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Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda-Leopard by Patrick O'Brian
(under his original name Richard Patrick Russ.),
--A stark tale encompassing the cruelty and beauty of the natural world, and a clear demonstration of the storytelling gift that would later produce the Aubrey/Maturin series. Patrick O'Brian, in ill-health at age 14, began creating his first fictional character, the Panda-Leopard who appears in this picaresque, enchanting, and quite bloodthirsty story. The creature tells his life story in his words and through his eyes. Caesar, published in 1930 when POB was 15, contains the dry wit and unsentimental precision O'Brian readers savor and earned him critical approval from which he later walked away.
--H, Book Number B00823. List price $21.95, your price $18.65
--P, Book Number B00989. List price $11.00, your price $9.35
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Golden Ocean; The, by Patrick O'Brian,
--Patrick O'Brian seems to like the theme of the impoverished parson's son who joins the navy to make his fortune. That the son is Irish and we get to see a bit of Ireland as O'Brian collects his characters before putting to sea provides a bonus to readers. Midshipman Palafox joins Anson's fleet (after the usual interminable wait and until their secret is well known generally). The fleet plans to seek out Spanish ships, particularly the Manila ships, in the Pacific which means a trip around Cape Horn, a trip endangered by each day's delay into winter. Since this trip's success has been assured by history and O'Brian writes about the vast treasure in all three books covered in this summary, The Golden Ocean becomes a book about the terrible human price and the emotional roller coaster ride Palafox and his mates share.
--H, Book Number B00034. List price $22.50, your price $14.60
--P, Book Number B00278. List price $13.95, your price $11.85
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Hussein: An Entertainment by Patrick O'Brian (under his
original name Richard Patrick Russ.),
--A glittering adventure set in India at the height of the British Raj. The New York Times compared this book to Kipling's Kim and called it "a gorgeous entertainment." POB, in his early twenties, tells about a young mahout, his childhood and life in India, and his relationship and adventures with elephants, a beautiful and elusive girl, and arranges the death of a rival suitor. Fleeing the victim's family, Hussein experiences snake-charming, sword-fighting, spying, thievery, and the India of bazaars, temples, and beautiful women.
--H, Book Number B00824. List price $23.95, your price $20.35
--P, Book Number B00990. List price $13.00, your price $11.05
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Men-of-war: Life In Nelson's Navy by Patrick O'Brian,
--A concise overview, richly illustrated, of the historical background to the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin novels and a companion to Patrick O'Brian's sea novels, a straightforward exploration of what daily life in Nelson's navy was really like, for everyone from the captain down to the rawest recruit. What did they eat? What songs did they sing? What was the schedule of watches? how were the officers and crew paid, and what was the division of prize-money? (W. W. Norton) H, Book Number B00098. List price $23.00, your price $19.55
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Patrick O'Brian: Collector's Set: Caesar-Hussein by Patrick Russ/Patrick O'Brian,
--Two books
in a sumptuous edition by The British Library. Caesar and
Hussein: an entertainment form the collector's set, an edition limited to 1000
(of which 250 were signed and numbered, see below) published by the British Library as a tribute to O'Brian. Born Richard Patrick Russ, Patrick O'Brian legally changed his name shortly after WWII and subsequent books were signed with his new name. These two,
Caesar and Hussein were originally published under his Russ name and received great praise for one so young. With this publication O'Brian acknowledged these works as his and provided the set with a new Foreword. Two volumes, in pictorial boards with leather spines, in a red cloth slipcase.
--H, Book Number B00640. List price $195.00, your price $195.00
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Autographed by Patrick Russ/Patrick O'Brian,
--Set signed by Patrick O'Brian. Two books, Caesar and Hussein: an entertainment form the collector's set, an edition limited to 1000 published by the British Library as a tribute to O'Brian. Born Richard Patrick Russ, Patrick O'Brian legally changed his name shortly after WWII and all subsequent books he wrote were signed with his new name. These two,
Caesar and Hussein were originally published under his Russ name and received great praise for one so young. With this publication O'Brian acknowledged these works as his and provided the set with a new Foreword. Two volumes, in pictorial boards with leather spines, in a red cloth slipcase, autographed,
numbered and limited to 250 sets. H, Book Number B00808. List price $600.00,
your price $429.00
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Picasso: A Biography by Patrick O'Brian,
--Provides insights as much into Patrick O'Brian's reclusive life as to Picasso's. O'Brian who had a personal knowledge of Picasso uses Picasso's work to look more closely at the man and his life. P, Book Number B00553. List price $14.95, your price $12.70
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Rendezvous, And Other Stories by Patrick O'Brian,
--A collection of startlingly vivid short stories from the author of the Aubrey/Maturin series. Confirms the author's place in the front rank of short-story writers as well as novelists. These are not sea stories, but will be treasured by O'Brian fans even so.
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Testimonies, A Novel by Patrick O'Brian,
--An ailing college professor seeks refuge in a far back corner of Wales where he learns about the comfort of
homogeneity and the extent to which families will go to protect themselves against outsiders. A critically acclaimed novel thought to have been POB's first until his true background was known. Readers will find confirmation of Patrick O'Brian's great gifts, fore-shadowing of future books, and some insight into POB's character.
--H, Book Number B00115. List price $20.95, your price $17.80
--P, Book Number B00116. List price $11.95, your price $10.15
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Unknown Shore; The, by Patrick O'Brian,
--An immediate precursor to Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series, The Unknown Shore displays all the splendid prose and attention to detail that O'Brian's readers expect. Patrick O'Brian's first novel about the sea, The Golden Ocean, took inspiration from Commodore Anson's fateful circumnavigation of the globe in 1740. In The Unknown Shore, O'Brian returns to this rich source and mines it brilliantly for another, quite different tale of exploration and adventure. The Wager was parted from Anson's squadron in the fierce storms off Cape Horn and struggled alone up the coast of Chile until she was driven against the rocks and sank. The survivors were soon involved in trouble of every kind. A surplus of rum, a disappearing stock of food, and a hard, detested captain soon drove them into drunkenness, mutiny, and bloodshed. After many months of privation, a handful of men made their way northward under the guidance of a band of Indians, at last finding safety in Valparaiso.
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