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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 1
Aubrey-Maturin volume 1
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 1
Aubrey and Maturin
Aubrey-Maturin volume 1
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 1
Aubrey and Maturin
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This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind...
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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 4
Aubrey and Maturin volume 4
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 4
Aubrey and Maturin volume 4
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 4
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Captain Jack Aubrey, given secret orders to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Reunion, finds his mission endangered by the behavior of two of his crew members.
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Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and shipmate Dr. Stephen Maturin head for Australia with a hold full of convicts on a mission to rescue Governor Bligh of "Bounty" fame, but they must first deal with a deadly disease that decimates the crew, and the threat of a Dutch man-of-war.
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Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and fearless captain in Nelson's navy, accepts a mission that will test his abilities to the limit: he is to set sail immediately for Cape Horn, to intercept a powerful frigate intent on wreaking havoc among British whalers. Aubrey's beloved ship, HMS Surprise, is up to the task, but many of her sailors are untried. Aubrey's confidant, ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, has orders of his own in the world of secret intelligence....
7) Post captain
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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 2
Aubrey and Maturin volume 2
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 2
Aubrey and Maturin volume 2
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 2
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Captain Jack Aubrey, hiding out in France from his creditors, is forced to run for his life when Napoleon goes to war again in 1803.
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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 3
Aubrey and Maturin volume 3
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 3
Aubrey and Maturin volume 3
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 3
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Captain Jack Aubrey accepts a commission to convey a British ambassador to the East Indies. The voyage takes him and his friend Stephen Maturin to the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and through the spice islands where the French have a near-overwhelming local superiority.
12) The truelove
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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 15
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 15
Aubrey and Maturin volume 15
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 15
Aubrey and Maturin volume 15
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Captain Jack Aubrey, dispatched with the "Surprise" to restore order in the Sandwich Islands where a British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief, must first deal with the chaos that erupts on his own ship when it is discovered one of the mates has smuggled aboard a prostitute.
14) The commodore
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First sent on a decoy mission to the Gulf of Guinea, Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent are tested at their true destination, Ireland, where the French are mounting an invasion.
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Jack Aubrey fears for his career as his hopes of achieving the rank of admiral dim in the face of peace, but he is offered a reprieve when Stephen Maturin brings news that the Chileans are seeking English officers to lead their navy and then he receives notice that Napoleon has escaped from Elba.
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