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Title: Harbors and High Seas, 3rd Edition : An Atlas and Georgraphical Guide to the Complete Aubrey-Maturin Novels of Patrick O'Brian, Third Edition by Dean King, John B. Hattendorf ISBN: 0-8050-6614-4 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.87 (15 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: I am very disappointed with Dean King's efforts here. Where is this great prodigy of maps that the book seems to promise? Much of the book is taken up with summaries of PO'B's novels. If I want to know what happened in the books I will read them, I don't need to pay 21 American dollars for that. And most of the content that is not summary is written descriptions entitled 'Here and There'. Can Mr. King possibly think his accounts will succeed in enabling we hopeless lubbers to comprehend intricate harbors and locations where the great O'Brian's have not? In the Post Captain chapter, do we find a map of Chaulieu where Aubrey fights the Polychrest until she sinks under him? No we do not. This book should be filled cover to cover with detailed charts and maps. It falls far and sadly short of expectations. I urge anyone not having been duped into purchasing it already to refrain from doing so.
Rating: 4
Summary: An excellent companion to the Aubrey-Martin books
Comment: If you enjoy the Aubrey-Maturin books as I did (and I read almost nothing else for several months), you will find this book an excellent reference aid. At times I found the geography in the books difficult to follow. The maps in Dean King's companion set forth with excellent clarity where Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin have been and when they were there. Although I found Dean King's lexicon (his other book) more helpful, I would nonetheless recommend this one.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not Bad but Not Great
Comment: Harbors is a good effort to try and geographically place events in the Aubrey/Maturin series. For the number of pages, however, I would have wanted more maps and less exposition by Mr King. And while he does not give away plot points in his book summaries, the maps themselves necessarily identify major battles or meetings; beware of spoilers!
The maps themselves are rather basic, but in their favor Mr King does place as well as possible fictitious places as well as actual.
If you find a good deal, then by all means add it to your collection. It's not a bad book, and until a better version is published (which is doubtful) it does an adaquate job.
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Title: A Sea of Words, Third Edition: A Lexicon and Companion to the Complete Seafaring Tales of Patrick O'Brian by Dean King, John B. Hattendorf, J. Worth Estes ISBN: 0805066152 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Patrick O'Brian's Navy: The Illustrated Companion to Jack Aubrey's World by Richard O'Neill, Chris Chant, David Miller, Clive, Dr., Phd Wilkinson ISBN: 0762415401 Publisher: Running Press Pub. Date: March, 2004 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian ISBN: 0393307611 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian ISBN: 0393307069 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian ISBN: 039330762X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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