Beasts Royal: Twelve Tales of Adventure

Beasts Royal: Twelve Tales of Adventure
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Beasts Royal is the second book written by Patrick O’Brian – made available, at last, for the first time since the 1930s and elegantly repackaged.On the indigo waters of the South Sea, the crew of a schooner are attacked by a man-eating tiger-shark. In the humid depths of the African jungle, a thirty-foot python plots to rid himself of his rival, a wily old crocodile. Amid the heat and dust of the Punjab, the snake-charmer Hussein escapes into the forest on the elephant that he trained when a mahout in his youth.With the dry wit and unsentimental precision O’Brian would come to be loved for, we see the drama and tragedies of the natural world unfold for these, as well as other birds and beasts, in these twelve tales of animal adventure that would appear together in 1934 as the author’s second book.O’Brian’s debut, Caesar, had been published in 1930 and became an instant success, seeing him hailed as the ‘boy-Thoreau’. His second novel, Hussein, would expand upon one of the stories included in this collection and has been praised by Martin Booth of The Daily Telegraph as being ‘…as fresh today as when it was written.…so rich in detail, it is breathtaking.’ As with Caesar and Hussein, Beasts Royal sheds fascinating light on the formation of the literary genius behind the Aubrey-Maturin series of historical adventure tales, for which he is deservedly famous.

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Patrick O’Brian. Beasts Royal: Twelve Tales of Adventure

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Dedication

I. Shark No. 206

II. A Peregrine Falcon

III. Skogula – The Sperm Whale

IV. Python

V. The Condor of Quetzalcoatl

VI. Old Cronk

VII. Gorilla

VIII. Wang Kahn

IX. Rhino

X. The White Cobra

XI. Jehangir Bahadur

XII. Jellaludin

Further reading

The Works of Patrick O’Brian

About the Publisher

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TO

MY FATHER

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The bo’sun went below for an axe with which to cut the shark’s spine when they had it on deck.

Fighting every inch, the tiger-shark was slowly nearing the surface when he realized that if he did not get off the hook quickly, he would never get off it at all.

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