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Original Title:	Blue at the Mizzen
ISBN:	039332107X (ISBN13: 9780393321074)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Aubrey & Maturin #20
Characters:	Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin

Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey & Maturin #20)

Patrick O'Brian

Paperback | Pages: 262 pages

Rating: 4.38 | 6223 Users | 272 Reviews

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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.

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Title	:	Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey & Maturin #20)
Author	:	Patrick O'Brian
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 262 pages
Published	:	September 17th 2000 by W. W. Norton Company (first published 1999)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Adventure

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Well, I finally finished the series, all but the last book left uncompleted when O'Brian died--but I'm reading that next! A lot of folks seem disappointed in this book because "nothing happens" until the end. Um, how is that different than a lot of the rest of the series, and also, how did you not find that "nothing" interesting when it deals with the end of the war and how that has effected the very people we've been following for nineteen other whole books? Besides the greatest bromance in the

"Admiral, dear."Although not action packed, the story still had naval actions and the voyage, with the Surprise stuck in the doldrums and among the ice in the Straight of Magellan was just as entertaining as ever. The friendship of the two main characters, and their conversations together just as fulfilling. No matter where they are or what they are doing, it has been a privilege listening to Simon Vance narrate their stories.

As a whole, this is now my favorite book series in any genre.

Another great book in the fantastic series by Patrick O'Brian. It's worth mentioning that this is actually the last book in the series. I did not know this when I read it. I was fooled by seeing in all the book lists that there is also a book 21, with the subtitle "The Final Unfinished Voyage of Captain Jack Aubrey", after this one. So I bowled on ahead, thinking that the last book would end with perhaps the death of the main character, or his sudden retirement or something. Instead it turns out

2 stars seems too harsh, yet 3 is too generous. :/This is the first Aubrey/Maturin book that had me wondering just WTFing point was. Naval action doesn't appear until 85% of the way into it, and that coincides with the vague mission actually taking center stage in the story.The vast majority of it is the little details that O'Brian does so well in other stories, but it simply wasn't enough this time around to carry the whole piece. Stephen puts his heart on the line and gets it stomped on (will

This is another excellent historical novel by Patrick O'Brian, in the Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin series. In this story, Aubrey starts to feel passed over, as other, less experienced captains are promoted to the rank of admiral. Meanwhile, naturalist and surgeon Maturin falls in love with a beautiful widow.This is peacetime now, and the opportunities for sea action are scarce. Nevertheless, The Surprise and her crew get a chance to show their stuff, although the action does not take very much

So here ends the Aubrey-Maturin epic saga, though a further book was left incomplete at the time of O'Brian's death. It's a good thing, really. The struggle to find anything original for the pair to do, growing ever more difficult since as far back as book 10, had by this point proved impossible. With the Napoleonic Wars over, reasons for further voyages were also getting contrived. Maturin's drug abuse with no real consequence was getting a little preposterous. Hence ending on the upbeat note