Life ashore seems to be the undoing of Jack Aubrey. Fortunately, he hears that the Chileans require a navy, and the service of English officers. He is savouring this apparent reprieve for his career when he receives an urgent despatch ordering him to Gibraltar: Napoleon has escaped from Elba.

The Yellow Admiral

Literature & Fiction

David Case

Patrick. O'Brian

Contemporary

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Post Captain

Harpercollins

H.M.S. 'Surprise

Firebird Distributing

The Reverse of the Medal

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

Thrown out of the navy for a crime he did not commit, Jack Aubrey has lost everything he held most dear. 
In command of his beloved Surprise, but in a civilian capacity, Jack Aubrey must navigate a world apart from anything he has previously known, his friend Stephen Maturin at his side. Together they embark on a voyage which, if successful, might just restore Aubrey to the rank, and the raison d'etre, whose loss he so much regrets.\nFate is fickle and few people can ever truly be trusted, but has Jack Aubrey’s luck run out?\n‘Patrick O’Brian is unquestionably the Homer of the Napoleonic wars.’ 
JAMES HAMILTON PATERSON\n‘My hero is Patrick O’Brian. It’s basically impossible to write that well.’ 
DAVID MAMET

The Letter of Marque

The Thirteen-Gun Salute

Genre Fiction

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, 1st Harper Collins Edition Thus, 1st Impression. Thick Royal 8vo. 402pp. Frontispiece ship illustration. Clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or marks of any kind. In very good bright gilt lettered blue cloth and clipped pictorial dustwrapper featuring ship at sea illustration, rubbed to foot of wrapper. The first and seminal novel of the Aubrey-Maturin series.

Master and Commander

HarperCollins, Publishers

Collins

Desolation Island

First published in 1978 a historical maritime adventure featuring Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin, who are bound for Australia with a cargo of convicts, among them a beautiful but dangerous spy and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. By the author of HMS SURPRISE and POST CAPTAIN.

Action & Adventure

The Fortune of War

Literary

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