The 'wine-dark sea' of the title is the Great South Sea, and Jack Aubrey and the crew of the Surprise are pursuing an American privateer. They are beset not only by the eruption of a volcano which takes innumerable lives, but by revol...

Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, but the ensuing peace becomes ugly for Captain Jack Aubrey, with violent celebrations of the English sailors in Gibraltar and the desertion of nearly half his crew. To cap it all off, the Surpri...

The action ranges from the long and frustrating blockage of the Toulon harbor to a dangerous mission to Greece. Captain Jack Aubrey's seamanship is sorely tested, but his friendship with Stephen Maturin--whose ramblings in natural his...

The seventeenth Aubrey-Maturin novel. Jack Aubrey's long service is at last rewarded: he is promoted to the rank of Commodore and given a squadron of ships to command. His mission is twofold -- to make a large dent in the slave trade...

Ashore between cruises, Captain Jack Aubrey is persuaded to sink some money into an investment scheme. Soon this innocent decision enmeshes him in various criminal and even treasonous enterprises, which threaten to destroy his entire ...

At last! Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are back as Patrick O'Brian provides his indomitably loyal fans with another adventure, this one by land as well as by sea. Lucky Jack Aubrey finds himself not so lucky as his troubles amoun...

The 14th novel in O'Brian's highly acclaimed series, the Aubrey/Maturin novels, about a captain in the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon during the Napoleonic Wars. In this installment, Jack and Stephen must deal with not only a tribe...

Captain Jack Aubrey is sailing the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts and a Dutch man-of-war to windward. Undermanned and outgunned, the Leopard sails for her life into the freezing Antarctic, where, in mountainous seas...

In response to the interest of millions of O'Brian fans, here is the final, partial installment of the Aubrey/Maturin series--the proposed follow-up to 'Blue at the Mizzen.' These are the three chapters left on O'Brian's desk at the t...

The War of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. Stephen Maturin has orders of ...

When Napoleon escapes from Elba, the fate of Europe hinges on a desperate mission: Stephen Maturin must ferret out the French dictator's secret link to the powers of Islam, and Jack Aubrey must destroy it. Napoleon, like a vengeful ph...