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The Golden Ocean [electronic resource]

O'Brian, Patrick2023

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Summary

The Golden Ocean is the first novel Patrick O’Brian ever wrote about the sea. The novel shares the same sense of excitement and the rich humour of the Aubrey-Maturin novels, invoking the eloquent style and attention to historical detail that O’Brian readers admire so muchPeter Palafox, son of a poor Irish parson, has never even seen a ship before signing on as a midshipman on the Centurion to seek his fortune. Together with his lifelong friend Sean O’Mara, he embarks on a journey in which they encounter disease, disaster, shipwreck and success, growing through misadventures into a capable seaman.Based on Commodore George Anson’s four-year circumnavigation of the globe that began in 1740, The Golden Ocean is a rousing novelistic retelling of a particularly colourful voyage that would become one of the most notorious exploits in British naval history.Written in 1956, this is a tale certain to please not only the many admirers of O’Brian, but any reader with an adventurous soul.