The Wine-Dark Sea [Hardcover]

At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean reminds Stephen of Homer's famous description, and portends an underwater volcanic eruption that will create a new island overnight and leave an indelible impression on the reader's imagination.I havent read novels [in the past ten years] except for all of the Patrick OBrian series. It was, unfortunately, like tripping on heroin. I started on those books and couldnt stop.Addictively readable.They're funny, they're exciting, they're informative. . . there are legions of us who gladly ship out time and time again under Captain Aubrey.lf Jane Austen had written rousing sea yarns, she would have produced something very close to the prose of Patrick O'Brian.The sixteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series, and Patrick O'Brian's first bestseller in the United States.