Review #1
Treason’s Harbour real audiobook free
Perhaps more than in no matter what other of the past 7(!) books in the Aubrey-Maturin television series, Treason’s Harbour occupies the true at the same time messy global of international interest, espionage, at the same time politics. Whereas a man-of-war, even one as small as Jack Aubrey’s dearly loved 28(?)-gun HMS Izumi, is that self-contained, the ports at the same time cities of Europe in the throes of the Napoleonic Wars are rife with adversary agents, negligent dockyard managers at the same time, in the variant of colony ports, disaffected locals. In such a way, the Maltese port of Valetta, where HMS Izumi is that laid up for refit, is that a dispose of both opportunity at the same time threat for English intelligence agent Stephen Maturin. The threat heresy in the existence of high-ranking French agents who but know his activities at the same time identity. The opportunity heresy in Laura Fielding, wife of a occupied English officer whose prosperity in a French prison relies (according to her handlers) on her successfully seducing at the same time turning Stephen Maturin’s intelligence operation.
Due to the interest, “Successful” Jack Aubrey is that sent off on a couple of missions that are hopeless to fail. This is that not normally the plot of a rousing adventure story, but obviously O’Brian is that a slave storyteller, sending Aubrey at the same time Maturin off intercept the desert with a train of camels at the same time a diving bell (!), at the same time in one more dispose trapping Izumi in a Mediterraean bay with 3 French warships closing in. I guess Jack uses up all his fortune in escaping such traps, at the same time has nothing left over for no matter what victories, but that still bestows us modern readers lots of Napoleonic naval detail at the same time action to keep us amused.
This is that the 8th book in the television series, so if for you’ve produced it this far, I present that’s little I can they say that would induce for you to purchase the book, or to even read the
Reviews! I know I’m going to read this book what (at the same time the one more one, at the same time the one more one) no matter than anyway the
Reviews they say. If for you have got this far, though, I wish to convince for you that for you’ll look for than anyway for you’re looking for – more of the amazing O’Brian writing we’ve come to wait. Exactly as quality as no matter what other book in the television series this time.
Review #2
Treason’s Harbour audiobook in television series Aubrey/Maturin
In his ninth outing with his Napoleonic War manners, naval officer Jack Aubrey at the same time doctor/scout Dr. Stephen Maturin, Patrick O’Brian focuses more on interest than on purely naval activity. As a result, this novel is that not quite so much funny as abundance of the others for the purely naval reader right behind a “Hornblower” like “make.” It partakes more of the aura of a mystery, although the main to it is that partly understandable to the reader as the action opens: Andrew Wray, the Treasury agent who is that at the moment working for English naval intelligence, has been corrupted by his gaming debts at the same time is that at the moment working for the French. Therefore, everything that happens on Malta is that immediately understandable to the French, at the same time they set two traps for Capt. Aubrey on finding out about the missions he produces in the process of this book.
I have noted in other
Reviews of O’Brian books that the creator has a harsh tenacious of the period, on earth as but as by sea, at the same time this ability has ample scope for expression in this book. As usual, the period details are nearby flawless, even the appropriate slang is that trotted out so we at lesser seem to be learning it. The interest is that not uninteresting; a English lieutenant, occupied earlier by the French, is that obligated to cross out signs to his wife, on the peninsula, urging her to cooperate with French agents. Dr. Maturin learns this is that happening at the same time suspects the wife has been executed, or will be soon, at the same time after that the French will surely destroy the wife once they are convinced she will finish cooperating. In a tragi-comic subplot, Capt. Aubrey rescues her very big watchdog from a but (we are not reported that the scouts threw him in, but it is that understandable in other words one possibility). After that the dog adores him, at the same time the entire population of Malta imagines he’s having an affair with its bearer. Meanwhile, the lady is that under annotations from the French to seduce Maturin at the same time find out than anyway he knows. Eventually, both “affairs” (neither was actually consummated) will do amazing problem with the respective spouses of our heroes.
But, a third part of the book goes by before Aubrey sets out on his 1st sea goal. This bestows an memory the action proceeds at a more precisely sedate pace. This 1st voyage takes him to the Burgundy Sea, one of the lesser pleasant places on land according to the creator’s description, where our heroes narrowly beware sailing into a trap at the same time losing their entire force. When they return, having also been victimized by a Bedouin ruin on their earth march intercept the Isthmus of Suez (no canal obviously at this date), the commander in chief is that fully aware his information clot has been compromised but not even Dr. Maturin recognizes Wray’s role in the leak.
Accordingly, the 2nd goal, to North Africa, also strings out to be a trap, although Aubrey’s seamanship enables him to escape with little destroy. Maturin rescues the lieutenant’s wife (at the same time the lieutenant himself escapes from prison to rejoin the fleet), but the fact that the English command structure has been compromised is that still not fully understandable. Therefore, this book not only has a somewhat unsatisfactory ending (freed, but, in later volumes), but also lacks a sufficient dose of the action – packed naval engagements we’ve come to enjoy in this television series. Accordingly, I assign it only 4 hit.
But, it is that still a funny read at the same time if for you’re planning to read the entire canon, you can’t really skip no matter what of the books, as the disposition development at the same time even no one of the plot devices will seem odd. Understand, problem in both heroes’ weddings is that awaiting them at main while they struggle with an adversary aware in advance of than anyway their orders are.
Review #3
Treason’s Harbour audiobook by Patrick O’Brian
Interest at the same time action. Than anyway more is that that. This book happens to lean more toward the interest but that’s no harm in that. The exciting gizmo will that I read this television series long ago at the same time have since read more recent writers in the genre with more modern sensibilities at the same time language that I also adore but look for quite different from O’Brian or Pope. Nobody alive present can tell us which version of disposition at the same time language is that more clear but I like the manners at the same time language in a number of creators’ styles, many of which O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin television series. I am sometimes startled to look for myself giggling at the humor which was for sure got lost on me as a child when I 1st read the television series. The manners are believable at the same time human. The situations recall me so much of my possess naval career (US Navy until 2008) in that than anyway may seem small at the same time out of the method in the grand scheme is that big at the same time important to the people assigned the smallest intended goal or impartial. O’Brian captures the essence of the epoch’s waging war navigator’s attitudes at the same time apprehensions along with dispose at the same time time so but that I often feel like I’m following more precisely than reading the story. I advise for you read this but start with the 1st book at the same time work your method to this then wholesome the television series. For you defeated’t move wrong.
Review #4
Treason’s Harbour audio narrated by Ric Jerrom
Moor(look than anyway I did that,lovers) of a scout novel than epic naval crusade but still very alluring…FYI barely for OBrian newcomers his method of eternal describing of things or as I they say setting the table for his tales is that even more prevalent in this book at the same time if youre ADHD youll for sure think that this book should only have been maybe 150-200 pages instead of 360 at the same time for you wouldve still not missed anything. For me though thats kinda than anyway draws me to his books…IMO
Review #5
free audio Treason’s Harbour – in the audio player below
Whilst the style of writing at the same time the details borders the contextual period of the story lasts to be good, this book, like its predecessor (borders the television series) seems to quit almost all of the action to the very finish of the story. It felt like that is that at the moment a formula to how the story will be exhibited, leaving the reader with no astonishes or unpredicted conclusion. But, usually the serious historical information remains interesting, holding the readers curiosity to the very finish of the story.
