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The Yellow Admiral (Audio CD)

by Patrick O'Brian (Author), Simon Vance (Narrator)
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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 amount ashore, his prospects of admiralty dimmed and Sophie's affection waning. At sea, he fares little better: in the storms off Brest he captures a French privateer ladden with gold and ivory at the expense of missing a signal and deserting his post. And worst of all, in the spring of 1814, peace breaks out...

Fortunately, Maturin returns from a mission in Chile with news that may help restore Aubrey to good favor with both his beloved navy and wife. Then, off to Gibraltar: Napoleon has escaped from Elba.

The Yellow Admiral is a change of pace, a reversion to the themes of the earlier novels in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Much of the story takes place on land, giving scope to O'Brian's fascination with the landscape, physical and social, of early nineteenth-century England. In vivid glimpses of various rural pursuits, and nuanced observation of politics and domestic arrangements, O'Brian proves himself ever more surely to be the heir of Jane Austen. Not to say there aren't some rousing and bloody sea-battles! --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.



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As befits a popular and enduring fictional hero, Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy is besieged on all sides in the 18th installment of O'Brian's splendid 19th-century historical adventure series (The Commodore, etc.). Jack is fighting expensive, possibly ruinous, legal battles with slavers, as well as with rich landowners trying to enclose common lands around his family estate. He must also deal with a Navy superior with a financial interest in the enclosure, who is trying to wreck Jack's career. (If a captain becomes an admiral without a command he is "in the cant phrase... yellowed"). Jack, on blockade duty off Brittany, frets that the impending peace will indeed yellow him; and he's also in for some rough marital weather with his wife, Sophie. Meanwhile, the series' other hero, Irish-Catalan physician Stephen Maturin, who's Jack's best friend, connects in "the dark of the moon" with Chilean independence leaders who may hire Jack to head their own young navy. O'Brian is at the top of his elegant form here. He offers a wealth of sly humor (Navy officers' talk is "really not fit for mixed company because of its profoundly nautical character"), some splendid set pieces (a bare-knuckle boxing match, lively sea actions), characters who are palpably real and, as always, lapidary prose. This is splendid storytelling from a true master. Major ad/promo.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Is this the end?, Nov 28 2000
By grafmax (New York, New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Yellow Admiral. (Hardcover)
I have enjoyed this series immensely, and I would recommend it to anyone interested in historical novels with excellent character development. O'Brien is a super writer.

Unfortunately, like Dr. Mautrin, I have developed my own addiction -- these novels. Therefore, I would like to know: Is this the end?

P/ e-mail if you have any insights or information. Thank you.

GRAFMAX

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3.0 out of 5 stars OK, so it's a mistake to jump in at the end of the series, Dec 3 1999
By Doug Vaughn (Washington, Dc USA) - See all my reviews
My mistake. This is the first of Patrick O'Brien's series that I have read. I found it slow and somewhat puzzling. Friends who have read the other books assure me that I should have started with the first and worked my way up. OK, I'm sorry. But I really think that any series of books, in order to be truely successful, must be built of volumns that can stand alone. Certainly any of Bernard Cornwell's Richard Sharpe series contains enough exposition and general background material that a reader is not required to have read all the other books in order to enjoy it. I'm not sure the same is true here. I enjoyed a lot of things about this book, so will probably go back and try one of he earlier ones, but that is only because people assure me that they are better.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Not a pleasant experience, Jul 14 1999
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This review is from: The Yellow Admiral. (Hardcover)
While a more than adequate insight into everyday life in the England of George III, this book serves the uninitiated reader of O'Brian's work poorly. Nothing much takes place during the story, and what little as does, takes place offstage, as it were. Characters and events are introduced that lead no where and serve no purpose other than to fill the page. While the real world is often like that, works of art are not the real world, and novels are not documentaries. I was grossly disappointed in this book, as I had read such wonderful things about this series, and I will give O'Brian another chance, but I did not find any charcters other than Aubrey and Maturin to be given any definition, and their characters were more described than shown. Reading The Yellow Admiral (a pretentious title providing no insight into the plot nor encouragement to the reader) was not a pleasant experience.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Painfully disappointing
I am an absolute devotee of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series. I have read all of them at least three times each. But "The Yellow Admiral" appalled me. Read more
Published on Oct 15 1998 by jomcgowan@yahoo.com

5.0 out of 5 stars Vintage O'Brian: as good as books get,.
The Yellow Admiral is as good as any of the previous 17 Aubrey/Maturin novels: as good as novels get. Read more
Published on Jul 16 1998 by Doug Briggs

4.0 out of 5 stars Wait! Wait!
If you have become an Aubrey/Maturin reader, and really like them, save this one for last. It's the last in the series and you need all the history of the previous 17 to... Read more
Published on Jun 27 1998 by David Bereznai

2.0 out of 5 stars O'Brian is running out of steam. So what?
There is an awful lot of recycling going on in this book. The research is still prodigious, but I suspect at this point O'Brian has the topography and culture of early 19th... Read more
Published on Dec 5 1997

3.0 out of 5 stars If you got this far in the series, why stop now?
Aubrey & Maturin will always be worth reading, but this series is definitely getting tired. After the first three or four books, O'Brian started struggling and this novel... Read more
Published on Sep 3 1997

3.0 out of 5 stars If you got this far in the series, why stop now?
Aubrey & Maturin will always be worth reading, but this series is definitely getting tired. After the first three or four books, O'Brian started struggling and this novel... Read more
Published on Sep 3 1997 by rpe01@aol.com

3.0 out of 5 stars Not the best, but more to come
O'Brian is never dull, of course, but this installment is too didactic for me. Where before Maturin's naivete is a natural cue for exploration of many topics, here it's just too... Read more
Published on Aug 2 1997

4.0 out of 5 stars Rivetting, yet the "happy ending" must come next book
In typical O'Brian fashion, the current state of our heroes is reversed in this book. Here we find Aubrey on the downgrade, while Maturin is repairing the damage done him in the... Read more
Published on Jan 20 1997

4.0 out of 5 stars A must for the series reader, but not the most exciting.....
Not the most action packed of the novels, however, the storyline and history are as always fun to follow...
Published on Jan 4 1997

4.0 out of 5 stars O'Brian's cruising here, but still very enjoyable.
This is another "land-based" book in the series, which is a good thing. Jack Aubry's troubles dealing with land lubbers (whose dishonesty and unstructured ways mystify... Read more
Published on Jan 4 1997

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