Aubrey-Maturin · Book 16
The Wine-Dark Sea
- Published
- 1 January 1993
- Pages
- 295
- ISBN-13
- 9780007275595
- Type
- novel
About this book
"The Wine-Dark Sea" (1993, 295 pages) is the sixteenth book in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series, arriving well into the author's two-decade run of sustained prose quality that has made the series a natural next stop for Hornblower or Sharpe readers wanting more literary ambition.
Its place in Aubrey-Maturin
The Wine-Dark Sea is book 16 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows Clarissa Oakes. It is followed by The Commodore. 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…
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