of A Sea of Words. One of the greatest pleasures for fans of Patrick O'Brian's immensely popular novels is following their heroes Captain Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin to exotic locales around the world. But navigating along with the novels can be a daunting enterprise. Dean King, author of the highly successful O'Brian lexicon A Sea of Words, now offers O'Brian fans the ultimate geographical guide. Each novel is given its own chapter containing maps--created exclusively for this book--that identify all the routes, ports of call, battles, crossing, and storms relevant to the story. Every locale featured in the novels is marked, and each is listed in the book's comprehensive index. Additional maps of London and the British Isles orient the reader to much of the novels' land-based action. Period maps and illustrations add a sense of time and place, and an introductory essay provides basic information on what was common knowledge during the great age of sail: major currents, trade winds, expected sailing times, dangerous waters, and much more. The 3rd edition contains all twenty books in the series. P, Book Number B00889. List price $21.00, your price $17.85 Go to top.
	Heart of Oak: A Sailor's Life in Nelson's Navy by James P. McGuane, --From tar-ladles and snuff-boxes to sailmaker's fids and carronades: a gorgeous photographic essay onthe nautical worlds of Jack Aubrey. The extraordinary photography in this book was inspired by the author's reading of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels. In small museums along the English coast, and in private collections, James McGuane has recorded artifacts recovered from shipwrecks and preserved by modern conservation techniques. Taken together, these unique treasures provide a window onto the everyday life of sailors and officers in the Royal Navy of the Napoleonic era. Thanks to advances in marine archaeology, it is often possible to establish the exact identity of a wrecked warship, along with the date and circumstances of its sinking. We are thus provided with a moment frozen in time: tools, clothing, utensils, weapons, and fragments of the ship itself startlingly intact. These photographs bring home to the reader-as words alone cannot-what a sailor's life in that time was really like. Also photographed here is Admiral Horatio Nelson's flagship HMS Victory, proudly preserved at Portsmouth. Victory survived the great fleet action at Trafalgar, where Nelson himself died, and it is still a commissioned ship in the Royal Navy. H, Book Number B01093. List price $49.95, your price $34.95 Go to top.
	Lobscouse and Spotted Dog by Lisa Grossman, --Here at last in paperback--the cookbook that Patrick O'Brian's fans have been craving. A Glass of wine with you! Patrick O'Brian's much-beloved protagonist Jack Aubrey declares, in Post Captain, "How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuck." So what better way to celebrate the joys of the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series than with this long-awaited cookbook, full of the food and drink that so often complement Jack and Stephen's travels? In these pages, you will find authentic early nineteenth century recipes for several mouth watering feasts, such as A Great Raised Veal, and Ham Pie, Christmas Pudding, roast Buffalo, Jam Roly Poly, Steak and Kidney Pudding, Syllabub, Treacle-Dowdy, Trifle, March pane Cakes, Pig's Trotters,of course, Spotted Dog. P, Book Number B00851. List price $16.95, your price $14.40 Go to top.
	Medicine Under Sail by Zachary B. Friedenberg, --Examines health issues--from malnutrition to epidemics--and their effects on naval history from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. 25 Illus. Notes, Glossary, bibliog, index. H, Book Number B01100. List price $28.95, your price $24.60 Go to top.
	Nelson's Navy, The Ships, Men And Organization 1793-1815 by Brian Lavery, --A perfect reference companion for O'Brian's Aubrey and Maturin books. Recommended by O'Brian at his National Archives lecture. Use it as "salt" for the O'Brian series, (and a unique coffee table book for office or den). Content includes contemporary drawings, new illustrations, photographs, and graphic explanations. Partial chapter list: Naval history of England's war with France, ship types, shipbuilding, officers, recruitment and seamen, seamanship, shipboard life, and battle tactics. H, Book Number B00105. List price $56.95, your price $48.40 Go to top.
	Oxford Companion To Ships And The Sea; The, by Peter Kemp, --Everything nautical under one cover. This companion includes biographies of famous seamen, descriptions of famous and no-so-famous aval battles, stories of grat ships and great races, entries on seafaring literture, surveys of marine designers and engineers, language and lorek principles of shipbuilding, navigation, and much more. Exhaustive. Many drawings. Clearest presentation of catharpings. P, Book Number B00047. List price $27.50, your price $23.35 Go to top.
	Patrick O'Brian: Critical Essays And A Bibliography by Arthur Cunningham, --A valuable addition to your Patrick O'Brian collection. A "thank you" from the British Library to Patrick O'Brian for his lifetime of writing; a group of writers expressing their "appreciation" of his work. Contains a comprehensive bibliography of POB's work, his translations, their publication and reviews, and his reviews of other books. The book has five sections: a brief O'Brian autobiography; Literary Reviews by R. Ollard, J. Bayley, and Charlton Heston; Historical Perspective by N. A. M. Rodgers, B. Lavery (author of Nelson's Navy), L. J. West; two O'Brian short Stories; and an extraordinarily detailed Bibliography accompanied by a forty year collection of O'Brian reviews. The book's "centerfold" is a plate (I think by Lavery) with the profile of the HMS Surprise which, it turns out, actually existed. H, Book Number B00106. List price $23.95, your price $23.95 Go to top.
	Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed by Dean King, -- A must read for Patrick O'Brian fans. King pulls together much informatoion about POB and his work, both before and after he legally changed his name, the biography tells the story of a writer devoted to his craft and his wife, Mary, through years of privation and seclusion only to achieve world-wide recognition and financial rewards in the last decade of his life. London Sunday Times review, Nick Rennison PATRICK O'BRIAN: A Life Revealed by Dean King A thoroughly engaging biography frequently rests on the essential mystery of its subject, and O'Brian passes that test with flying colours. He invented much of his past - including his Irishness - and broke contact with his family; he laboured for decades over his novels before Captain Aubrey and his surgeon sidekick Maturin came to the attention of the wider world and achieved "overnight success" for him in the 1990s. Despite a marked lack of co-operation (and a certain degree of hindrance), King manages to unravel much of O'Brian's life and remains scrupulously fair. But yet again, one is presented with a portrait of a writer whose most complex creation was H, Book Number B00778. List price $27.50, your price $23.35 Go to top.
	Persons, Animals, Ships, and Cannon in the Aubrey-Maturin Sea Novels of Patrick O'Brian by Anthony Gary Brown, --This book catalogs every person, animal, ship and cannon mentioned by name in Patrick O'Brian's series on the maritime adventures of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin. The novels, renowned for their far-ranging web of wit and allusion, teem with thousands of characters and ships, both imaginary and historical. From Master and Commander to The Hundred Days, this dictionary distinguishes the fictional from the factual, making a useful series companion for both the casual reader and the most ardent O'Brian fans. Each of the more than 4,500 alphabetized entries provides a reference to the novels and chapters in which the topic appears. Additionally, biographical notes on the historical figures are included, with sources provided in an annotated bibliography. A native of England raised in a Royal Navy family, Anthony Gary Brown earned his Ph.D. at Oxford. He is a writer and business consultant living in Los Angeles. The author adds: incidentally, may I correct the impression that my own PASC is a mere concordance (ie a context-free listing of terms and their occurrence)? I'm partly responsible for this myself as I called it such way back when its preliminary version was an [internet] offering. In fact it is more of a biographical dictionary of the people and ships in the canon. You get full contextual details of who they are and what they do (together with extensive cross-referencing and notes on POB's slips and inconsistencies). You also get full notes of the historical origins of the people, ships and incidents. For example: an Index can tell you where Prof. Ebenezer Graham is mentioned in the canon, and in what regards: it can't tell you, as PASC does, that's he's part-based on the real Prof. Hugh Cleghorn. An index will tell you who supposedly owned Potoooooooo the race-horse (because that's in the canon), but not how he was pronounced, who he really was and which of his real equine relatives are also mentioned in the canon. P, Book Number B00692. List price $35.00, your price $22.00 Go to top.
	POB Stocking Stuffer by , --A combination of the A-M quiz book and the Duet bumper sticker. Price includes postage. P, Book Number B01126. your price $10.00 Go to top.
	Port-Wine Sea: A Parody by Susan Wenger, --The Port-Wine Sea is a rousing parody of the best historical fiction ever written. It is a story about a British naval captain during the Napoleonic War, and his friend, a naval physician/espionage agent. They set sail once again aboard "H.M.S. Aghast" during the War of 1812 to demonstrate to the upstart Colonies the errors of their ways. The doctor/spy tries to establish liaison with the Creek Indians to create a diversion to the main British assault. Meanwhile the noble Captain is diverted by a teenaged Maryland vixen. Along the way, they encounter a skittish horse, a demure skunk, a whooping crane, and an escaped colony of termites aboard the ship. P, Book Number B00027. List price $12.95, your price $12.95 Go to top.
	Sea Of Words 3rd by Dean King, --While primarily a dictionary of the more inaccessible words used in Patrick O'Brian's naval series, you'll find essays describing the British naval establishment and naval medicine in Jack Aubrey's time. P, Book Number B00890. List price $16.00, your price $13.60 Go to top.
	Sea Of Words, 2nd Ed. by Dean King, --A combination encyclopedia and dictionary of the more inaccessible words used in Patrick O'Brian's naval series, but you'll find essays describing the British naval establishment and naval medicine in Jack Aubrey's time. To this edition was added a timeline of the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. Contains only the first 18 of the 20 Aubrey-Maturin novels but with considerable savings. P, Book Number B00437. List price $14.95, your price $8.20 Go to top.
	Sea Of Words, 2nd Ed. by Dean King with John B. Hattendorf and J. Worth Est, --A combination encyclopedia and dictionary of the more inaccessible words used in Patrick O'Brian's naval series, but you'll find essays describing the British naval establishment and naval medicine in Jack Aubrey's time. To this edition was added a timeline of the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. Contains only the first 18 of the 20 Aubrey-Maturin novels but with considerable savings. H, Book Number B00436. List price $30.00, your price $16.50 Go to top.