Blue at the Mizzen (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Patrick Russ
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1815-1816
- Setting: The coast of Chile
- Principal Characters: Jack Aubrey, Dr. Stephen Maturin, Dr. Amos Jacob, Christine Wood, Bernardo O’Higgins, Sir David Lindsay, Horatio Fitzroy Hanson
- Genres: Long fiction, Sea story
- Subjects: Family or family life, Nineteenth century, Friendship, Ships, Sea or seafaring life, South America or South Americans, Napoleonic Wars, Tyrants or tyranny
- Locales: Chile
Blue at the Mizzen is the twentieth volume of Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series, a saga about life in England’s Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. The series opened in 1801 with Master and Commander (1969), in which Lt. Jack Aubrey is promoted to commander and given control of his first warship. Blue at the Mizzen brings Aubrey’s career to a new stage. At the beginning of the story, he is a senior post captain and skipper of the HMS Surprise; at the end he is promoted to admiral. The story picks up exactly where the previous volume, The...
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