Aubrey-Maturin · Book 17
The Commodore
- Published
- 1 January 1995
- Pages
- 293
- ISBN-13
- 9780006499329
- Type
- novel
About this book
Preceded by "The Wine-Dark Sea" and followed by "The Yellow Admiral," "The Commodore" (1995, 293 pages) holds the seventeenth spot in the Aubrey-Maturin sequence, deep into Jack and Stephen's decades-long friendship and naval-and-intelligence careers.
Its place in Aubrey-Maturin
The Commodore is book 17 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows The Wine-Dark Sea. It is followed by The Yellow Admiral. 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 9780786171118
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780786148899
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781860420146