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The truelove

Title:

The truelove

Alternate title:

Clarissa Oakes

Added Title:

Clarissa Oakes

Author:

O'Brian, Patrick, 1914-2000, author.

Series:

Aubrey/Maturin ;

Series Number:

15.

Summary:

While en route to Tonga to restore order, the crew of the British ship Surprise discovers a beautiful woman aboard who could identify a British double agent in the employ of Napoleon.

General Note:

Originally published under title: Clarissa Oakes. London : HarperCollins, 1992.

Physical Description:

298 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Subject Term:

Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Maturin, Stephen (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Ship physicians -- Fiction.

Ship captains -- Fiction.

Sea stories

Geographic Term:

Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton,

Publication Date:

1993

1992

ISBN:

9780393310160

Publication Information:

New York : W.W. Norton, 1993, c1992.

Call Number:

OBRIAN

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A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the sandwich islands at French instigation, and Captain Aubrey, R. N., Is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away in the cable-tier is an escaped female convict. To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies. Aubrey himself is won over and indeed strongly attracted to this woman who will not speak of her past. But only Aubrey's friend, Dr. Stephen Maturin, can fathom Clarissa's secrets: her crime, her personality, and a clue identifying a highly placed English spy in the pay of Napoleon's intelligence service.

In a thrilling finale, Patrick O'Brian delivers all the excitement his many readers expect: Aubrey and the crew of the Surprise impose a brutal pax Britannica upon the islanders in a pitched battle against a band of headhunting cannibals.

Author Notes

Patrick O'Brian is the author of twenty volumes in the highly respected Aubrey/Maturin series of novels.

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This entry in O'Brian's late-18th-century seafaring series will delight fans, while offering newcomers a good place to jump in. Here Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are assigned to help a Polynesian queen in her struggle with a Napoleon-backed rival, and a female convict is smuggled aboard by a midshipman in Australia. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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