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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... read more
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Characters edit
- Jack Aubrey: Add a description of this character.
- Stephen Maturin
- Diana
- Sophie
- Joseph Blaine
- Mr Harding
- Griffiths
- Goulet
- George
- Mrs Broad
- Brigid
- Stranraer
- Mama
- Bonden
- Killick
- Clarissa Oakes
- Mr Geoghegan
- Dundas
- Ilona
- Fanshawe
- Captain Aubrey
- Woolcombe
- Mr Sherman
- Evans
- Philip
- Sherman
- Yann
- Bernard
- Aboukir
- Reade
- Mr Wetherby
- Heneage
- Smith
- Mr Walkinshaw
- Mrs Pearce
- Mrs Williams
- Needham
- Miller
- Callaghan
First Sentence edit
Sir Joseph Blaine, a heavy, yellow-faced man in a suit of grey clothes and a flannel waistcoat, walked down St Jams's Street, across the park, and so to the Admiralty, which he entered from behind, opening the private door with a key and making his way to the large, shabby room in which he had his official being.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 18 of 21 in Aubrey-Maturin. (standard series)
Preceded by The Commodore, and followed by The Hundred Days.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Patrick O'Brian (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Country: USA
Publication Date: October 17, 1996
ISBN: 0-393-04044-5
Page Count: 272
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Country: USA
Publication Date: October 17, 1996
ISBN: 0-393-04044-5
Page Count: 272
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 828'.914
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