{"id":3299,"date":"2018-07-28T15:48:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T22:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-mountain.com\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2018-07-28T15:52:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T22:52:58","slug":"in-re-patrick-obrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/?p=3299","title":{"rendered":"In Re Patrick O’Brian"},"content":{"rendered":"
From a friend, Bob McCampbell:<\/h5>\n
I am in your debt for introducing me to Patrick O\u2019Brian! Just finished 21, his final unfinished work of the Aubrey\/Maturin episodes. I\u2019m left a little unhappy that it all comes to an end…the same feeling I had upon learning of Sue Grafton\u2019s passing before finishing her series.<\/h5>\n
I\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019ll re-read the series at some point, if only to keep a dictionary to hand for some of the very obscure words and phrases that I glossed over in my haste to keep reading. \u00a0God, it was captivating!<\/h5>\n
I turn now to Robert Parker for a little contemporary escapism!<\/h5>\n
Cheers,<\/h5>\n
Bob<\/h5>\n
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My response:<\/h5>\n
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I had the dictionary, the atlas and the cookbook. Good news:<\/a> O’Brian wrote two novels in the 50s based on an admiral by name of Anson. They are \u201cThe Golden Ocean\u201d (1956) and \u201cThe Unknown Shore\u201d (1959). I forgot I had them, and I don\u2019t think I have read them. I found copies of them for you on Abe Books, rather cheap. The shipping was free so it will take a while for them to get to you.<\/h5>\n
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O\u2019Brian was born Richard Patrick Russ. After WWII, he reinvented himself, abandoning a family in England and moving to Western France on the Catalonia border. There is a badly written bookabout this, \u201cPatrick O\u2019Brian: A Life Revealed\u201d by one Dean King.<\/h5>\n
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O\u2019Brian wrote the foreword to \u201cLobscouse & Spotted Dog,\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u201cWhich It\u2019s a Gastonomic Companion to the Aubrey\/Maturin Novels.\u201d The recipes include Killick\u2019s toasted cheese as well as boiled shit. It was written by Anne Chotzinofff Grossman and Lisa Grossman Thomas. It is unique among cookbooks, and the writers note they would not have taken on such a project had they known the amount of work required. It shows.<\/h5>\n
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I knew nothing of the Napoleonic Wars before I started the series. And I did not know anthing about Trafalgar. When we were in England in the early 2000s, I took the train by my self to Portsmouth to tour HMS Victory. It happened to be October 21, the anniversary of Lord Nelson\u2019s death at Trafalgar. There was a wreath on the orlop where he died.<\/h5>\n
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From a friend, Bob McCampbell: I am in your debt for introducing me to Patrick O\u2019Brian! Just finished 21, his final unfinished work of the Aubrey\/Maturin episodes. I\u2019m left a little unhappy that it all comes to an end…the same feeling I had upon learning of Sue Grafton\u2019s passing before finishing her series. I\u2019m pretty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3306,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions\/3306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}