Aubrey & Maturin Series by Patrick O'Brian, Simon Vance, Richard Snow

4.35 · 515 ratings
  • Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin #1)
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    Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin #1)

    Patrick O'Brian

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings · published 1969

    As the Royal Navy takes part in the wars against Napoleonic France, young Jack Aubrey receives his first command, the small, old, and slow HMS Sophie. Accompanied by his eccentric new friend, the physician and naturalist Stephen Maturin, Aubrey does battle with the naval hierarchy, with his own tendency to make social blunders, and with the challenges of forging an effective crew -- before ultimately taking on enemy ships in a vivid, intricately detailed series of sea battles.

  • Feindliche Segel (Aubrey & Maturin #2)
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    Feindliche Segel (Aubrey & Maturin #2)

    Patrick O'Brian

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings · published 1972

    Master and Commander raised almost dangerously high expectations Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them a brilliant book Mary Renault. The best historical novels ever written- New York Times

  • Duell vor Sumatra (Aubrey & Maturin #3)
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    Duell vor Sumatra (Aubrey & Maturin #3)

    Patrick O'Brian

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings · published 1973

    Amid sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent explore ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy enjoying overwhelming local superiority. Somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the prize that could make him rich - ships sent by Napoleon to attack the China Fleet.

  • Geheimauftrag Mauritius (Aubrey & Maturin #4)
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    Geheimauftrag Mauritius (Aubrey & Maturin #4)

    Patrick O'Brian

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings · published 1977

    Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command, until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant, there to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Reacute union. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains—Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity pushes his crew to the verge of mutiny.

  • Sturm in der Antarktis (Aubrey & Maturin #5)
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    Sturm in der Antarktis (Aubrey & Maturin #5)

    Patrick O'Brian

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings · published 1978

    Captain Bligh (yes, the guy from the Bounty) needs to be rescued, and the Royal Navy has the perfect man for the job: Captain Jack Aubrey. With his friend and cloak-and-dagger expert Stephen Maturin in tow, Aubrey sets off for Australia. Several factors, including an attractive spy and a small-scale epidemic, conspire to change his plans, and before long his frigate is being pursued into Antarctic waters by a Dutch man-of-war.

  • Kanonen auf hoher See (Aubrey & Maturin #6)
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    Kanonen auf hoher See (Aubrey & Maturin #6)

    Patrick O'Brian

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings · published 1979

    This time it's the War of 1812 that gets in the way of Captain Jack Aubery's plans. Caught en route to England in a dispatch vessel, Aubrey and Maturin are soon in the thick of a typically bloody naval engagement. Next stop: an American prison, from which only Maturin's cunning allows them to engineer an exit.

  • Verfolgung im Nebel (Aubrey & Maturin #7)
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    Verfolgung im Nebel (Aubrey & Maturin #7)

    Patrick O'Brian

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings · published 1980

    Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attention of two privateers soon becomes menacing. The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is as tense, and as unexpected in its culmination, as anything Patrick O'Brian has written.

  • The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin #8)
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    The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin #8)

    Patrick O'Brian, Simon Vance

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings · published 1981

    Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But a sudden turn of events takes them off on a hazardous mission to the Greek isles, where they are soon involved in fierce and thrilling action.

  • Treason's Harbour (Aubrey & Maturin #9)
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    Treason's Harbour (Aubrey & Maturin #9)

    Patrick O'Brian, Simon Vance

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings · published 1983

    All Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the center stage for the dockyards and salons of Malta are alive with Napoleon's agents, and the admiralty's intelligence network is compromised. Maturin's cunning is the sole bulwark against sabotage of Aubrey's daring mission.

  • Manöver um Feuerland  (The Far Side of the World) (Aubrey & Maturin #10)
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    Manöver um Feuerland (The Far Side of the World) (Aubrey & Maturin #10)

    Patrick O'Brian

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings · published 1984

    Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for Cape Horn, determined to intercept an American frigate before it can wreak havoc on the British whaling trade. As always, he is accompanied by intelligence operative Stephen Maturin, and as always, Aubrey has no idea of what his companion is up to. Another impeccably written adventure, by the end of which you should be able to identify a mizzen topsail in your sleep.

  • The Reverse of the Medal (Aubrey & Maturin #11)
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    The Reverse of the Medal (Aubrey & Maturin #11)

    Patrick O'Brian

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings · published 1986

    Ashore between cruises, Captain Jack Aubrey is persuaded to sink some money into an investment scheme. Soon this innocent decision enmeshes him in various criminal and even treasonous enterprises, which threaten to destroy his entire career. Bad luck? A deliberate plot? Read this latest installment of the Aubrey-Maturin saga to find out.

