The Marine Art of Geoff Hunt (PB): Master Painter of the Naval World of Nelson and Patrick O'Brian (Maritime)
The Green Apple Core (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... 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...
Robert Hale Ltd Authors and Books (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... FLOATING GOLD is a nautical fiction adventure which follows the tradition of the CS Forester and Patrick O’Brian stories. Margaret Muir (Tasmania)
Ask Nicola (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Over at Sterling Editing I have a new blog post up , a discussion of some of Patrick O'Brian's masterful dialogue. There's an exercise--not an easy one--for those who want to try their hand.
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... The vaccine is currently unavailable to the twogirls because they are not at high risk. • Doctor Patrick O'Brian recalls being shocked at the , a country that apparently has some of the worst maternal care in the world. In efforts to address this issue, he started a program with the University College Hospital in London that works to distribute medicine to women in need and offer...
Robert Hale Ltd Authors and Books (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
... FLOATING GOLD is a maritime adventure inspired by the classic seafaring stories of CS Forester and Patrick O’Brian. Unlike Margaret Muir’s previous books, this novel targets a male audience.
Healthy Gopher (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Cinda contemplated what constitutes great American literature . Not being a professional writer, or a devout classicist, my literary consumption has been mostly popular stuff. Anne Perry, Robert Ludlum, Lois McMaster Bujold, Patrick O'Brian. I have read a couple of her recommendations, especially To Kill a Mockingbird. No two people being the same, of course I paused to consider what...
Google Maps Mania (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
The Patrick O'Brian Mapping Project The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of historical novels by Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars. The novels tell the adventures of Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin. You might be more aware of the characters from the movie Master and Commander, starring Russell Crowe, which...
GayGamer.net (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
... as Ice Age (not to be confused with Blue Sky Software who was responsible for Vectorman) . EA's Patrick O'Brian and Maxis Studio's Lucy Bradshaw will be the executive producers on the film, so there is some hope that it will fall in line with the games. But as I said, the very essence of the Spore experience is not conducive to a film adaptation. It may still be entertaining, but...
::Acquired Taste (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
... writers will know what they can get away with (after all, they are writing fiction, not history): Patrick O'Brian's 'Aubrey-Maturin' novels are meticulously researched but the timelines are deliberately blurred. The books span the period 1800-15 but cram in far more than could actually have happened: to quote Wikipedia the period June-November 1813 is stretched out to accommodate...
