BOOKS ON TAPE - www.booksontape.com Items in Cart: 0
Items in QuickOrder: 0
Order Now/View Cart ConsumersLibrariesSchools
Home Email This Page | Help Desk
Search New TitlesAudio DownloadsWe RecommendMy AccountWishList
A division of Random House, Inc.
Quick Search:   
NEED HELP?

The Far Side of the World   * Available on Tape.

By Patrick O'Brian1984)
Read by Richard Brown (Brit.)
(P) 1993 Books on Tape, Inc.
Unabridged
Fiction > Fiction
10th in the Aubrey/Maturin series

Jack Aubrey seeks out an American frigate sent to wreck Britain's whaling trade. Tenth in series.

Customer Ratings
Book Rating:
5/5 stars
(Rated by 3 people)

Reader Rating:
5/5 stars
100% of listeners
liked this reader
(Rated by 3 people)

Read All Reviews
VOICE YOUR OPINION

LISTEN (MP3)
EMBED THIS CLIP

Show ISBNs          
Unabridged Editions: Format: Ships Within: Price: Ordering Options:
Purchase (Collector's) 10 Tapes 2-3 days $80.00 $20.00 QuickOrder(TM)Add to WishListAdd to Cart

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:     Why can't I rent?

Title Description
The War of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets sail for Cape Horn with orders that speak to his heart: intercept and destroy a powerful American frigate sent out to wreck Britain's whaling trade. And Stephen Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence.

But disaster waits in the Great Southern Sea. Calamities abound, natural and manmade: typhoons, castaways, shipwreck, murder, criminal insanity.

"Like Aubrey and Maturin playing Mozart duets beneath the Pacific moon, O'Brian works elegant variations on the tradition of the seafaring adventure story." (The New York Times)



Recommendations
Customers who ordered this book also ordered:

1. Op-Center #11: Call to Treason by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik; read by Michael Kramer. (CD or Tape)
2. Shoot the Moon by Billie Letts; read by Kathe Mazur. (CD or Tape)
3. Villages by John Updike; read by Edward Herrmann. (CD or Tape)



Customer Reviews
Have you listened to this audiobook? Please submit your ratings and review it!

Book rating: 5/5 stars   Reader rating: 5/5 stars
Reviewer: Mark Garrett (see other books I've reviewed)
July 11, 2002
How O'Brian keeps coming up with inventive twists is beyond me. There is one occurence in this novel that left me gasping in disbelief and wiggling in delight, and it leads to one of the most extraordinary sequences in all the series.



Home | Search | New Titles | Audio Downloads | We Recommend | My Account | WishList | RSS Feeds | Order Now | Help Desk


See an error or omission on this page? Contact us.


BOOKS ON TAPE®, B-O-T® and BOOKS ON CD® are registered trademarks and service marks of Books on Tape, A Division of Random House, Inc.
"Audiobooks" is the generic term for recordings of best-sellers on cassette.
contact us | privacy policy | more trademark information