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An immediate precursor to Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series, displaying all the splendid prose and focus on detail that O'Brian's readers expect. Patrick O'Brian's first novel about the ocean, 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 the 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 the coast of Chile until she was driven up against the rocks and sank. The survivors were soon involved with trouble of each 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 small number of men made their way northward under the guidance of your band of Indians, finally finding safety in Valparaiso.
This saga of survival is the backdrop to the adventures of two teenagers 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 need particular affinity for this story, as Jack and Toby form some sort of blueprint for Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, the famed heroes of the great Aubrey/Maturin series to come.
