311 pages
English language
Published Dec. 27, 2007 by Harper Perennial.
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Captain Jack Aubrey, RN, arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a despatch vessel. But the war of 1812 breaks out while they are en route.
Subjects
- Jack Aubrey (Fictitious character)
- Fiction
- Stephen Maturin (Fictitious character)
- Seafaring life
- History