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An immediate precursor to Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series, displaying all the splendid prose and attention to detail that O'Brian's readers expect.
Patrick O'Brian's first novel about the sea, The Golden Ocean, took inspiration from Commodore George Anson's fateful circumnavigation of the globe in 1740. In The Unknown Shore, O'Brian returns to this rich source and mines it brilliantly for another, quite different tale of exploration and adventure.The Wager was parted from Anson's squadron in the fierce storms off Cape Horn and struggled alone up the coast of Chile until she was driven against the rocks and sank. The survivors were soon involved in trouble of every kind. A surplus of rum, a disappearing stock of food, and a hard, detested captain soon drove them into drunkenness, mutiny, and bloodshed. After many months of privation, a handful of men made their way northward under the guidance of a band of Indians, at last finding safety in Valparaiso.
This saga of survival is the background to the adventures of two young men aboard the Wager: midshipman Jack Byron and his friend Tobias Barrow, an alarmingly naive surgeon's mate. Patrick O'Brian's many devoted readers will take particular interest in this story, as Jack and Toby form a kind of blueprint for Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, the famed heroes of the great Aubrey/Maturin series to come.
- Sales Rank: #604464 in Books
- Published on: 1996-10-17
- Format: Large Print
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.30" h x .80" w x 5.60" l, .63 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
Amazon.com Review
The Unknown Shore, a sort-of sequel to The Golden Ocean, is a fascinating blue-print for the Aubrey-Maturin series. We follow Jack Byron and Tobias Barrow, two unlikely neighbors and fast friends in whom we catch glimpses of the heroes of the epic series to come. They set off to sea in 1740 as part of Commodore Anson's fleet to circumnavigate the globe. Byron, a romantic, forceful lad, signs on as a midshipman; Barrow, a strangely educated, scientifically brilliant boy, is running away from his father and wins a commission as a surgeon's mate. Set up in the Wager, which is parted from Anson's squadron and sinks somewhere along the desolate coast of Chile, Byron and Barrow are left to struggle for survival by wits alone, facing mutiny, famine, indifferent natives and lingering infighting. A fully realized hint of the fictional magic to come.
From Publishers Weekly
O'Brian's loyal following for the Aubrey/Maturin historical nautical adventure novels (The Wine-Dark Sea, etc.) has swelled from a cult to a legion of readers; thus there are many who will welcome this predecessor to that well-received series. Originally published in England in 1959 and based on British Commodore Anson's 1740 circumnavigation of the world (as was O'Brian's The Golden Ocean), this is the story of HMS Wager, a ship separated from Anson's squadron while sailing around Cape Horn. The Wager is shipwrecked off Patagonia, and the largest part of the narrative details the hardships of the diminishing band of survivors on that inhospitable shore. Daily shipboard routine, smoky 1740 London and the Indian community in Chile are all finely detailed. What will set devotees of O'Brian's better-known books positively aquiver, though, are the two chief characters: Jack Byron, an enthusiastic midshipman with "gaudy" family connections, and his best boyhood friend, Tobias Barrow, an unworldly budding doctor and naturalist. Their later counterparts are, of course, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, and O'Brian loyalists will have a field day comparing the four characters. Though this novel isn't quite as polished or stylish as the author's later work, it's a most honorable ancestor. Maps not seen by PW.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
O'Brian's 1959 novel predates his popular Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin stories, but they, however, are quite similar to this title's protagonists, Jack Byron and Tobias Barrow. The plot finds them and a handful of crewmen struggling to stay alive and make their way back to civilization after the sinking of their ship.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Rounding the Horn
By A. Steven Toby
This book was written by a younger Mr. O'Brian than the man who wrote the Aubrey/Maturin novels. However, he was already middle aged, past 40, when he wrote it, and it does not seem amateurish in any way. While there is no author's note saying he relied completely on official reports of the period, it seems probable that he did, as with the later series of 20 novels about the Napoleonic Wars.
This time his characters are midshipman Jack Byron and surgeon's mate Toby Barrow; while they are both English -- the Irish connection is visible in his first novel, The Golden Ocean -- they resemble Aubrey and Maturin to a surprising extent, and may have served him as dress rehearsals for the more famous characters.
This book and The Golden Ocean tell the story of the expedition to the Pacific under Commodore Anson in 1740, an operation that was ultimately successful in capturing the Manila Galleon and a cargo so valuable that it made the survivors wealthy for the rest of their lives. The complete story of this expedition is told rather better in another novel, Manila Galleon, published in 1961. (http://www.amazon.com/Manila-Galleon-Van-Wyck-Mason/dp/B0000CL667/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1421022897&sr=1-9&keywords=f.+van+wyck+mason).
However, this tale, the wreck of HMS Wager and the sufferings of the survivors in the waters near Cape Horn, is told with evident authenticity and is a good sea story. (Whether the author has completely mastered the differences between 18th and 19th century naval tactics is the only thin I questioned; the later novel explains that in 1740, British naval officers didn't yet have uniforms, and the handling of the Lateen mizzen doesn't receive any attention. The fact that Midshipman Byron, an actual historical person, was related to the later Lord Byron wasn't made clear either).
The Aubrey-Maturin novels are definitely better, but The Unknown Shore is a good read for those who have already read the others.
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Great Sea Story; Great History
By James Barton Phelps
`In 1740 Commodore George Anson, RN sailed with a force of five ships - Centurion (60), Gloucester (50). Severn (?), Wager (28) and the sloop Tryal - together with two supply ships and several thousand troops to harass the Spanish settlements on the West Coast of South America. The expedition was late in leaving, inadequately supplied and badly planned. The supply ships turned back (one was lost); the expedition hit Cape Horn at the beginning of winter and only three made it round the Horn - Centurion, Gloucester and Wager. By this time most of the troops were dead from exposure, scurvy and cruise related injuries. Wager was wrecked on the west coast of Patagonia 400 miles north of Cape Horn during a terrible storm. Having no means to determine longitude Centurion and Gloucester missed their rendezvous at the island of Juan Fernandez twice, sailing back and forth trying to find the island , while their crews died of scurvy. Finally after a raid or two on the Spanish coast, the survivors of Gloucester were taken aboard Centurion which continued west, captured the Manila Galleon (thus enriching the survivors) and, having sailed around the world, arrived back in England with 300 men left out of the original 4,000 plus who had sailed with the expedition three years earlier.
The entire voyage is the subject of a great historical novel by Van Wyck Brooks - Manila Galleon. Published in the sixties and there are a lot of accounts of the voyage purportedly written by some of the survivors the titles of which can be found on line and the originals of which repose in various libraries in England. Patrick O'Brian has used these plus his imagination and considerable talent to construct this novel of the voyage and wreck of Wager and the incredible story of how no more than six of her survivors (including her captain) managed to travel with unbelievable hardship and peril 500 miles up the coast of Patagonia to safety in Valparaiso a year after they were wrecked. (Some of the other survivors had constructed a boat and sailed east around the Horn to eventual safety in England.)
Some observations: First, either signing or being pressed as a below deck seaman on one of HM's warships in mid eighteenth century was tantamount to a death sentence. Unbelievable harsh discipline (flogging etc.), fetid, crowded "living" conditions (existence is a better word than "living"), terrible food, disease, scurvy, injuries aloft and on deck and primitive medical treatment simply made life short for all. (I don't think it was so bad on merchant ships - which were less crowded) Men slept if at all in hammocks slung six inches apart, messed if at all in the same small space and saw no light unless it came through the small hatch which led to their quarters. There was no ventilation, no light. A perfect breeding ground for disease of any and all kinds. Yet many chose this life. I think it was the sense of comradeship which comes from enduring together the same perils and the same hardships.
Second, this is one of O'Brian's first books and in many ways it sets the tone for the ones which followed. He was a true historian and designates objects and places by names which, while current in the eighteenth century need translation today. (As matter of fact there are Glossaries to be used reading O'Brian's books.) Then there is the relationship between two males - one, the true seaman. The other the scientist - usually a naturalist.
Third, even though one has an understanding today of the need for discipline aboard a sailing ship - especially a ship-of-war - (They were complicated affairs, with sails, masts, halyards and lines, all of which had to be tended by several people in unison for the safety of all; they carried all their own food and water, had no heat - even in the coldest waters - and, above all, were at the mercy of the wind, the weather, the currents and the water 24/7 and had no way of knowing their longitude until the invention of the chronometer in the mid 1700.) - it is hard to accept even today the extent of the iron, merciless discipline, the punishments, the beatings, the floggings and the basic, sadistic inhumanity practiced at nearly every level in th Royal Navy.
So in the current book - which was one of O'Brian's first efforts at writing - we start out with two eighteen year olds going to sea with Anson. One of them is Jack Byron, Midshipman RN, the other a scholarly friend, heir to an English fortune who wants to get away. Several pages are devoted to their journey from their homes to Spithead where they join the Wager and these are hard going, but once at sea he starts explaining how it is to be aboard on of HM's ships in the mid eighteenth century and he's really good at this. Then, of course the ship is wrecked and the story turns tomutiny, survival and hard times and you have to read it to believe it. I did - twice (once in 2008 and just recently) and I think it is reasonably historically accurate - the cold, the rain the huge seas, the lack of food, the slow and terrible trip in an open boat up the Patagonian coast in the winter seas, blizzards and winds. One of the great stories of survival in an open boat - worthy of Bligh or Shackleton. All of this made for slow reading, (I had to get a map to follow the journey and I read the descriptions carefully. They were, as a matter of fact, pretty accurate I think. And if you go to Google Earth of Google Earth or google Wager on the internet and then follow up on some of the places mentioned you will see that now there are rather luxurious hotels with gorgeous views set in the very spots where the survivors of the Wager almost starved to death.
At the end of the day O'Brian has told us about how it was to be at sea in the Royal Navy in 1720, how it was to be wrecked on the Patagonian Coast in mid winter and has set the scene for the next similar duo which were to be the central construct in his many, many novels of the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars. I speak of Jack Aubrey and Andr� Maturin.
If you like sea stories this is one of the great all-time winners
Great Book. Good history.
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An early Patrick O'Brian that delivers magnificently!
By Diane C. Fox
The prototypes of POB's later characters Aubrey and Maturin are here, with all their considerable charm. The adventures are exciting and marvellously defined. The language is delightful. There simply is no one else like POB. He's a readers' writer. There is history, culture, philosophy and action to spare. If you enjoy reading the best of the best and nothing second rate, you must add this author to your list. He is one of the giants of 20th century literature, along with W. Somerset Maugham and Winston Graham, but in my view, surpasses both.
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