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    Adams, Nehemiah: Under the Mizzen Mast
    Erscheinungsdatum: 04.05.2018, Medium: Taschenbuch, Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Titel: Under the Mizzen Mast, Titelzusatz: A Voyage Round the World, Autor: Adams, Nehemiah, Verlag: hansebooks, Sprache: Englisch, Schlagworte: Reisen und Urlaub // Reiseführer, Rubrik: Reiseführer // Kunstreiseführer, Seiten: 364, Informationen: Paperback, Gewicht: 555 gr, Verkäufer: averdo
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    Blue at the Mizzen: Aubrey-Maturin, Book 20, Hörbuch, Digital, 178min
    This is the 20th book in Patrick O'Brian's highly acclaimed, best-selling series chronicling the adventures of lucky Jack Aubrey and his best friend Stephen Maturin, part ship's doctor, part secret agent. Napoleon's hundred days of freedom and his renewed threat to Europe have ended at Waterloo and Aubrey has finally, as the title suggests, become a blue level admiral. He and Maturin have, at last, set sail on their much postponed mission to Chile. Vivid with the salty tang of life at sea, O'Brian's writing is as powerful as ever whether he writes of navel hierarchies, night-actions, or the most celebrated fictional friendship since that of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Blue at the Mizzen also brings alive the sights and sounds of revolutionary South America in a story as exciting as any O'Brian has written. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Hardy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000049/bk_hcuk_000049_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey-Maturin Book 20)
    Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey-Maturin Book 20) ab 8.89 € als epub eBook: . Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Spannung,
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    Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
    Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) ab 15.99 € als epub eBook: . Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik,
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    Blue at the Mizzen
    Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a peacetime navy. When the Surprise is nearly sunk on her way to South America-where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain-the delay occasioned by repairs reaps a harvest of strange consequences. The South American expedition is a desperate affair; and in the end Jack's bold initiative to strike at the vastly superior Spanish fleet precipitates a spectacular naval action that will determine both Chile's fate and his own.
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    Blue at the Mizzen: Aubrey/Maturin Series, Book 20, Hörbuch, Digital, 311min
    Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace takes on an ugly complexion for Jack Aubrey: drunken, violent celebrations of the English sailors in Gibraltar; the desertion of nearly half his crew; and the sudden dimming of his own career prospects in a peacetime navy. To cap it all off, the Surprise is nearly sunk in a shattering night collision on the first leg of her journey to South America, where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain. In the end, Jack's bold initiative to strike at the vastly superior Spanish fleet precipitates naval action that will determine both Chile's fate and his own. The twentieth and final installment of Patrick O'Brian's hugely successful Aubrey/Maturin series. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Pigott-Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000037/bk_rand_000037_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Blue at the Mizzen: Aubrey/Maturin Series, Book 20 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 617min
    Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a peacetime navy. When the Surprise is nearly sunk on her way to South America - where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain - the delay occasioned by repairs reaps a harvest of strange consequences. The South American expedition is a desperate affair; and in the end Jack's bold initiative to strike at the vastly superior Spanish fleet precipitates a spectacular naval action that will determine both Chile's fate and his own. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ric Jerrom. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021281/bk_adbl_021281_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Wreck of the Zanzibar , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 73min
    Laura Perryman's family has always lived on Bryher. She lives with her twin brother, Billy, and her mother and father and her Granny May. They have four milking cows, which is enough to keep the entire population of the island supplied with milk. Of course, almost every family keeps a fishing boat. Bryher is one of the Isles of Scilly. It's a very tiny island, and it is very hard work trying to scratch a living there. The sea feeds the people of Bryher. Billy, fourteen years old and bored with the unending milking routine, is feeling the strain. So, when the General Lee, bound for New York, calls at St. Mary's for repairs to the mizzen mast Billy secures his passage as a cabin boy. He has left the islands before his parents know anything about it. Laura has lost her twin brother. She is devastated. Her parents are also devastated. They have lost their only son. And ill fortune besets the family. They lose their cows. It's a very bad time. Everyone is hungry and families start to drift away from Bryher. Things seem hopeless for Laura's family until the Zanzibar is wrecked and washes up on the island.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Harry Man. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/001010/bk_hcuk_001010_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey, Hörbuch, Digital, 102min
    The story picks up from the end of Blue at the Mizzen, when Jack Aubrey receives the news, in Chile, of his elevation to flag rank: Rear Admiral of the Blue Squadron, with orders to sail to the South Africa station. This new novel, unfinished and untitled at the time of O’Brian’s death, would have been a chronicle of that mission, and much else besides. As the novel opens, we are able to visit these friends we have followed so very far in a rare state of almost perfect felicity. Jack has seen his illegitimate son ably discharging important duties. Sophie and his daughters are with him; Brigid is with her father, she's thriving, and Stephen is with a woman who is very dear to him. Jack, at last, is flying a rear-admiral's flag aboard a ship of the line. And so this great ‘roman fleuve’ comes to an end with Jack, with his ‘sacred blue flag’, sailing through fair, sweet days – Stephen with his dissections and new love, Killick muttering darkly over the toasted cheese…. Of course, we would rather have had the whole story; instead we have this proof that O’Brian’s powers of observation, his humour and his understanding of his characters were undiminished to the end. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Hardy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000562/bk_hcuk_000562_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Republic of Venice: The History of the Venetian Empire and Its Influence Across the Mediterranean , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 127min
    “As in the Arsenal of the Venetians Boils in winter the tenacious pitch To smear their unsound vessels over again For sail they cannot; and instead thereof One makes his vessel new, and one recaulks The ribs of that which many a voyage has made One hammers at the prow, one at the stern This one makes oars and that one cordage twists Another mends the mainsail and the mizzen…” (Dante’s Inferno)To the first settlers of the unpromising, marshy islands of Venice in the 5th century BCE, it appeared as if any attempt at civilization was doomed to fail. Yet, even with the cards stacked against them, the artful inhabitants mastered the unlivable terrain and slowly pieced together a society that would put the small, unassuming city right on the map. In time, the city evolved into the most powerful maritime empire in all of Europe.Founded in the wake of the decline of the Roman Empire, the Republic of Venice lasted for more than a thousand years, from 697-1797, and in order to understand its singular position in world history, it is necessary to first note its geographical positioning and its topographical make-up: Located in northeastern Italy at the head of the Adriatic, the city is made up of 120 islands that are connected by 430 bridges that cross over 170 canals, referred to as a “rio” or plural “rii” (Italian for river). As a maritime power, the interests of Venice once reached all the way to Asia, which allowed it to form an important crossroads within the Eastern Mediterranean, in terms of trade. In Venice, a vast array of products (raw materials, spices, cloth) came all the way from North Africa, Russia, and India and were exchanged for the goods and wealth of Europe.”Venice, of course, earned its remarkable reputation on its own merit, but the reason for its current fame should be credited at least in part to its status as one of the most important tourist destina ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/151267/bk_acx0_151267_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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