The Yellow Admiral (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the title of The Yellow Admiral 3 weeks ago.

Timothy Gray changed the title of The Yellow Admiral 3 weeks ago.

Timothy Gray edited the series of The Yellow Admiral 3 weeks ago.

• Edited this book in the series: Aubrey-Maturin seriesAubrey-Maturin book 18

Colette M edited the series of The Yellow Admiral Monday, November 23 2009.

• Added this book in the series: Aubrey-Maturin series book 18 (Primary series)

Shelfari edited the description of The Yellow Admiral Friday, July 31 2009.

• 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Yellow Admiral Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Patrick O'Brian:

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Yellow Admiral Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: Patrick O'Brian: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Yellow Admiral Thursday, July 16 2009.

• 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.