Aubrey-Maturin · Book 8
The Ionian Mission
- Published
- 1 January 1981
- Pages
- 367
- ISBN-13
- 9780007255900
- Type
- novel
About this book
"The Ionian Mission" (1981, 367 pages) follows "The Surgeon's Mate" as the eighth Aubrey-Maturin novel, continuing Jack's Napoleonic-era naval career and Stephen's quieter work as a naturalist and intelligence agent in the Mediterranean theatre the series returns to repeatedly.
Its place in Aubrey-Maturin
The Ionian Mission is book 8 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows The Surgeon's Mate. It is followed by Treason's Harbour. 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 9780007429349
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780375415777
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780754017004