The wine-dark sea
By: Patrick O'Brian.
Series: Aubrey/Maturin series -- no. 16
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780393312447
Subjects: Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; Maturin, Stephen (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction.; Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: At the outset of this adventure, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a heavy American privateer through the Great South Sea. Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen's mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America. Jack will survive a desperate open-boat journey and come face to face with his illegitimate black son; Stephen, caught up in the aftermath of his failed coup, will flee for his life into the high, frozen wastes of the Andes; and Patrick O'Brian's brilliantly detailed narrative will reunite them at last in a breathtaking chase through storm seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn.