Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O'Brian born Richard Patrick Russ, was a novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.

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• "Come," he said, taking her by the hand and leading her to a distant sopha, "come and sit by me, and let us talk of bats."
  • The Unknown Shore (1959).