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This category is for images of book covers for works by English novelist Patrick O'Brian. Media in category "Patrick O'Brian book cover images" The following 29 files are in this category, out of 29 total.
Patrick O'Brian CBE (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series. These sea novels are set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centre on the friendship of the English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician ...
The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—by English author Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centring on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, a physician, natural philosopher, and intelligence agent.
Master and Commander is a nautical historical novel by the English author Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1969 in the US and 1970 in the UK.The book proved to be the start of the 20-novel Aubrey–Maturin series, set largely in the era of the Napoleonic Wars, on which O'Brian continued working until his death in 2000.
John "Jack" Aubrey CB MP JP FRS, [1] [2] is a fictional character in the Aubrey–Maturin series of novels by Patrick O'Brian.The series of novels portrays his rise from lieutenant to rear admiral in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.
O'Brien was born in 1899 to an Irish-American Catholic family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [1] All four of his grandparents had come from Ireland. The O'Briens were originally from County Cork. His grandfather, Patrick O'Brien, for whom he was named, was an architect who was killed while trying to break up a saloon fight in New York City.
Patrick O'Brian characters (5 P) Pages in category "Novels by Patrick O'Brian" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
The Fortune of War is the sixth historical novel in the Aubrey–Maturin series by British author Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1979.It is set during the War of 1812 and much of the story takes place in Boston, Massachusetts.