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.
Key facts about The Ionian Mission
The Ionian Mission is a novel by Patrick O'Brian. Readers have had it since 1981. It runs to 367 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of The Ionian Mission. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780007255900 to find the main one.
The Ionian Mission is book 8 of 21 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. The series has 21 published books. However, the series starts with Master and Commander (1969). The Hundred Days is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 28 September 1998.
That series sits on our historical fiction shelf. Meanwhile, The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey is the latest published Patrick O'Brian book on file, from 2004.
About Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian (1914-2000) was a British novelist and translator best known for the Aubrey-Maturin series, twenty novels of Napoleonic-era naval fiction following Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey and his close friend, the ship's surgeon and intelligence agent Stephen Maturin. See every Patrick O'Brian book in order.
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