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Never previously published in this country, A Book of Voyages presents writings by various travelers, annotated and introduced by Patrick O'Brian. Most are taken from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; O'Brian felt that, unlike Elizabethan or Victorian accounts, these writings were relatively unknown in our time.
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If you’re familiar with O’Brian’s masterful Jack Aubrey series of British nautical adventures, you’ll have a sense of where his inspiration came from in A Book of Voyages.
The volume comprises first-person accounts of exotic seventeenth-century journeys, whether overland to destinations throughout Europe and Asia or on perilous sea voyages to northern climes and the New World.
O’Brian has selected a handful of accounts that provide deep, unromanticized insight into life in those distant times, from extremes of unbelievable luxury to the horrors of starvation at sea. Minimally edited, we read the accounts exactly as their authors wrote them,…
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