[bolger] Patrick O'Brian appreciation.

A personal memoir of encounters with Patrick O'Brian by Washington Post
reporter Ken Ringle, who wrote an article headlined "Is This the Greatest
Writer You've Never Heard Of?" which introduced O'Brian to a wider American
public.

http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-01/08/089l-010800-idx.ht
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