  • The Letter of Marque (Aubrey & Maturin #12)
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    The Letter of Marque (Aubrey & Maturin #12)

    Patrick O'Brian

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings · published 1988

    Captain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old friend Stephen Maturin, usually cast as a ship's surgeon to mask his discreet activities on behalf of British Intelligence, has bought for Aubrey his former ship the Surprise to command as a privateer, more politely termed a letter of marque... more

  • The Thirteen-Gun Salute (Aubrey & Maturin #13)
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    The Thirteen-Gun Salute (Aubrey & Maturin #13)

    Patrick O'Brian

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings · published 1989

    Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life. Following reinstatement into the Royal Navy. Maturin climbs the Thousand Steps of the sacred crater of the orangutans. A killer typhoon catches Aubrey and his crew trying to work the Diane off a reef. In the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang a diplomatic mission tries to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes which would put English merchant shipping at risk.

  • Nutmeg of Consolation (Aubrey & Maturin #14)
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    Nutmeg of Consolation (Aubrey & Maturin #14)

    Patrick O'Brian, Simon Vance

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 1991

    Shipwrecked on a remote island and threatened by Malay pirates, Captain Aubrey and crew barely escape before facing a diplomatic crisis at the harrowingly dreadful penal colony in New South Wales.

  • The Truelove (Aubrey & Maturin #15)
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    The Truelove (Aubrey & Maturin #15)

    Patrick O'Brian

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings · published 1991

    A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the sandwich islands at French instigation, and Captain Aubrey, R. N., Is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away in the cable-tier is an escaped female convict. To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies. Aubrey himself is won over and indeed strongly attracted to this woman who will not speak of her past. But only Aubrey's friend, Dr... more

  • Gefährliche See vor Kap Hoorn (Aubrey & Maturin #16)
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    Gefährliche See vor Kap Hoorn (Aubrey & Maturin #16)

    Patrick O'Brian

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings · published 1993

    In this installment of O'Brian's maritime epic, Captain Aubrey and the crew of the Surprise are pursuing an American privateer through the Great South Sea. As is his custom, O'Brian grabs your attention with the first, beautifully memorable sentence: "A purple ocean, vast under the sky and devoid of all visible life apart from two minute ships racing across its immensity." And he doesn't relinquish it until 260 pages later, by which point Jack Aubrey is delighted at the mere fact of being alive.

  • The Commodore (Aubrey & Maturin #17)
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    The Commodore (Aubrey & Maturin #17)

    Patrick O'Brian

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings · published 1994

    Having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, at least initially, but for Stephen it is disastrous: his little daughter appears to be autistic, incapable of speech or contact, while his wife, Diana, unable to bear this situation, has disappeared, her house being looked after by the widowed Clarissa Oakes... more

  • The Yellow Admiral (Aubrey & Maturin #18)
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    The Yellow Admiral (Aubrey & Maturin #18)

    Patrick O'Brian

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings · published 1996

    Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O'Brian's best-selling novel and eighteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series... more

  • The Hundred Days (Aubrey & Maturin #19)
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    The Hundred Days (Aubrey & Maturin #19)

    Patrick O'Brian

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings · published 1998

    Napoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead the French armies to triumph at Waterloo. In the Balkans, preparing a thrust northwards into Central Europe to block the Russians and Austrians, a horde of Muslim mercenaries is gathering... more

  • Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey & Maturin #20)
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    Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey & Maturin #20)

    Patrick O'Brian

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings · published 1999

    Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a peacetime navy. When the Surprise is nearly sunk on her way to South America—where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain—the delay occasioned by repairs reaps a harvest of strange consequences... more

  • Master and Commander:  20 Volume Set (Aubrey & Maturin #1-20)
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    Master and Commander: 20 Volume Set (Aubrey & Maturin #1-20)

    Patrick O'Brian

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2000

    Comprising:Master & Commander;Post Captain;H.M.S. 'Surprise';The Mauritius Command;Desolation Island;The Fortune of War;The Surgeon's Mate;The Ionian Mission;Treason's Harbour;The Far Side of the World;The Reverse of the Medal;The Letter of Marque;The Thirteen-Gun Salute;The Nutmeg of Consolation;The Truelove/Clarissa Oakes;The Wine-Dark Sea;The Commodore;The Yellow Admiral;The Hundred Days;Blue at the Mizzen.

  • The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (Aubrey & Maturin #21)
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    The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (Aubrey & Maturin #21)

    Patrick O'Brian, Richard Snow

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2004

    Transcription of the handwritten pages:http://www.hmssurprise.org/Resources/... In response to the interest of millions of Patrick O'Brian fans, 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... more

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