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The yellow admiral [electronic resource] : Aubrey/maturin series, book 18. Patrick O'Brian.
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- ISBN: 9781464047633 (sound recording)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (10 audio files) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Prince Frederick : Recorded Books Inc., 2012.
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| General Note: | Unabridged. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Narrator: Patrick Tull. |
| Summary, etc.: | 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. Aubrey, now a considerable though impoverished landowner, has dimmed his prospects at the Admiralty by his erratic voting as a Member of Parliament; he is feuding with his neighbor, a man with strong Navy connections who wants to enclose the common land between their estates; he is on even worse terms with his wife, Sophie, whose mother has ferreted out a most damaging trove of old personal letters. Even Jack's exploits at sea turn sour: in the storm waters off Brest he captures a French privateer laden with gold and ivory, but this at the expense of missing a signal and deserting his post. Worst of all, in the spring of 1814, peace breaks out, and this feeds into Jack's private fears for his career. Fortunately, Jack is not left to his own devices. Stephen Maturin returns from a mission in France with the news that the Chileans, to secure their independence, require a navy, and the service of English officers. Jack is savoring this apparent reprieve for his career, as well as Sophie's forgiveness, when he receives an urgent dispatch ordering him to Gibraltar: Napoleon has escaped from Elba. |
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| Subject: | Fiction. Historical Fiction. |
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Publishers Weekly Review
The Yellow Admiral
Publishers Weekly
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The 18th volume in the Aubrey/Maturin historical adventure series "is splendid storytelling from a true master," said PW in a starred review. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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BookList Review
The Yellow Admiral
Booklist
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In this intriguing sequel to his best-seller The Commodore, O'Brian once again reunites Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend, surgeon Stephen Maturin. As the novel opens, Maturin returns from the Continent on an intelligence mission to find Aubrey in trouble on several fronts. Now a member of Parliament, Aubrey is resented by former friends who have been disappointed with votes he has cast. Debts and a land squabble nag at him. But his worst difficulties concern a possible promotion. Past exploits have made him a sailor of note, but naval politics and the threat of imminent peace may work to make him a dreaded "yellowed" admiral: he'll hold the rank but won't actually command a ship. Meanwhile, he and Maturin are sent out to battle the French, at which point a new round of personal and professional troubles descends. Fans of O'Brian's previous novels will find themselves well rewarded. (Reviewed Sept. 15, 1996)0393040445Brian McCombie
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Library Journal Review
The Yellow Admiral
Library Journal
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In this sequel to The Commodore, Jack Aubrey gratefully leaves behind his messy life ashore to pursue Napoleon, who has escaped from Gibraltar. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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