Beasts royal : twelve tales of adventure / Patrick O'Brian.
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SoundPublisher: London : Harper, 2015Copyright date: ©1934Copyright date: ℗2015Description: 2 CDs (approximately 2 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 12 cmContent type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audiodiscISBN: 9780008154660Subject(s): Animals -- FictionGenre/Form: Action and adventure fiction. | Short stories. | Audiobooks. DDC classification: 823.914 Read by Robert Hardy.Summary: 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 be published 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.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- audio | Northam Northam General Stacks | F OBR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111063152365 |
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 be published 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.
Read by Robert Hardy.
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