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Questions from happydork ! 1) Favourite TE...

Questions from happydork ! 1) Favourite TE Lawrence fact: Go! As a boy, he used to cycle from Oxford to London to listen to lectures, then cycle home. All in an afternoon. Also, he used to break into churches to do brass rubbing. Edwardian middle-class vandalism! 2) Who's your favourite author, and why? My favourite author changes every five minutes. Possibly it's Patrick O'Brian, because...

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Historical Fiction List

In what are sure to be controversial choices, Rebecca Stott gives her list of the five best books of historical fiction. I'd add - no great surprise here - the Aubrey-Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brian set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic wars; Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman which gives us Russia during World War II; and, hey, why not War and Peace? When I was young, historical...

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"Why feedback can be just so much noise"

... from airline pilots and weather forecasters to sports announcers and Captain Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander novels—to make his point. All these decision makers saw things that others didn't. They used their expertise to pick up cues and to discern patterns and trends. We can make better decisions, Klein tells us, if we are prepared for complexity and ambiguity...

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One Minute With: Ian Blair

... a favourite author and why you like her/him I am very impressed by the long sequence of novels by Patrick O'Brian about the post-Nelsonian navy, not just because of the detailed recreation of the period but because O'Brian created one of the great male relationships of modern literature, in Captain Jack Aubrey and his ship's doctor and British spy, Stephen Maturin. Describe...

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Log book’s discovery reveals how Navy caught up with Bounty mutineer

... the Briton, which also visited Peru and the Galápagos Islands, may have been the inspiration for Patrick O’Brian’s novel Far Side of the World, which was made into a film starring Russell Crowe. The mutiny on the Bounty has also been the subject of several Hollywood films. But by the time Hoodthorp and the 300 crew of the Briton arrived at Pitcairn Island all but one of the original...

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Exclusive Weekend Offered For Fans Of Naval Novelist

A lower gundeck dinner in HMS Victory, Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar, is the centrepiece of a weekend in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard devoted to the leading fictional chronicler of Nelson’s Navy, Patrick O’Brian. Brought to a new generation of fans by the film Master and Commander, starring Russell Crowe [...] Exclusive Weekend Offered For Fans Of Naval...

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Not Free, but Cheap

... pay for your books, of course). There are that many good, interesting books in our bins. There's Patrick O'Brian and Pam Houston. There's Ross King's fascinating book on Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel. We've got Simon Winchester's history of the volcanic eruption at Krakatoa, we've got David Hajdu's book on Dylan and company in the Greenwich Village days. And what is The...

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Old Habits, pt 8

... this time period do a decent job of capturing the events, but none in my opinion do it better than Patrick O'Brian did in his books. The language, the etiquette, the cultural presumptions, the food, all of it came together for a fascinating peek into the life of that time period which seems so real and so accurate I would almost feel transplanted hundreds of years ago.O'Brian...

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FLOATING GOLD - first step in book production

... FLOATING GOLD is a nautical fiction adventure which follows the tradition of the CS Forester and Patrick O’Brian stories. Margaret Muir (Tasmania)