Beasts Royal: Twelve Tales of Adventure
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (554 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 000815466X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 324 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Here fully thirty years before Master and Commander was published is the unmistakable texture of O’Brian’s historical fiction. Hussein has it all: the immersion in another world, full of local colour, the delight in a specialised vocabulary, the relish of male camaraderie, travel, treasure and fighting.’David Sexton, Evening Standard‘O’Brian admirers can now appreciate another dimension to his writing’ Alex O’Connell, The Times. ‘Both books are full of the fantasy that has made O’Brian’s seafaring yarns such a success. Like them, they are full of engaging adventures, curious lore, fond descriptions of food a
He is the author of the acclaimed Aubrey–Maturin tales and the biographer of Joseph Banks and Picasso. He lived for many years in South West France and he died in Dublin in January 2000.. In 1995 he was the first recipient of the Heywood Hill Prize for a lifetime’s contribution to literature. He is the author of many other books including Testimonies, and his Collected Short Stories. Patrick O’Brian, until his death in 2000, w
Beasts Royal is the second book written by Patrick O’Brian – made available, at last, for the first time since the 1930s and elegantly repackaged.On the indigo waters of the South Sea, the crew of a schooner are attacked by a man-eating tiger-shark. Amid the heat and dust of the Punjab, the snake-charmer Hussein escapes into the forest on the elephant that he trained when a mahout in his youth.With the dry wit and unsentimental precision O’Brian would come to be loved for, we see the drama and tragedies of the natural world unfold for these, as well as other birds and beasts, in these twelve tales of animal adventure that would appear tog