
21
The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
Patrick O'Brian(Author)
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Published on 1. April 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
152 pages
978-1-324-10521-3 (ISBN)
Description
Patrick O'Brian's Blue at the Mizzen-novel #20 in the widely celebrated Aubrey/Maturin series-ended with Jack Aubrey getting the news, in Chile, of his elevation to flag rank: rear admiral of the Blue Squadron, with orders to sail to the South Africa station. The next novel, unfinished and untitled at the time of the author's death, would have been the chronicle of that mission, and much else besides. The three chapters left on O'Brian's desk are presented here both in printed version-including his corrections to the typescript-and a facsimile of his manuscript, which goes several pages beyond the end of the typescript to include a duel between Stephen Maturin and an impertinent officer who is courting his fiancee. These chapters show that O'Brian's powers of observation, his humor, and his understanding of his characters were undiminished to the end.
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Edition
Book 21
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 251 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
246 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-324-10521-3 (9781324105213)
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02/2012
W. W. Norton & Company
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Persons
One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O'Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.