English Audio - English Audio Books

A world of enchanting fictional surfaces.New York Review of Books

Taken together, the novels are a brilliant achievement. They display staggering erudition on
almost all aspects of eighteenth-century life, with impeccable period detail. In addition. OBrian
has a gift for the comic.Times Literary Supplement

Like Aubrey and Maturin playing Mozart duets beneath a Pacific Moon, he works elegant variations
on the tradition of the seafaring adventure story.New York Times Book Review

Gripping and vivid.A. S. Byatt, author

The War of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own
heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling
trade. Stephen Maturin has orders of his own in the world of secret intelligence. Disaster in various
guises awaits them in the Great South Sea and in the far reaches of the Pacific: typhoons, castaways,
shipwrecks, murder, and criminal insanity.

Earphones Awards recipient Simon Vance was born in England and worked for the BBC for ten years as a radio news announcer, and also as a narrator for the Royal National Institute for the Blind in London. Besides narrating audiobooks, he is involved in numerous stage-acting projects in the United States and Europe.