false 325706 20 In this installment of O'Brian's maritime epic, Captain Aubrey and the crew of the <i>Surprise</i> are pursuing an American privateer through the Great South Sea. As is his custom, O'Brian grabs your attention with the first, beautifully memorable sentence: "A purple ocean, vast under the sky and devoid of all visible life apart from two minute ships racing across its immensity." And he doesn't relinquish it until 260 pages later, by which point Jack Aubrey is delighted at the mere fact of being alive. 388063 17 11 1993 The Wine-Dark Sea (Aubrey/Maturin Book 16) total:749|5:360|4:277|3:104|2:7|1:1| 749 3235 962 19 4 1 false false Fri Jan 30 12:22:50 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 12:31:02 -0800 2009 5 1 false false Thu Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 08:39:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 08:33:15 -0700 2008
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That Patrick O'Brian chose to place his characters on the sea in the not so distant past just raised the hurdle I had to leap to get to know this wonderful author.

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Spoilers and possibly slash ahoy.

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