Patrick O'Brian

This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, Royal Navy, and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent....

At the opening of his third novel in an ongoing adventure series by Patrick O'Brian, Jack Aubrey is cruising off Cape Sicie when his friend Stephen Maturin....

The Peace of Amiens has left Jack Aubrey with no ship, no enemy to pursue, and no possibility of prize money to supplement his meager income....

The H.M.S. Leopard pulled into the bay of Pulo Batang looking more like a shabby merchant ship that a man-of-war....

Jack's prize money has set the household accounts aright, but if he continues frittering it on naive extravagances, it will be gone in a fortnight....

When last seen, Jack and Stephen had been shipwrecked on a desert island in the glittering South China Sea....

Lucky Jack Aubrey escapes the burdens of domesticity when he is appointed to the post of Admiral....

After a dangerous tour of duty in the Great South Sea, Jack and Stephen finally return to their families in England....

Jack Aubrey, Post Captain in the British Royal Navy, is suffused with happiness....

The South Seas are a paradise for battle-weary Captain Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin....

The espionage activities of cunning ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin have kept him at odds with the most important French agent in the Mediterranean....

A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the Friendly Isles, and Captain Jack Aubrey is dispatched to restore order....

While surviving life-threatening adventures at sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin find life on land to be even more perilous....

Large in body and spirit, Jack Aubrey throws his heavy frame up mainmasts as if he were a boy of ten....

The first novel Patrick O'Brian ever wrote about the sea, a precursor to the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series.

Patrick O'Brian transports you to the high seas of the Napoleonic era when the French demagogue is making a desperate attempt to control the European world....

The legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of HMS Endurance....

Ever since Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo, Captain Aubrey's prospects in the new peacetime navy have looked dim....

Jack is once again aboard his beloved Surprise but stripped of his post captaincy for a crime he did not commit....

Jack Aubrey is back in London after a successful mission....