Once again we follow the exploits of Captain Jack Aubrey, a British naval officer, and Stephen Maturin, Aubrey’s particular friend, ship surgeon, and spy. The Far Side of the World, an excellent navy fiction novel by Patrick O’Brian, is the book that gave…
The ninth novel in Patrick O’Brian’s Maturin/Aubrey saga is set in Malta following the events in The Ionian Mission. Captain Aubrey’s favorite ship, HMS Surprise, is undergoing repairs. However, Malta is swarming with Napoleonic agents, so that Stephen Maturin is kept very busy. And to…
This is the eight book in the Aubrey/Maturin series of nautical fiction novels by Patrick O’Brian. Captain Jack Aubrey has been given the Worcester, a ship of the line of 1842 tons, and is to sail her to The Mediterranean to join the British Naval…
The Golden Ocean is a relatively unknown tale of the sea by Patrick O’Brian. This was the first historical tale of the sea by Patrick O’Brian, written in 1956 before he started on the Aubrey Maturin series. It is a…
This is the seventh installment in the popular and long-running Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian. The Surgeon’s Mate is a historical novel set during the Napoleonic Wars. Here we catch up with Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin just after they have gotten out of…
