any library serving Patrick OBrian fans will want this titleBooklist; excellentARBA; I thought Anthony Gary Browns companion to the Aubrey-Maturin novels as indispensable as a mainmast or a compass for any reader who would put to sea in their companyLewis Lapham, Harpers Magazine; what an astonishing piece of work it is! And a valuable one, too. I am very glad to have [ this] book to draw on, and I know that other OBrian enthusiasts will be as wellRichard F. Snow, American Heritage Magazine; offers some interesting answers...insightful introduction...an ambitious listing, with accompanying notes, of all the characters and ships...brings to the task an erudition that is a worthy match for OBrians...one of those reference works that is genuinely difficult to put down, with one entry cross-referencing to another in an enthralling intellectual trail...whether used as a companion to the novels or as a work of reference in its own right, this book is a most useful and enjoyable tool...clear, sharp typeface...includes a useful annotated bibliography and a guide to the complex chronology of the novelsColin White, The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society; for all aficionados...outstanding...increases the joy of reading OBrian...strongly recommendedCatholic Library World; Brown has stepped up to lend others a handinvaluable as much for its reference use as its wit, Browns book deserves a place on the shelf with OBrians corpus....before setting sail, its important to chart your course, and Dr. Brown has made that task immensely simpler and more pleasurable Rob Lightner, Amazon.com Editorial Review; useful for casual readers and for ardent fans, this dictionary is an in-depth guide to many factual and fictional aspects of the Aubrey-Maturin seriesARBA; a dictionary to explain the enormous number of references, both factual and fictional, found Reference Reviews; describes every object and person one comes across in the books...exhaustive...impressiveThe Herald (Rock Hill, South Carolina); splendid...will enjoy it very much The Rt. Hon. Lord William Waldegrave of North Hill.
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