Aubrey-Maturin · Book 15
Clarissa Oakes
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 329
- ISBN-13
- 9781405621496
- Type
- novel
About this book
Book fifteen of Patrick O'Brian's sequence, "Clarissa Oakes" was published in 1992 at 329 pages, continuing the single unbroken narrative that traces Jack Aubrey's naval career and Stephen Maturin's parallel work as a naturalist and secret intelligence agent.
Its place in Aubrey-Maturin
Clarissa Oakes is book 15 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows The Nutmeg of Consolation. It is followed by The Wine-Dark Sea. 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
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781405621496
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781405611626
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