Aubrey-Maturin · Book 7
The Surgeon's Mate
- Published
- 1 January 1980
- Pages
- 382
- ISBN-13
- 9780007255894
- Type
- novel
About this book
At 382 pages, "The Surgeon's Mate" (1980) is the seventh book in Patrick O'Brian's single continuous Aubrey-Maturin narrative, carrying Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin's story further through the naval politics and period detail the series is prized for.
Its place in Aubrey-Maturin
The Surgeon's Mate is book 7 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows The Fortune of War. It is followed by The Ionian Mission. 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 9780393037074
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781433271823
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780001054714