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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 1
Aubrey-Maturin volume 1
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 1
Aubrey and Maturin
Aubrey-Maturin volume 1
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 1
Aubrey and Maturin
Language
English
Formats
Description
This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind...
Author
Series
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 4
Aubrey and Maturin volume 4
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 4
Aubrey and Maturin volume 4
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 4
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1991, c1977
Physical Desc
348 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Captain Jack Aubrey, given secret orders to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Reunion, finds his mission endangered by the behavior of two of his crew members.
Author
Series
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
1984
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and fearless captain in Nelson's navy, accepts a mission that will test his abilities to the limit: he is to set sail immediately for Cape Horn, to intercept a powerful frigate intent on wreaking havoc among British whalers. Aubrey's beloved ship, HMS Surprise, is up to the task, but many of her sailors are untried. Aubrey's confidant, ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, has orders of his own in the world of secret intelligence....
4) Post captain
Author
Series
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 2
Aubrey and Maturin volume 2
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 2
Aubrey and Maturin volume 2
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Captain Jack Aubrey, hiding out in France from his creditors, is forced to run for his life when Napoleon goes to war again in 1803.
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1991, c1979
Physical Desc
[ ] p.
Language
English
Description
Captain Jack Aubrey's hasty trip aboard a dispatch vessel from the Dutch East Indies to England where he is supposed to take command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy, is interrupted by the outbreak of the War of 1812.
Author
Series
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1993, c1991
Physical Desc
315 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sequel to: The Thirteen Gun Salute. Captain Aubrey, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane are shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies.
7) The truelove
Author
Series
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 15
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 15
Aubrey and Maturin volume 15
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 15
Aubrey and Maturin volume 15
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1993, c1992
Physical Desc
256 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Captain Jack Aubrey, dispatched with the "Surprise" to restore order in the Sandwich Islands where a British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief, must first deal with the chaos that erupts on his own ship when it is discovered one of the mates has smuggled aboard a prostitute.
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
281 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
First sent on a decoy mission to the Gulf of Guinea, Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent are tested at their true destination, Ireland, where the French are mounting an invasion.
Author
Series
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
261 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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A Royal Navy warship is dispatched to the Pacific to help Chile fight for its independence from Spain. Twentieth volume in a series featuring Captain Jack Aubery and ship's doctor Stephen Maturin.
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