description: At the outset of an adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are pursuing a prize through the Great South Sea, where the strange color of the ocean waters (reminding them of Homer's famous description) is a portent of violence. Patrick O'Brian's brilliantly detailed narrative reunites them in a breathtaking chase through stormy seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted. "The pleasures of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels defy enumeration... These are books that offer the reader both sensual and intellectual enjoyment, the pleasures of immensely stylish writing as well as the pleasures of engagement with an author who is moralist, naturalist, and naval historian into the bargain."— Washington Post.
language: English
title: The Wine-Dark Sea
titlecomplete: The Wine-Dark Sea (Aubrey/Maturin, #16)
characters: Stephen Maturin, Jack Aubrey
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Maritime, Audiobook, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 8508
series: Aubrey & Maturin
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd