Blue at the Mizzen
Aubrey/Maturin: Book #20
- By: Patrick O'Brian
- Narrated by: Patrick Tull
- Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Description
With his swashbuckling adventures, best-selling novelist Patrick O'Brian transports you to the high seas of old where privateers lurk in the mist, and great ships fight to control the waterways. Blue at the Mizzen hoists the excitement to new heights as British frigate commander Jack Aubrey stakes everything on a desperate raid against the mighty Spanish fleet. Ever since Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo, Captain Aubrey's prospects in the new peacetime navy have looked dim. Even worse, his frigate Surprise was badly damaged in a nighttime collision. While Aubrey waits for repairs, ship's doctor Stephen Maturin brings him intriguing information about the New World. Soon Aubrey is leading a bold expedition that will determine the fate of a rising South American nation - and his own. Critically-acclaimed author Patrick O'Brian blends authentic period atmosphere, rich humor, and elegant language in each of his seafaring yarns. You can almost hear the thunder of the waves and smell the salty sea air as you listen to Patrick Tull's dramatic performance.
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Aubrey/Maturin Series

Master and Commander
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 16 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
It is the dawn of the nineteenth century; Britain is at war with Napoleon's France. Jack Aubrey, a young lieutenant in Nelson's navy, is promoted to command of H.M.S. Sophie?, an old, slow brig unlikely to make his fortune. But Captain Aubrey is a brave and gifted seaman, his thirst for adventure and victory immense. With the aid of his friend... Read more »
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Post Captain
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 19 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The Peace of Amiens has left Aubrey with no ship, no enemy to pursue and no possibility of prize money to supplement his meager income. His decision to seek refuge from his troubles-and creditors-in France proves doubly disastrous. Read more »
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H.M.S. Surprise
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 15 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Third in the series of Aubrey-Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy enjoying overwhelming local superiority. But somewhere in the Indian... Read more »
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The Mauritius Command
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 13 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command - until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant, there to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La REunion. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded... Read more »
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Desolation Island
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length:
Abridged: No
Jack's prize money has set the household accounts aright, but if he continues frittering it on naive extravagances, it will be gone in a fortnight. Fortunately he gets a commission aboard the Leopard, bound for Australia to rescue the hated and captive Captain Bligh. Read more »
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Desolation Island
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 13 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Jack's prize money has set the household accounts aright, but if he continues frittering it on naive extravagances, it will be gone in a fortnight. Fortunately he gets a commission aboard the Leopard, bound for Australia to rescue the hated and captive Captain Bligh. Read more »
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The Fortune of War
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 13 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
En route home, Aubrey and Maturin find themselves in deep trouble when their ship engages the U.S.S. Constitution in battle-and loses. Aubrey, now a POW in Boston, waits for word of a prisoner exchange, while Maturin renews a most cherished friendship. Read more »
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The Surgeon's Mate
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attention of two privateers soon becomes menacing. The chase that follows through the fogs and... Read more »
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The Ionian Mission
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 15 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Shoved into a temporary command in "that rotten old Worcester," Aubrey is off to the Mediterranean to join the Royal Navy's blockade of the French port of Toulon, where he will be dispatched by Admiral Harte (unfortunately the same Admiral Harte he cuckolded years ago) on a secret mission that promises to embroil Aubrey in political conflict.... Read more »
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Treason's Harbour
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 12 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The espionage activities of cunning ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin have kept him at odds with the most important French agent in the Mediterranean, Lesueur-a man with a long memory and a taste for revenge. When that revenge takes the shape of the delicate and distracting Mrs. Fielding, who also attracts the ever-wandering eye of Jack Aubrey,... Read more »
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The Far Side of the World
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 14 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The South Seas are a paradise for battle-weary Captain Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin. But their peace is disturbed when Stephen's fancy for a peculiar marine organism lands him overboard. Acting in his usual headstrong fashion, Jack dives in to the rescue, unfortunately failing to plan what will happen once they are both in the... Read more »
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The Reverse of the Medal
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionage-the province of his friend Stephen Maturin. Is Aubrey's humiliation and the threatened ruin of his career a... Read more »
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The Letter of Marque
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 11 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Letter of Marque, Jack is once again aboard his beloved Surprise but stripped of his post captaincy for a crime he did not commit. Bought by Stephen, the Surprise has become a privateer. Sailing into French waters, the two concoct a desperate mission which, if successful, may redeem Aubrey from his state of disgrace. A nighttime battle... Read more »
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The Thirteen-Gun Salute
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin set sail aboard the Diane for the South China Sea, shepherding a diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes. If their mission fails, English merchant shipping in the area will be threatened. At the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang, the stage is set for a duel of intelligence... Read more »
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The Nutmeg of Consolation
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 12 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
When last seen, Jack and Stephen had been shipwrecked on a desert island in the glittering South China Sea. The Nutmeg of Consolation opens as the castaways fashion a makeshift vessel from the wreckage, only to have it destroyed in a fiery attack by Malay pirates. Only the wondrous ingenuity of Stephen, along with the unexpected appearance of... Read more »
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The Truelove
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the sandwich islands at French instigation, and Captain Aubrey, R. N., Is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away in the cable-tier is an escaped female convict. To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies. Aubrey... Read more »
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The Wine-Dark Sea
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Large in body and spirit, Jack Aubrey throws his heavy frame up main-masts as if he were a boy of ten. Tendentiously traditional, Aubrey spends his evenings with ship's surgeon, Stephen Maturin, a brilliant naturalist and occasional spy for the British government. In the quiet of Aubrey's cabin, the two work on their Corelli; after numerous... Read more »
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The Commodore
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
For years, critics have hailed Patrick OBrians seafaring adventure series as the best historical novels ever written (New York Times). With elegant language, eccentric characters, and authentic period atmosphere, the series transports you to the high seas of the Napoleonic era. After a dangerous tour of duty in the Great South Sea, Jack and... Read more »
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The Yellow Admiral
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O'Brian's best-selling novel and eighteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Aubrey, now a considerable though impoverished landowner, has dimmed his prospects at the Admiralty by his erratic voting as a Member of Parliament; he is feuding with his... Read more »
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The Hundred Days
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
For years, critics have celebrated best-selling author Patrick O'Brian's seafaring adventures for their magnificent blend of swashbuckling excitement and historical accuracy. With The Hundred Days, he transports you to the high seas of the Napoleonic era when the French demagogue is making a desperate attempt to control the European world. While... Read more »
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Blue at the Mizzen
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
With his swashbuckling adventures, best-selling novelist Patrick O'Brian transports you to the high seas of old where privateers lurk in the mist, and great ships fight to control the waterways. Blue at the Mizzen hoists the excitement to new heights as British frigate commander Jack Aubrey stakes everything on a desperate raid against the... Read more »
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21
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Blue at the Mizzen (novel #20) 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... Read more »
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