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. With the dry wit and
unsentimental precision O'Brian would come to be loved for, we see
the tragedies of ...
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