Beasts royal
Subtitle: twelve tales of adventure
By: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9780008112943
Copyright date: 1934
Subjects: Animals; Fiction
Description: Published when Patrick O'Brian was just nineteen, this is the enchanting, often bloodthirsty collection of twelve tales of animal adventure that would appear in 1934 as the author's second book. His first, Caesar, had been published in 1930 and was an instant success, seeing O'Brian hailed as the 'boy-Thoreau'. As with Caesar, Beasts Royal sheds fascinating light on the formation of the literary genius behind the Aubrey-Maturin series of historical adventure tales.
Table of contents: title: Shark no. 206; title: A peregrine falcon; title: Skogula; title: Python; title: The condor of Quetzalcoatl; title: Old cronk; title: Gorilla; title: Wang Kahn; title: Rhino; title: The white cobra; title: Jehangir Bahadur; title: Jellaludin.