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The Commodore
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Patrick O'Brian |
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All twenty books are being re-issued by Harper Perennial with stunning new … |
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Dangerous work
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
Conan Doyle's diary and log of his time served as a surgeon on a whaling ship in 1880. Annotated, and includes several incidental pieces derived from his experience, including the Sherlock Holmes st… |
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Ship's surgeons of the Dutch East India Company
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Iris Diane Rosemary Bruijn |
"The ship's surgeons in the employ of the Dutch East India Company were responsible for the healthcare on board the ships and in the hospitals founded by the Company in a vast geographical area expan… |
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Tobias Smollett
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Jeremy Lewis |
Tobias Smollett was a prodigious wordsmith. Grub Street was his habitat and hack work his staple, but, as Jeremy Lewis vividly makes clear in this biography, the first for nearly sixty years, there w… |
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The Reverse of the Medal
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Patrick O'Brian,Patrick Ob4brian |
First edition in Polish. |
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