Blue at the Mizzen (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393048445)

Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a peacetime navy. When the Surprise is nearly sunk on her way to South America--where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain--the delay occasioned by repairs reaps a harvest of strange consequences.

The South American expedition is a desperate affair; and in the end Jack's bold initiative to strike at the vastly superior Spanish fleet precipitates a spectacular naval action that will determine both Chile's fate and his own.

Author: Patrick O'Brian
ISBN-10: 0393048446
ISBN-13: 9780393048445
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 11/17/1999
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.81w x 1.08d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/1999 pg. 88
Ingram Advance 10/01/1999 pg. 22
Booklist 10/01/1999 pg. 308
Publishers Weekly 10/11/1999 pg. 55
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/1999 pg. 1605
New Yorker (The) 11/08/1999 pg. 92
Library Journal 11/01/1999 pg. 124
New York Times 12/05/1999 pg. 30
Library Journal 06/01/1999