The Yellow Admiral Hardcover - 1996
by Patrick O'Brian
Set in brilliant counterpoint to the fall and rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, the latest high-seas adventure by the bestselling author of The Commodore chronicles the fall and rise of Captain Jack Aubrey of the British Royal Navy. Now a considerable though impoverished landowner, Aubrey has dimmed his prospects at the Admiralty by his erratic voting in Parliament. Worse yet, in the spring of 1814, peace breaks out.
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Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's long-awaited sequel to his bestseller The Commodore. 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 fear about his career: the prospect of being "yellowed", or nominally promoted to the rank of admiral without any squadron to command. 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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- Title The Yellow Admiral
- Author Patrick O'Brian
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
- Date 1996
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780393040449 / 0393040445
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 8.51 x 5.9 x 1.05 in (21.62 x 14.99 x 2.67 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Cultural Region: British
- Cultural Region: Mediterranean
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Sea stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96024149
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 09/15/1996, Page 222
- Kirkus Reviews, 09/01/1996, Page 1261
- Library Journal, 06/15/1996, Page 0
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 06/15/1996, Page 50
- New York Times, 11/03/1996, Page 9
- NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 01/01/1996, Page 84
- Publishers Weekly, 09/16/1996, Page 70
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