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The Uncertain Land and Other Poems
by Patrick O'Brian
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New. <p> <strong>The first ever collection of poems by the acclaimed author of the Aubrey/Maturin series of Napoleonic naval adventures.</strong> </p> <p>As we have stood with Jack and Stephen on the deck of the Surprise and other ships, readers around the world have been transported to a place and time at once familiar and exotic, routine and dramatic.</p> <p>At all times, Patrick OâBrianâs deep knowledge of the period and profound empathy with the landscape of the sea has ensured there is always a firm hand on the tiller. The writerâs command of language is combined with the poetâs eye for visual detail to remarkable, and unforgettable effect.</p> <p>In <em>The Uncertain Land and Other Poems</em>, those same strengths are vividly displayed as OâBrian leads us on a journey through his own life. Here, we see a writer full of a young manâs spirit, challenging life, and here an author reflecting an old manâs melancholy at youth gone; in between, as he describes the places that he lived and people that he encountered, are poems of sly observation, wry humour and delicate beauty.</p> <p>Through more than 100 poems, OâBrian reveals insights into the world that captivated him while he was at work on a succession of novels that would reach its apotheosis in the Aubrey/Maturin adventures, which would secure his reputation as âthe Homer of the Napoleonic Warsâ. Intensely personal, allusive and unique, this is the work of a lifetime, published now for the very first time.</p>
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- The Uncertain Land and Other Poems
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- Patrick O'Brian
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- 0008609756
- ISBN 13
- 9780008609757
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