The Ionian Mission, Patrick OBrian
The Ionian Mission, Patrick OBrian
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The Ionian Mission

Author: Patrick O'Brian

Narrator: Tim Pigott-Smith

Abridged: 5 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/05/2000


Synopsis

The 8th installment in the Aubrey/Maturin Series.

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now senior captain commanding a line-of-battleship in the Royal Navy's blockage of toulon, and this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing frigate action of his early days. A sudden turn of events takes him and Stephen off on a hazardous mission to the Greek Islands, where all his old skills of seamanship and his proverbial luck when fighting against all odds come triumphantly into their own.

About The Author

Patrick O’Brian’s many novels include Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, and The Unknown Shore, in addition to twenty volumes in the highly respected Aubrey/Maturin series. O’Brian wrote acclaimed biographies of Pablo Picasso and Sir Joseph Banks and translated many works from the French, among them the novels and memoirs of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Lacouture’s biography of Charles de Gaulle. Mr. O’Brian died in January 2000.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Katherine on January 20, 2021

Another reread, these books just flow, one to the next, and reading them is soothing, not because any one book reaches new literary heights, but because the quality of the writing is so high and so consistent, because the characters are familiar enough to feel like friends. An absolute go-to when I......more

Goodreads review by Ken-ichi on May 27, 2008

Seriously, these books are like crack. Some choice terms and quotes (defs mostly from King's invaluable A Sea of Words): Words fearnaught screen: thick felt used to cover hatches during battle. felucca (n): a small Spanish sailing vessel, but also a kind of fishing boat formerly used in the SF Bay Are......more

Goodreads review by Terry on December 09, 2019

Having lately read six books in the Aubrey-Maturin series in a row I can compare it to nothing so much as binge-watching a really good TV series on Netflix. That being said this volume is perhaps the weakest I’ve read thus far (not counting book one which was a real stumbling block for me way back w......more

Goodreads review by Clemens on December 18, 2021

Read this book in 2008, and its the 8th marvellous volume of the delightful "Aubrey/Maturin" series. In this tale Aubrey and Maturin, veterans of many battles, find themselves at first in the Mediterranean, at the blockade of Toulon, with Jack Aubrey now as a Senior Captain commanding a line-of-battl......more

Goodreads review by Karl on April 25, 2024

Captain Aubrey and Doctor Maturin are as delightful as ever, with Aubrey's unmatched skills as a seaman and naval warrior, and Maturin's efforts as a spy, fishing for French officers tired of Napoleon. Rich with humor and the details of 1800 British Naval life and war, every book in this series is a......more