Lobscouse and Spotted Dog

Author: Chotzinoff Anne Grossman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393320947
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
In this cookbook companion to Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin novels, readers get authentic and practical recipes for dishes that complement the pair's travels--such as Burgoo, Drowned Baby, Sea-Pie, Jam Roly-Poly, and Sucking pig.

Men-of-War: Life in Nelson’s Navy

Author: Patrick O’Brian
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0008356009
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
Out of print for many years, this is a brand new edition of the definitive companion to the acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series of novels, written by the author himself.

Treason's Harbour

Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393037098
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
"The finest writer of sea-stories in the English language."--J. de Courcy Ireland

Thank You Humans

Author: Ionie Bonnie
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781673269888
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70

Book Description
This is about a dog, who has lived to a ripe old age because of the love and care of its human parents and friends. Her name is Asta and she is saying thank you to all humans who have sheltered and cared for animals in general. She is also worried about all other animals who are not so fortunate as her to get the best care and who are homeless. Asta has some great stories to tell and would like to share them with all humanity. If she were to be revived again and come back as a dog, she would certainly want to be a dog again, thanks to humanity!

Unmentionable Cuisine

Author: Calvin W. Schwabe
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813911625
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 492

Book Description
Includes recipes for cooking horse meat, goats, dogs, cats, rats, rabbits, hares, squirrels, turtles, snakes, eels, sharks, frogs, and insects, among other unusual food sources.

The First Writing Book

Author: Ludovico degli Arrighi
Publisher: New York City : Chiswick Book Shop ; New Haven : Yale University Press
ISBN:
Category : Alphabets
Languages : en
Pages : 102

Book Description

Patrick O'Brian's Navy

Author: Richard O'Neill
Publisher: Running PressBook Pub
ISBN: 0762415401
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
From the moment that "Master and Commander, " the first of O'Brian's 20 novels about the 19th century British Royal Navy was published, critics hailed his work as a masterpiece. This first full-color illustrated companion to the series is timed to benefit from the release of the Twentieth-Century Fox film adaptation starring Russell Crowe.

Singularity Sky

Author: Charles Stross
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780441011797
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
In a technologically suppressed future, information demands to be free in the debut novel from Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross. In the twenty-first century, life as we know it changed. Faster-than-light travel was perfected, and the Eschaton, a superhuman artificial intelligence, was born. Four hundred years later, the far-flung colonies that arose as a result of these events—scattered over three thousand years of time and a thousand parsecs of space—are beginning to rediscover their origins. The New Republic is one such colony. It has existed for centuries in self-imposed isolation, rejecting all but the most basic technology. Now, under attack by a devastating information plague, the colony must reach out to Earth for help. A battle fleet is dispatched, streaking across the stars to the rescue. But things are not what they seem—secret agendas and ulterior motives abound, both aboard the ship and on the ground. And watching over it all is the Eschaton, which has its own very definite ideas about the outcome...

Sir Nigel

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher:
ISBN: 3963767154
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
Sir Nigel is a historical novel set during the Hundred Years' War, by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1906, it is a fore-runner to Doyle's earlier novel The White Company, and describes the early life of that book's hero Sir Nigel Loring in the service of King Edward III at the start of the Hundred Years' War.

Harbors and High Seas

Author: Dean King
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 145323831X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 349

Book Description
This companion for fans of the Napoleonic sea sagas offers maps of the novels’ streets, seas, and coasts, and much more. The tall-masted sailing ships of the early nineteenth century were the technological miracles of their day, allowing their crews to traverse the seas with greater speed than had ever been possible before. Novelist Patrick O’Brian captured the thrill of that era with his characters Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, who visited exotic locales in the service of the Royal Navy. From frigid Dieppe to balmy Batavia, they strolled the ports of the world as casually as most do the streets of their hometown. Packed with maps and illustrations from the greatest age of sail, this volume shows not just where Aubrey and Maturin went, but how they got there. An incomparable reference for devotees of O’Brian’s novels and anyone who has dreamed of climbing aboard a warship, Harbors and High Seas is a captivating portrait of life on the sea, when nothing stood between man and ocean but grit, daring, and a few creaking planks of wood.