false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167537735m/24524.jpg 24524 9 In response to the interest of millions of Patrick O'Brian fans, here is the final, partial installment of the Aubrey/Maturin series. <I>Blue at the Mizzen</I> (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&#151;including his corrections to the typescript&#151;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. 1420704 30 10 2004 The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (Aubrey/Maturin Book 21) total:217|5:68|4:65|3:66|2:14|1:4| 217 830 354 28 3 1 false false Sun Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 16 17:59:42 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 20 19:51:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:28:44 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:28:44 -0800 2009 The pages of O'Brian's 21st Aubrey novel will leave readers hungry for more. Not surprisingly, 21 neither stands alone as a novel nor serves as a concise conclusion to the series. Instead, it sketches out the details of the start of another Aubrey mission. The bulk of the chapters offers set-pieces ...

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That Patrick O'Brian chose to place his characters on the sea in the not so distant past just raised the hurdle I had to leap to get to know this wonderful author.

I had never been enamored with sea stories, didn't much care for European history, ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 02:34:15 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 02:35:04 -0700 2008 21. Here are Jack and Stephen back with us again, and though we don't know where their voyage would have taken them in this book, we see them bei...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 10:43:15 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 11:42:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Jun 03 23:13:30 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 03 23:15:44 -0700 2007 inherently, and it's also because I so liked how the 20th book, Blue at the Mizzen, end...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 08:45:46 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 08:50:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 07:51:03 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 07:51:03 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Apr 02 13:40:15 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 10:24:54 -0700 2009 21 is the last fragment of the two-million-word epic that started with Master and Commander and was left unfinished on Patrick O'Brian's death.

Maybe one day I will read it. But that would be the end of the saga - no more Jack & Stephen, ever - and I don't think I could bear it. There ar...more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Jun 01 06:31:46 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 13:36:43 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Jan 17 12:29:04 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 12:31:16 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 20:00:15 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 20:00:57 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Oct 25 20:05:14 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 24 19:09:08 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 20:04:49 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Mar 11 20:50:28 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 11 20:54:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jul 31 17:13:30 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 17:14:32 -0700 2009 1 4 0 false false Sat Mar 14 13:18:12 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 13:18:26 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Jan 16 08:59:37 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 09:00:04 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 08:54:11 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 12:07:14 -0700 2008
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Of interest, beyond speculating about where he was taking the story, is the manuscript that occupies the facing page in this volume. Here we get a glimpse of O'Brian's train of thought as he wrote and how he went about ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=24524