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Chapter 7 of Patrick O’Brian’s Desolation Island is some of the best writing and storytelling of all time. #AubreyMaturin
January 31, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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actually Stephen's looking at a really cool bug right behind him #aubreymaturin #masterandcommander #fanart
Jack and Stephen from Patrick O'Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin novels, just standing around pantsless I guess.
January 22, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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My escape for the next 10 days: a clever Catalan-Irish dr botanist spy; a courageous but buffoonish British naval captain; shady admirals; insipid or sexually aggressive Regency females; Napoleonic military aggression; & arcane 18th/19thC ship designs & warfare techniques. 📚🌊⚓ #OBrian #AubreyMaturin
January 20, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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This year I read Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series, all 20 books full of British naval intrigue and adventure and odd foods. (Spotted dog, anyone?) I finished yesterday. Retreating into the early 19th century helped me avoid doomscrolling my way through 2026. Strongly recommend. #aubreymaturin
December 31, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Der erste Band hat mich nicht so recht vom Hocker gehauen. Das ging alles so schnell, mehr wie eine Aneinanderreihung von Geschehnissen. - Aber was maritime Historien-Romane angeht, bin ich (wie man sieht) durch Patrick O‘Brians #AubreyMaturin- Reihe verdorben. 😇
#MasterandCommander #PatrickOBrian
December 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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The real Royal Navy officer who inspired Patrick O'Brian, well known author of the #MasterAndCommander
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December 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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The Fortune of War by British artist Geoff Hunt

This was the artwork used for the novel of the same title by Patrick O’Brian

#AubreyMaturin #RoyalNavy #Ageofsail
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Books I’ve finished recently - In recent weeks I’ve powered through three more of the #AubreyMaturin books… plus one very, very weird one from Kate Folk that I had to wait for months to get my hands on. Here are my review notes if you’re not on Go... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/88769
Books I’ve finished recently
In recent weeks I've powered through three more of the #AubreyMaturin books... plus one very, very weird one from Kate Folk that I had to wait for months to get my hands on. 😂✈️ Here are my review notes if you're not on Goodreads. The Mauritius Command (Aubrey & Maturin #4) by Patrick O'Bri
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November 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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I’ve asked a question on the #AubreyMaturin subreddit about “greasy Snooks”! www.reddit.com/r/AubreyMatu...
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October 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Give me joy, shipmates! The packet came in!

My previous circumnavigations have all been on audiobooks.

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A paperback set of books one through twenty of the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian.
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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I’ve been powering through Desolation Island, looking forward to Jack and company finally getting to Australia. I can’t decide if Stephen is the Greatest Spy Ever, or if he’s completely getting played by this American lady. Hmmmm… #AubreyMaturin
October 26, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Greasy Snooks! - Just finished #AubreyMaturin book 4, The Mauritius Command. I gave a scream of laughter when Captain Jack predicted his daughters’ future:

‘No, no. It is not the same thing at all. Now, thank God, they have portions; and so eventuall... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/87955
October 20, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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I’m up to book 4 of #AubreyMaturin and I’ve finally stopped looking up every nautical term. Now I just let them wash over me. 😂 But I really want to shake Lord Clonfert and tell him to listen to some Taylor Swift. Jack Aubrey is living rent free in his head, and it is *not* healthy.
October 18, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Look what I’ve just received from Tailorandarms! I’ve been utterly obsessed with the #AubreyMaturin books this year and the #LordRamage and #Hornblower books since I was a boy. Literally my dream fit 🤣🇬🇧
#reenacting #history #masterandcommander
September 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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It’s a book where someone had their fingernails pulled out, and a sloth got debauched, and there were vicious sea battles, and a surgeon performing surgery on themselves… and still, the moment I GASPED was when a man felt a ring in an envelope. 😭 #AubreyMaturin
September 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Stephen Maturin dentist extraordinaire
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He then looked at a Dromedary, distracted with toothache, decided that the tooth must come out, and sent for the drummer and two of the man's messmates to hold his head. 'Which we ain't got no drummer, sir,' said his loblolly boy. 'All the jollies was left at Malta.' 'Very true,' said Stephen. 'But a drum I must have.' He was not very good at drawing teeth and he liked his patient to be deafened, amazed, stupefied by a thundering in his ears. 'Has this ship never a drum for a fog?' 'No, sir,' said the Dromedary's messmates. 'We uses conchs and a musket.' 'Well,' said Stephen, 'that might answer too. Let it be so. My compliments to the gentleman in charge of the watch and may I have conchs and a musket. No. Stay. The galley must surely have cauldrons and kettles that could be beat.' But few messages are ever perfectly understood, few are delivered unimproved upon, and the tooth came out -came out at bloody last, piece by piece - to the howling of conchs, the fire of two muskets, and the metallic thunder of several copper pots. --Treason's Harbour
September 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Wait wait wait. Is Jack resting his injured foot in a BUCKET of SESAME OIL?! Does sesame oil have healing properties?? Because I’ve got a sore bum and a bottle in the pantry… 😂😂😂 #AubreyMaturin
September 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Jack Aubrey for @chechula.bsky.social
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September 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Colonel Ramón d'Ullastret and Don Esteban Maturin y Domanova
#aubreyad #aubreymaturin #masterandcommander #surgeonsmate #art #fanart
September 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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@annathepiper Yes, definitely the world-building feels a part of lots of good Star Trek writing.

An older essay on Reactor covers this ground too: https://reactormag.com/not-a-moment-to-be-lost-patrick-obrians-aubrey-maturin-series/

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"Not a moment to be lost": Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series - Reactor
On my way to MilPhil, the 2001 Worldcon in Philadelphia, I was re-reading The Fortune of War, Book 5 of Patrick O’Brian’s twenty volume Aubrey-Maturin series. On the bus in Newark taking me to the connecting plane, I saw a stranger reading Book 18, The Commodore. “Are you going to Worldcon?” I asked. She was. […]
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September 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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I didn’t expect this book would make me cry. (I got to the end of the chapter with Dil.) #AubreyMaturin 😢
September 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Whoa! No silliness or bear carcasses in this one—we’re straight into it with a daring rescue of tortured prisoners. 🫣 I need to pause and research the history of Minorca… #AubreyMaturin
September 2, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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LOL. Some rejected emo kids would be content with merely stalking their crush through her Instagram, but angst-ridden Dr. Stephen Maturin literally spends every cent to buy SPY REPORTS on his wannabe gf and her sugar daddy. 😂 #AubreyMaturin
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September 2, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Okay, that’s #PostCaptain finished! I was surprised to see on the Metafilter discussion that most folks think this is the worst one. I loved it! So different from the first. And how can it be that no one on Ravelry has yet designed Stephen Maturin’s rational wool one-piece garment? 😂 #AubreyMaturin
August 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Bwahahahahaha 🐝 #AubreyMaturin
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August 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM