The Ionian Mission, (1981) is a historical novel by naval author Patrick O'Brian in the continuing series about Jack Aubrey and sea surgeon and friend Stephen Maturin.
The book opens with Jack, Pullings and Mowett aboard HMS Worcester waiting for Stephen to embark, but Stephen is late because Diana had thrown a party and then the carriage that Jagiello had been driving Stephen in wrecks. Finally Stephen arrives in time and they set sail for the M...
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The Ionian Mission, (1981) is a historical novel by naval author Patrick O'Brian in the continuing series about Jack Aubrey and sea surgeon and friend Stephen Maturin.
The book opens with Jack, Pullings and Mowett aboard HMS Worcester waiting for Stephen to embark, but Stephen is late because Diana had thrown a party and then the carriage that Jagiello had been driving Stephen in wrecks. Finally Stephen arrives in time and they set sail for the Mediterranean.
The Worcester joins the blockade off Toulon under the command of Admiral Thornton (an admiral of the white). The ship soon settles into the blockade routine, with some of the crew improvising a choir and the midshipmen's berth acting out Hamlet. The only trouble is when Jack has a run-in with his drunken aristocratic third lieutenant, Somers, for missing stays and has him transferred to another ship. Stephen, in the meantime, befriends Mr Martin, an impoverished parson and fellow bird lover, before he joins the Berwick. Stephen,...
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