You might also like

More about Hundred Days

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 28 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the nineteenth book in the series. Following the extraordinary success of The Yellow Admiral, this latest Aubrey-Maturin novel brings alive the sights and sounds of North Africa as well as the great naval battles in the days immediately following Napoleon's escape from Elba. Aubrey and Maturin are in the thick of the plots and counterplots to prevent his regaining power. Coloured by conspiracies in the Adriatic, in the Berber and Arab lands of the southern shores of the Mediterranean, by night actions, fierce pursuits, slave-trading and lion hunts, The Hundred Days is a masterpiece. 'O'Brian is far and away the best of the Napoleonic storytellers and The Hundred Days is one of the best of the series: a classic naval adventure, crammed with incident, superbly plotted and utterly gripping...This is O'Brian at his brilliant, entertaining best and when he is on this form the rest of us who write of the Napoleonic conflict might as well give up and try a new career. Fans of the series will need no encouragement to buy this book, but if you are new to Aubrey and Maturin then this is as splendid an introduction as you could wish for.' Bernard Cornwell

Book details

Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Adventure Historical adventure

• Full title: Hundred Days
• Author: Patrick O'Brian
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780006512110
• ISBN: 0006512119
• ID: 04000982
• Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
• Weight: 240 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 129 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. September 1999

Trending among others

---

---

---