BookshelfThe Fortune of WarPatrick O'Brian
The Fortune of War
- jack aubrey (fictitious character)
- naval history
- stephen maturin (fictitious character)
- history
- ship captains
- ship physicians
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"A marvelously full-flavored, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat." —Times Literary Supplement
Captain Jack Aubrey arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the British Navy. He and his friend, surgeon Stephen Maturin, take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But before they can reach their destination, the War of 1812 breaks out. Bloody conflict precipitates them into new and unexpected predicaments where Maturin is reunited with his embattled love, Diana Villiers, and his past activities as a secret agent blow back on him with a vengeance.
Quotes by Patrick O'Brian
From Wikiquote"Come," he said, taking her by the hand and leading her to a distant sopha, "come and sit by me, and let us talk of bats."
"And pray, what in sea language is meant by a ship?" "She must have three square-rigged masts, sir," they told him kindly, "and a bowsprit; and the masts must be in three - lower, top and topgallant - for we never call a polacre a ship."
“But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”
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