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The Unknown ShorePatrick O'Brian

The Unknown Shore

Patrick O'Brian
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Patrick O'Brian's first novel about the sea, The Golden Ocean, took inspiration from Commodore Anson's fateful circumnavigation of the globe in 1740. In The Unknown Shore, O'Brian returns to this rich source and mines it brilliantly for another, quite different tale of exploration and adventure. The Wager was parted from Anson's squadron in the fierce storms off Cape Horn and struggled alone up the coast of Chile until it was driven against the rocks and sank. The survivors were soon involved in trouble of every kind. A surplus of rum, a disappearing stock of food, and a hard, detested…

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13 editions
  • Audiobook · English · 2001
    Unknown Shore
    Highbridge Audio · 330 pages · 9781565115835
  • Audiobook · English · 1996
    Books on Tape, Inc. · 9780736633017
  • Audiobook · English · 1959
    Books On Tape · 9785557119719
  • Other · English · 2012
    Unknown Shore
    HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 272 pages · 9780007466450
  • Other · English · 1998
    HarperCollins · 9780006497950
  • Other · English · 1997
    Unknown Shore
    HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 288 pages · 9780002254090
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