Aubrey-Maturin · Book 2
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.
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