The Yellow Admiral

Author: Patrick O’Brian
Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O’Brian’s best-selling novel and eighteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Aubrey, now a considerable though impoverished landowner, has dimmed his prospects at the Admiralty by his erratic voting as a Member of Parliament; he is feuding with his neighbor, a man with strong Navy c….Read More
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