In Search of Patrick O'Brian

by Dean King (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.20

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.20

  Patrick O'Brian, the late author of the immensely popular Aubrey-Maturin novels, zealously guarded the details of his past. Now Dean King - an expert on nautical literature and on O'Brian's novels - unveils the story of Richard Patrick Russ, a writer and intellectual who emerged from the Second World War as Patrick O'Brian, a persona created in his own imagination and later refined by decades of rumour and speculation. Drawing on interviews with relatives (including O'Brian's brother and son), friends and colleagues of his famously reclusive subject, King has fashioned a wealth of information into a dramatic and illuminating account of O'Brian's life and work.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.20

  A biography of the reclusive Patrick O'Brian, author of the Aubrey-Maturin novels. Drawing on interviews with friends and colleagues, the text documents O'Brian's life and work, and reveals how he created his own persona, which was enhanced by decades of rumour and speculation.