Beasts Royal: Twelve Tales of Adventure
English
By (author): Patrick OBrian
Beasts Royal is the second book written by Patrick OBrian made available, at last, for the first time since the 1930s and beautifully repackaged.
Published when Patrick OBrian was just nineteen, this is the enchanting, often bloodthirsty collection of twelve tales of animal adventure that would be published in 1934 as the authors second book. His first, Caesar, had been published in 1930 and was an instant success, seeing OBrian 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 OBrian would come to be loved for, we see the tragedies of
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