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Blue at the Mizzen

Aubrey-Maturin Series, Book 20

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Blue at the Mizzen

By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
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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.

The South American expedition is a desperate affair; and in the end Jack's bold initiative to strike at the vastly superior Spanish fleet precipitates a spectacular naval action that will determine both Chile's fate and his own.

©1999 Patrick O'Brian (P)2014 Audible Studios Action & Adventure Espionage Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Medical Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Fiction Emotionally Gripping Heartfelt Latin American

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The whole Aubrey and Maturin series is a tour de force. It's basically one enormous completely engaging story. I'll never tire of revisiting this wonderful naval world. This audio version is brilliantly brought to life by Ric Jerrom. Highly recommended.

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Awesome series what’s not to love? Great narrator who gets the story, I need more!

Brilliant

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I actually had a slight wobble of the lip in the last ten minutes. At what is now almost the end of the series I see the regular crew, Jack and Stephen as more than just characters in books - I almost feel I know them.
Men of honour and role models as well as adventurers and philosophers- the young people of today could do worse than study these books and the subliminal messages they contain ...

Great book as usual - great narration.

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I very much enjoyed this book but the pleasure is tinged with a little sadness knowing that it is the last full Aubrey Maturin novel. well read as always and very much makes you think that even after all this time, perhaps especially, a movie sequel with the same cast could be excellent.

A fitting end ... Ish

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Sadly the last in the series of great sea adventures from O'Brian with excellent narration from Ric Jerrom.

Another cracking tale

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