Aubrey-Maturin · Book 18
The Yellow Admiral
- Published
- 1 January 1996
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9780007275618
- Type
- novel
About this book
Patrick O'Brian published "The Yellow Admiral" in 1996 as the eighteenth Aubrey-Maturin book, 368 pages continuing the character study of Jack Aubrey's appetite and courage against Stephen Maturin's melancholy intellect that has defined the series since "Master and Commander."
Its place in Aubrey-Maturin
The Yellow Admiral is book 18 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows The Commodore. It is followed by The Hundred Days. 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 9780007275618
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780753158265
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007429271