![]() ![]() In the Atlantic, Surprise retakes the packet Danaë, with Lieutenant Lawrence in command. Maturin will not interfere with the pregnancy, so she turns to his assistant, Higgins, who leaves her near death. Mrs Horner, the gunner's wife, engages in an affair with Hollom, and becomes pregnant. During the repairs in Penedo, Pullings sees the USS Norfolk pass by. The Surprise sails to the farthest east point of Brazil, where the bowsprit is burnt by lightning. Aubrey wonders if his kindness takes aboard a Jonah with Hollom. He recruits Mr Allen, a new master with an in-depth knowledge of whalers, takes on Mr Martin as schoolmaster to the midshipmen, and Mr Hollom, an ageing midshipman. Aubrey makes all haste to prepare his ship with men and supplies. Surprise is not yet to be broken up Admiral Ives sends Aubrey on a mission to protect British whalers in the Pacific Ocean from the frigate USS Norfolk, sailing on HMS Surprise on his first voyage around Cape Horn. Maturin learns of his success in Malta, destroying the French intelligence network based there, all but André Lesueur taken. He sends her a letter via Andrew Wray, unsuspecting of Wray's role as a French agent. Maturin's wife Diana has heard rumours of his pretended infidelity in Valletta, Malta, with Mrs Fielding for intelligence reasons. Maturin receives news from his intelligence-chief in London, Sir Joseph Blaine, confirming high level infiltration of British intelligence by the French. Aubrey dines with Laura Fielding and her husband, Lieutenant Fielding, who is now satisfied that his wife is true to him and thanks Aubrey for bringing her from Malta to Gibraltar (though it is Maturin who brought her to the ship, saving her from two assassins). The admiral is now a peer, his deepest wish, and he is a happy man. Mr Yarrow will rephrase it to make the success clearer to the Admiralty. O'Brian "writes historical novels without the swashbuckling." Plot summary Īubrey meets Admiral Ives, now in Gibraltar, who is pleased with the last mission of HMS Surprise, despite Aubrey's negative report. One review considered this and the previous novel, Treason's Harbour, to be one novel in two volumes. The Pacific Ocean is full of wonders, and prizes, once the Jonah is off the ship. Unaware, he sends the letter to his own wife explaining his protection of the Navy wife via that very villain. Dr Maturin has not yet identified the high-level spy who got away. ![]() In Gibraltar, Captain Aubrey receives another mission, to sail HMS Surprise to protect British whalers in the Pacific Ocean from USS Norfolk, for his first voyage around Cape Horn. The story from Treason's Harbour has several points resolved, as to the success of Maturin's work identifying the French spies, the trap that Aubrey sailed out of but HMS Pollux did not, and Aubrey resolving the tension between him and Lieutenant Fielding, who escaped the worst French prisoner-of-war facility. The story is set during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. ![]() The Far Side of the World is the tenth historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1984. Print (hardback and paperback) & Audio Book ( Cassette, CD) ![]()
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