Download or read book The Golden Ocean written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-eighteenth century, Peter Palafox, the son of a poor Irish parson, signs on a ship as a midshipman, just in time for Anson's epic circumnavigation of the world.