Aubrey-Maturin · Book 20
Blue at the Mizzen
- Published
- 1 January 1999
- Pages
- 262
- ISBN-13
- 9780007275632
- Type
- novel
About this book
Patrick O'Brian published "Blue at the Mizzen" in 1999 as the twentieth and, in his lifetime, final completed Aubrey-Maturin novel — 262 pages closing out the numbered sequence before the posthumous fragment that followed.
Its place in Aubrey-Maturin
Blue at the Mizzen is book 20 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows The Hundred Days. It is followed by The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey. See the full Aubrey-Maturin reading order.
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels follow the friendship of Jack Aubrey, a bluff, brilliant, and perpetually broke Royal Navy officer, and Stephen Maturin, the ship's surgeon who is also a naturalist and, unbeknownst to most of the crew, a British intelligence agent. The two meet as strangers at a concert in Menorca in 1800 — nearly duelling before becoming friends — and the twenty novels that follow chart Jack's rise through the Napoleonic-era Navy and Stephen's parallel career gathering intelligence across…
Editions
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