✍ Scribed by Patrick O'Brian
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
To the delight of millions of Patrick O'Brian fans, here is the final, partial installment of the Aubrey/Maturin series, for the first time in paperback.
Blue at the Mizzen (novel #20) 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 fiancée.
Of course we would rather have had the whole story; instead we have this proof that O'Brian's powers of observation, his humor, and his understanding of his characters were undiminished to the end.
Library : General
Universes : Aubrey & Maturin [21]
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780393339338
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At the time of his death, Patrick O'Brian had begun to write a novel to follow on from Blue at the Mizzen, the twentieth book in the classic series. These are the chapters he had completed of the final voyage of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin. Now they are available for the first time in electronic
L’éditeur exprime sa gratitude à M. Édouard André Vergos, l’auteur de ce petit livre qui, pour reprendre ses termes, « regroupe ce que tout un chacun peut trouver, à condition de se référer à de multiples sources ». Initié dès son plus jeune âge par son grand-père et son père qui, tous deux, navigu