Beasts Royal: Twelve Tales of AdventureBeasts Royal is the second book written by Patrick OBrian 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