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Author Name
O'BRIAN, Patrick
Title Golden Ocean, The [Large Print]
Binding Hardcover; Ex-Lib
Book Condition Very Good in Very Good+ dust wrapper
Edition Large Print Edition
Size 472 pages
Publisher Bath Chivers Press c1956,1997
ISBN Number
0754010376 / 9780754010371
Seller ID 4511
Ex-library book with usual stamps and markings but in nice condition with clean pages and covers. Spine ends and top corners slightly bumped, book very slightly cocked. Dust wrapper, with no library markings, is lightly edgeworn and rubbed.; This is a large print book. It is not part of the Aubrey and Maturin adventure series. In this first historical sea novel by O'Brian, 'lifelong friends Peter and Sean leave Ireland as midshipmen with Commodore Anson's excursion to circumnavigate the Earth in 1740.' 'Shipboard life rings true, the story never flags and humor and adventures (mis-adventures?) abound.' O'Brian says he wrote the book in about six weeks, "laughing most of the time," and readers will believe him.
Nautical Historical Fiction England Ireland Large Print Large Type Sea Sailors 18th Century England
Price =
14.75 USD
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