Aubrey-Maturin · Book 13
The Thirteen-Gun Salute
- Published
- 1 January 1989
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780007275564
- Type
- novel
About this book
Patrick O'Brian published "The Thirteen-Gun Salute" in 1989 as the thirteenth Aubrey-Maturin book, 320 pages continuing a series whose appeal rests on density and precision — the sailing, gunnery, medicine and naval politics of the period rendered in unapologetic, immersive detail.
Its place in Aubrey-Maturin
The Thirteen-Gun Salute is book 13 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows The Letter of Marque. It is followed by The Nutmeg of Consolation. 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
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