The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
"O'Brian is one author who can put a spark of character into the sawdust of time, and The Ionian Mi…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Puddings, my dear sir?' cried Graham. Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large."-Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)
"I do not like to sound discontented neither,' said Pullings, 'nor to crab any ship I belong to; but between you and me, Doctor, between you and me, she is more what we call a floating coffin than a ship."-Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)
"Having taken proper notice of the complexity of the machine [...] the infinity of ropes and cords, the sails, the varying forces that act upon them, and the skill required to manage the whole, directing the vessel in the desired direction [...] what pity it is that an art so important, so difficult, and so intimately concerned with the invariable laws of mechanical nature, should be so held by its possessors that it cannot improve but must die with each individual. Having no advantages of previous education, they cannot arrange their thoughts; they can scarcely be said to think. They can far less express or communicate to others the intuitive knowledge which they possess; and their art, acquired by habit alone, is little different from an instinct. We are as little entitled to expect improvement here as in the architecture of the bee or the beaver. The species cannot improve."-Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)
"Oh well,' said Jack: and then, 'Did you ever meet Bach?' 'Which Bach?' 'London Bach.' 'Not I.' 'I did. He wrote some pieces for my uncle Fisher, and his young man copied them out fair. But they were lost years and years ago, so last time I was in town I went to see whether I could find the originals: the young man has set up on his own, having inherited his master's music-library. We searched through the papers — such a disorder you would hardly credit, and I had always supposed publishers were as neat as bees — we searched for hours, and no uncle's pieces did we find. But the whole point is this: Bach had a father.' 'Heavens, Jack, what things you tell me. Yet upon recollection I seem to have known other men in much the same case.' 'And this father, this old Bach, you understand me, had written piles and piles of musical scores in the pantry.' 'A whimsical place to compose in, perhaps; but then birds sing in trees, do they not? Why not antediluvian Germans in a pantry?' 'I mean the piles were kept in the pantry. Mice and blackbeetles and cook-maids had played Old Harry with some cantatas and a vast great passion according to St Mark, in High Dutch; but lower down all was well, and I brought away several pieces, 'cello for you, fiddle for me, and some for both together. It is strange stuff, fugues and suites of the last age, crabbed and knotted sometimes and not at all in the modern taste, but I do assure you, Stephen, there is meat in it. I have tried this partita in C a good many times, and the argument goes so deep, so close and deep, that I scarcely follow it yet, let alone make it sing. How I should love to hear it played really well — to hear Viotti dashing away."-Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)
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1. Harbors and High Seas: An Atlas and Geographical Guide to the Complete Aubrey-Maturin Novels of Patrick O'Brian
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4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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2. Commodore Hornblower
By: C.S. Forester
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1812 and the fate of Europe lies in the hands of newly appointed Commodore Hornblower. Dispatched t… read more
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3. Hornblower and the Atropos
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4. Beat to Quarters
By: C.S. Forester
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June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua-a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty h… read more
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5. Lord Hornblower
By: C.S. Forester
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Weary of the war that he has waged nearly his entire life, Hornblower finds himself assigned an esp… read more
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6. Lieutenant Hornblower
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In this gripping tale of turmoil and triumph on the high seas, Horatio Hornblower emerges from his … read more
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7. 58 Minutes (Basis for the Film Die Hard 2)
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8. Hornblower and the Hotspur
By: C.S. Forester
3.66
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April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army j… read more
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9. Command a King's Ship (Richard Bolitho, #8)
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10. A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion to the Complete Seafaring Tales of Patrick O'Brian
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11. The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)
By: Patrick O'Brian
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Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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"Puddings, my dear sir?' cried Graham. Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large."-Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)
"I do not like to sound discontented neither,' said Pullings, 'nor to crab any ship I belong to; but between you and me, Doctor, between you and me, she is more what we call a floating coffin than a s…"-Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)
"Having taken proper notice of the complexity of the machine [...] the infinity of ropes and cords, the sails, the varying forces that act upon them, and the skill required to manage the whole, direct…"-Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)
"Oh well,' said Jack: and then, 'Did you ever meet Bach?' 'Which Bach?' 'London Bach.' 'Not I.' 'I did. He wrote some pieces for my uncle Fisher, and his young man copied them out fair. But they were …"-Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)
12. The French Admiral (Alan Lewrie, #2)
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14. The Gun Ketch (Alan Lewrie, #5)
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21. All Hands on Deck: A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World
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