patrick o'brian

An appropriate title for the thirteenth volume in the series! This is another great book in the on-going saga of the Napoleonic actions of Aubrey and Maturin. Aubrey’s name has been cleared after his unfortunate debacle with the stock market and he is put back on the navy list; something far...

There was a sputter of discussion on O'Brian and these books at Chrons -- Patrick O'Brian It seems appropriate to have a place here for the discussion of these books. I'm reading my fourth of them, The Fortune of War -- I haven't been trying to read them in sequence. This attracted me as one...