Post Captain
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10110
ISBN: 0-393-30706-9
© Patrick O'Brian 1972
The second novel in Patrick O'Brian's popular series of
adventures involving Captain Jack Aubrey and
Doctor Stephen Maturin finds the pair
dealing with the onset of war in 1803 after the breaking of
the Peace of Amiens. Eager to return to the fight, Aubrey escapes
from France to return to Britain, only to be faced with the
prospect of years served in debtors' prison at the hands of his
creditors and their agents. Meanwhile, Maturin must negotiate the
more daunting rocks and shoals of love and romance without
endangering his friendship with Aubrey.