Aubrey-Maturin · Book 9
Treason's Harbour
- Published
- 1 January 1983
- Pages
- 351
- ISBN-13
- 9780007255917
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published in 1983 at 351 pages, "Treason's Harbour" is the ninth book in O'Brian's twenty-novel sequence, part of a series praised for its historical authenticity and dry wit as much as for its plotting — a character study set aboard warships more than a conventional war-adventure.
Its place in Aubrey-Maturin
Treason's Harbour is book 9 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows The Ionian Mission. It is followed by The Far Side of the World. 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 9780393088564
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780786172818
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780001054974