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O'Brian,Patrick

The Final, Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey

HarperCollins, 2005

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Year of publication
2005
ISBN
0007194706
Place of printing
London
Author
O'Brian,Patrick
Publishers
HarperCollins
Edition
1st Pbk Edition
Keyword
HISTORICAL FICTION SEA STORIES ROYAL NAVY NAPOLEONIC WARS
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
New
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

"Here is the final, partial installment of the Aubrey/Maturin series. 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 at the time of his death 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 fiancÈe. 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.Foreword by William Waldegrave xiv.136p.