The Ionian Mission: (Book 8) (Aubrey/Maturin Series) (Hardcover)
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Aubrey and Maturin return to the choppy Mediterranean waters where they first served together, enforcing the Royal Navy’s blockade of Toulon. Then the two companions are sent to the Greek Islands, where another series of maritime cliff-hangers awaits them. O’Brian performs his peculiar narrative magic as adeptly as ever, putting (as The Observer would have it) the “spark of character into the sawdust of time.”
–This text refers to the
Paperback
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From Publishers Weekly
This entry in the Aubrey/Maturin series (see above review of The Surgeon’s Mate ) finds Captain Jack Aubrey “shoved into a temporary command in that rotten old Worcester ,” a poorly built ship. Worse, he’s off to the Mediterranean to join the Royal Navy’s endless blockade of the French port of Toulon. Aside from a chance encounter with a French man-of-war that triggers a brief but extremely colorful battle, there is little excitement as HMS Worcester settles in with (more…)
3.0 out of 5 stars
Port-bound; least interesting in the series so far
The least interesting of the Master and Commander series so far. This installment spends too much time in port, literally, as Captain Jack and Stephen Maturin are on blockade…
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Ionian Mission (Aubrey Maturin Series)
Husband loves this guy and is too busy reading to write a review. I think he is now on the 7th or 8th of the series
3.0 out of 5 stars
worst one yet
I’ve read all his books up to this one. All are good, but this is the worst.
4.0 out of 5 stars
a standard pleasure
Needing a reliable book for a long flight, I turned to a random O’Brian work. They never disappoint, and The Ionian Mission was true to form.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Intrigue and action
As usual a wonderful insight into life in more trying times at its most colourful. Great characters, storyline and action, although a rather abrupt confusion.
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Sinking Ship (and Book)
THE IONIAN MISSION, the eighth novel in the “Aubrey/Maturin Series,” is not a stand-alone book by any means. The revelation of Dr.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Master and Commander series by Patrick O’Brien
I thoroughly enjoyed the entire series of books, I just wish the author had had time to write more of them.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Another solid entry into this wonderful series
“The Ionian Mission” is the eighth book in Patrick O’Brian’s colossal Aubrey-Maturin series, and it is a solid entry . . .
4.0 out of 5 stars
Blockade Tension and Byzantine Intrigue
Patrick O’Brian’s “The Ionian Mission” is a solid entry in the Aubrey/Maturin novels- it could be read as a stand alone, but I do not recommend that.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Still giggling….
I admit, I picked up Master and Commander after seeing Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany play Aubrey and Maturin in the movie, so my entire experience of reading these has been…