Post Captain
- Published
- 1 January 1972
- Pages
- 528
- ISBN-13
- 9780007180820
- Type
- novel
About this book
"Post Captain" (1972, 528 pages) is the second Aubrey-Maturin novel, continuing directly from "Master and Commander" as O'Brian's twenty-book sequence unfolds as one unbroken narrative rather than a series of standalone adventures, following Jack Aubrey's rise through the Napoleonic-era Navy alongside Stephen Maturin's parallel, secret career gathering intelligence.
Key facts about Post Captain
Patrick O'Brian wrote Post Captain, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1972. The book has 528 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780007180820 to find the main one.
Post Captain is book 2 of 21 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. The series has 21 published books. However, the series starts with Master and Commander (1969). The Hundred Days is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 28 September 1998.
That series sits on our historical fiction shelf. Meanwhile, The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey is the latest published Patrick O'Brian book on file, from 2004.
About Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian (1914-2000) was a British novelist and translator best known for the Aubrey-Maturin series, twenty novels of Napoleonic-era naval fiction following Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey and his close friend, the ship's surgeon and intelligence agent Stephen Maturin. See every Patrick O'Brian book in order.
Its place in Aubrey-Maturin
Post Captain is book 2 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows Master and Commander. It is followed by HMS Surprise. 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 9780007180820
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780736622240
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007180844