21: The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey

The final, partial installment of the Aubrey/Maturin series in a beautiful new package.

Patrick O'Brian's Blue at the Mizzen-novel #20 in the widely celebrated Aubrey/Maturin series-ended with Jack Aubrey getting the news, in Chile, of his elevation to flag rank: rear admiral of the Blue Squadron, with orders to sail to the South Africa station. The next novel, unfinished and untitled at the time of the author's death, would have been the chronicle of that mission, and much else besides. The...