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Aubrey-Maturin · Book 18

The Yellow Admiral

by Patrick O'Brian
Published
1 January 1996
Pages
368
ISBN-13
9780007275618
Type
novel
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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."

Key facts about The Yellow Admiral

The Yellow Admiral is a novel by Patrick O'Brian. Readers have had it since 1996. It runs to 368 pages.

Our list holds 3 editions of The Yellow Admiral. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780007275618 to find the main one.

The Yellow Admiral is book 18 of 21 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. The series has 21 published books. However, the series starts with Master and Commander (1969). The Hundred Days is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 28 September 1998.

That series sits on our historical fiction shelf. Meanwhile, The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey is the latest published Patrick O'Brian book on file, from 2004.

About Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O'Brian (1914-2000) was a British novelist and translator best known for the Aubrey-Maturin series, twenty novels of Napoleonic-era naval fiction following Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey and his close friend, the ship's surgeon and intelligence agent Stephen Maturin. See every Patrick O'Brian book in order.

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…

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