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Aubrey–Maturin series

Post Captain

With the Treaty of Amiens, England is at peace. At least for now. . .

Accompanied by his friend, ship’s surgeon and spy Stephen Maturin, Captain Jack Aubrey has returned home to England and the life of a country gentleman. But their comfortable experience is cut short when Jack is made a pauper overnight. He flees to the continent, narrowly escaping debtor’s prison, only to find himself a hunted fugitive from Napoleon’s regime as, yet again, war looms.

‘Outstanding dialogue, characterisation, humour and a golden thread of romance.’KATIE FFORDE

‘The Aubrey–Maturin novels, by Patrick O’Brian, are so addictive that after I finish one I have to hide the next from myself for a little while in order to do anything else but read.’LOUISE ERDRICH

Whether on land or at sea, can Jack Aubrey stay one step ahead of his enemies?


Author:

  • Patrick O’Brian

Narrator:

  • Robert Hardy

Series:

  • Volume 2 in Aubrey–Maturin series

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 4 h 31 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Adventure
  • Historic adventure

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  • 36 books

    Patrick O’Brian

    Patrick O’Brian was born in 1914 and published his first book, , when he was only fifteen. In the 1960s he began work on the idea that, over the next four decades, evolved into the twenty-novel long Aubrey–Maturin series (with an extra unfinished volume published posthumously). In 1995 he was awarded the CBE, and in 1997 he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Trinity College, Dublin. He died in January 2000 at the age of 85.

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