Aubrey-Maturin · Book 14
The Nutmeg of Consolation
- Published
- 1 January 1991
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780002234610
- Type
- novel
About this book
"The Nutmeg of Consolation" (1991, 320 pages) followed "The Thirteen-Gun Salute" into print as the fourteenth Aubrey-Maturin novel, carrying Jack and Stephen's friendship and careers further through the world's oceans that give the series its scope.
Its place in Aubrey-Maturin
The Nutmeg of Consolation is book 14 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows The Thirteen-Gun Salute. It is followed by Clarissa Oakes. 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 9780002234610
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007275571
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007429400