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Title: The Wine-Dark Sea
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Narrator: Robert Hardy
Format: Abridged
Length: 3 hrs
Language: English
Release date: 06-16-05
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
At the opening of a voyage filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are in pursuit of a privateer sailing under American colours through the Great South Sea. Stephen's objective is to set the revolutionary tinder of South America ablaze to relieve the pressure on the British government which, already engaged in a death-struggle with a Europe dominated by Napoleon, has blundered into war with the young and uncomfortably vigorous United States. The shock and barbarity of the hand-to-hand fighting are sharpened by O'Brian's exact sense of period, his eye for landscape, and his feel for a ship under sail. His thrilling descriptions of hair-raising bloody actions make the listener grateful that he is watching from a distance.
© Patrick O'Brian; (P)2000 HarperCollins UK
Critic Reviews:
"[O'Brian] has shown us that in our literary silver age, authentic gold can still be mined....He is a man whose books you would dare to give to Sterne; whose conversation would have delighted Coleridge. It is his misfortune, but our great good luck, that he is our contemporary and not theirs." (The Times)
Members Reviews:
Volcanoes, travel in the Andes, icebergs
Good lengthy account of travelling through the Peruvian Andes which takes away from the nautical in nautical fiction. Another account of getting caught in the ice during fog around Cape Horn. Another loss of a rudder in the southern latitudes and another sea battle that almost happened. There were two sea battles actually; an incredibly easy one in the beginning and an incredibly non-existent one near the end. This book felt mostly like it was just another in a series of filler material. As I always say, the writing is excellent and it shows such an incredible amount of research necessary to tell the story in such detail. I have to admit to tiring of the perpetual filler material in each of the last three books. I hope O'Brian gets back to writing nautical adventures in this series. This is another book you could easily live without in this series if you so chose.
Hold on to your guide ropes, more high seas adventure awaits.
The continuing adventures of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin is nothing short of irresistible, dynamic pleasure. Storms, prizes, enemy vessels and spies, you'll inhale this installment of our favorite sailing duo.
Wonderful reading as you feel a member of the crew yourself.
A fascinating adventure, with prose as good as Dickens and lots of knowledge abut the 18th century, the Royal Navy, feats that ordinary men could routinely perform and the hardships and cruelties they endured. Must read all the books!
The best series even written
One has to be a lover of Patrick O'Brian to appreciate Book 16 of this sea-going, Napoleonic War series. If you are on Book 16, you already know what I mean. It is wonderful, adventurous, humorous and a definite page turner. You will never read novels as well written as O'Brian's works. If you haven't read any of the Aubrey/Maturin novels, you must begin at the beginning with "Master and Commander". Sit back and enjoy these great tales for months, even years to come.
Hint: Don't get upset if you don't understand the operation of the ship, with it's rigging and sails and masts. The reader doesn't have to most of the time. Just be amazed that Mr. O'Brian understood it all.
