My Brother Yves Author:Pierre Loti My Brother Yves tells of the unlikely, intense friendship that grows at sea between an educated officer and a semi-literate country boy with a violent streak and a tendency toward alcoholism. Yves and Pierre contract a pact akin to the medieval blood brotherhood, and this commitment is ultimately the salvation of the wayward Yves. A true ... more »story, My Brother Yves is set in the 1870s and '80s and takes us vividly back to the days of the tall ships and mid-Victorian Brittany. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Pierre Loti is the pen name of Julien Viaud (1850-1923), a career French Navy officer who attained the high rank of Captaine de Vaisseau. He produced a dozen somewhat autobiographical novels, many with an oriental flavor and most with a strong sea-faring element, as well as six lyrical travel narratives.« less