Aubrey-Maturin · Book 21
The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
- Published
- 1 January 2004
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN-13
- 9780007429462
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published posthumously in 2004, "The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey" (192 pages) is a facsimile of the incomplete manuscript Patrick O'Brian left at his death in 2000 — a curiosity for series completists rather than a proper twenty-first novel, since skipping it loses nothing of Jack and Stephen's story.
Its place in Aubrey-Maturin
The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey is book 21 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows Blue at the Mizzen. 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 9780007429462
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781433269448
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781419308932