Aubrey-Maturin · Book 10
The Far Side of the World
- Published
- 1 January 1984
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9780786178629
- Type
- novel
About this book
"The Far Side of the World" (1984, 368 pages) follows "Treason's Harbour" as the tenth Aubrey-Maturin novel, sending Jack and Stephen further from the Mediterranean into the wider world the series ranges across, from the East Indies to the coast of South America.
Its place in Aubrey-Maturin
The Far Side of the World is book 10 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows Treason's Harbour. It is followed by The Reverse of the Medal. 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 9780786219308
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780006170174
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780393037104