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Beasts Royal - Twelve Tales of Adventure (Paperback)
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Beasts Royal - Twelve Tales of Adventure (Paperback)
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List price R269
Loot Price R198
Discovery Miles 1 980
You Save R71 (26%)
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Beasts Royal is the second book written by Patrick O'Brian - made
available, at last, for the first time since the 1930s and
elegantly repackaged. On the indigo waters of the South Sea, the
crew of a schooner are attacked by a man-eating tiger-shark. In the
humid depths of the African jungle, a thirty-foot python plots to
rid himself of his rival, a wily old crocodile. Amid the heat and
dust of the Punjab, the snake-charmer Hussein escapes into the
forest on the elephant that he trained when a mahout in his youth.
With the dry wit and unsentimental precision O'Brian would come to
be loved for, we see the drama and tragedies of the natural world
unfold for these, as well as other birds and beasts, in these
twelve tales of animal adventure that would appear together in 1934
as the author's second book. O'Brian's debut, Caesar, had been
published in 1930 and became an instant success, seeing him hailed
as the 'boy-Thoreau'. His second novel, Hussein, would expand upon
one of the stories included in this collection and has been praised
by Martin Booth of The Daily Telegraph as being '...as fresh today
as when it was written....so rich in detail, it is breathtaking.'
As with Caesar and Hussein, Beasts Royal sheds fascinating light on
the formation of the literary genius behind the Aubrey-Maturin
series of historical adventure tales, for which he is deservedly
famous.
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