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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Beasts Royal: Twelve Tales of Adventure
Author: O’BRIAN PATRICK
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/10/2015
Imprint: HARPER COLLINS
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active
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 appear 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 formation of the literary genius behind the Aubrey-Maturin series of historical adventure tales. With the dry wit and unsentimental precision O’Brian would come to be loved for, we see the tragedies of …
ISBN: 9780008112943
Dimension: 216mm X 135mm