Maturin receives news from his intelligence-chief in London, Sir Joseph Blaine, confirming high level infiltration of British intelligence by the French. Aubrey dines with Laura Fielding and her husband, Lieutenant Fielding, who is now satisfied that his wife is true to him and thanks Aubrey for bringing her from Malta to Gibraltar (though it is Maturin who brought her to the ship, saving her from two assassins). The admiral is now a peer, his deepest wish, and he is a happy man. Mr Yarrow will rephrase it to make the success clearer to the Admiralty. O'Brian "writes historical novels without the swashbuckling." Plot summary Īubrey meets Admiral Ives, now in Gibraltar, who is pleased with the last mission of HMS Surprise, despite Aubrey's negative report.
One review considered this and the previous novel, Treason's Harbour, to be one novel in two volumes. The Pacific Ocean is full of wonders, and prizes, once the Jonah is off the ship.
Unaware, he sends the letter to his own wife explaining his protection of the Navy wife via that very villain. Dr Maturin has not yet identified the high-level spy who got away. In Gibraltar, Captain Aubrey receives another mission, to sail HMS Surprise to protect British whalers in the Pacific Ocean from USS Norfolk, for his first voyage around Cape Horn. The story from Treason's Harbour has several points resolved, as to the success of Maturin's work identifying the French spies, the trap that Aubrey sailed out of but HMS Pollux did not, and Aubrey resolving the tension between him and Lieutenant Fielding, who escaped the worst French prisoner-of-war facility. The story is set during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The Far Side of the World is the tenth historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1984. Print (hardback and paperback) & Audio Book ( Cassette, CD)
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