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Beasts Royal: Twelve Tales of Adventure
Patrick O’brian
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Description for Beasts Royal: Twelve Tales of Adventure
CD-Audio. Beasts Royal is the second book written by Patrick O'Brian - made available, at last, for the first time since the 1930s and beautifully repackaged. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 112.
Beasts Royal is the second book written by Patrick O'Brian - made available, at last, for the first time since the 1930s and beautifully repackaged. Published when Patrick O'Brian was just nineteen, this is the enchanting, often bloodthirsty collection of twelve tales of animal adventure that would be published 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 ... Read more
Beasts Royal is the second book written by Patrick O'Brian - made available, at last, for the first time since the 1930s and beautifully repackaged. Published when Patrick O'Brian was just nineteen, this is the enchanting, often bloodthirsty collection of twelve tales of animal adventure that would be published 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
CD
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780008154660
SKU
V9780008154660
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-22
About Patrick O’brian
Patrick O'Brian, until his death in 2000, was one of our greatest contemporary novelists. He is the author of the acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin tales and the biographer of Joseph Banks and Picasso. He is the author of many other books including Testimonies, and his Collected Short Stories. In 1995 he was the first recipient of the Heywood Hill Prize for a ... Read more
Reviews for Beasts Royal: Twelve Tales of Adventure
`Both books are full of the fantasy that has made O'Brian's seafaring yarns such a success. Like them, they are full of engaging adventures, curious lore, fond descriptions of food and scenes of battle... Caesar makes delightful, often hilarious reading... Hussein is more sophisticated. Here fully thirty years before Master and Commander was published is the unmistakable texture of O'Brian's ... Read more