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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Blue at the Mizzen (novel) FACTOID # 70: In pure number terms, more crimes are committed in America than in any other nation. Blue at the Mizzen (1999) is a novel by Patrick O'Brian, the twentieth (and final) book in the Aubrey–Maturin series. The novel is experimental in that it is not a tale of identifying the killers—they have openly announced their intentions—but is instead a description of how and why the bystanders and participants handle their parts in the crime. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Blue-at-the-Mizzen-%28novel%29   (193 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Blue at the Mizzen: Books: Patrick O'Brian Blue at the Mizzen is a treat for lovers of O'Brian and a perfect introduction for those who have not yet read him. Blue at the Mizzen also brings alive the sights and sounds of revolutionary South America in a story as exciting as any O'Brian has written. In "Blue at the Mizzen" O'Brian has continued to do what he started to do at the beginning of his series. www.amazon.co.uk /Blue-at-Mizzen-Patrick-OBrian/dp/0006513786   (1674 words)

Blue at the Mizzen, by Patrick O'Brian In BATM, I think that POB is simplifying the system when he writes that seaman Anderson received a 1/157 half share. BATM: Jack expects to repair the damaged Surprise and recruit seamen for his depleted crew at Madeira. At the very end of BATM, Stephen is sitting on the gray pebbles of an island, and his attention is seized "by a very noble sight--two fl-necked swans flying steadily south, low over the water.." One wonders if this is a harbinger that there is hope for Stephen and Christine to wed in the future. jfinnera.www1.50megs.com /Blue.htm   (5974 words)

First Editions. Blue at the Mizzen is the twentieth book of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series and the last book he published. With the appearance of Blue at the Mizzen was planned a special slipped cased limited, signed edition of 250 books but this special edition book was delivered very late which may have been due to O'Brian's ill health. To summarize, the W. Norton publication of Blue at the Mizzen with a wraparound dustcover and no printing line is the first edition for Blue at the Mizzen. www.sea-room.com /first_editions.html   (1197 words)

United Kingdom: ensigns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) The colonial blue ensign, defaced with a modified version of the state arms on a disc was official for all purposes at sea. Blue canton on which there is a representation of the southern cross on white. Blue and white ensigns respectively, the white ensign being minus the St. George's cross. www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/gb-ensig.html   (1657 words)

Amanda Foreman article for The New York Times "Blue at the Mizzen," the 20th volume of Patrick 0' Brian's saga of heroism and friendship on the high seas, is a welcome return to form. "Blue at the Mizzen" is an intricate, multifaceted work, one of those rare novels that actually bear up under close scrutiny. In a sense the heroes have clearly reached their destinations, and there is a psychological completeness to the novel even though the plot is inconclusive. www.amanda-foreman.com /new-york-times2.shtml   (1208 words)

Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey/Maturin Series): Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) But for readers unacquainted with the series, Blue at the Mizzen would not be the best way to be introduced to O'Brian and his seaworthy heroes; one needs the background of the previous volumes to connect with all the characters. Blue at the Mizzen is an intricate, multifaceted work--one of those rare novels that actually bear up under close scrutiny. Blue at the Mizzen is a worthy end to the series. www.worldwar1.co.uk /books-plain/0393048446.html   (4902 words)

Aubrey-Maturin series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Blue Ensign, Red Ensign, or White Ensign indicated an admiral's rank and squadron assignment, and they were formally referred to as "Rear Admiral of the Red" or "Vice Admiral of the White". These three "squadrons" existed for administrative purposes, and should not be confused with physical squadrons, that is a group of ships commanded as a unit, but smaller than a fleet. A blue ensign at the mizzen-mast was the flag of the Rear Admiral of the Blue, the lowest flag rank in the Royal Navy of the early 19th century. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blue_at_the_Mizzen_(novel)   (4105 words)

Billy Blue School of Graphic Arts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Billy Blue’s real name is unknown but he’s thought to have been given the name we know him by today because he had three small rowing boats. The Blue fleet was under the command of Sir William Cornwallis who always flew a long blue pennant from the mizzen mast on his flag ship. Billy Blue, the man, first came to public notice before the London courts in the late 1700's and arrived in Sydney as a convict in 1801. www.billyblue.com.au /graphics/about.html   (802 words)

The Thirteen Gun Salute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Blue at the Mizzen (novel #20) ended with Aubrey's orders to sail to the South Africa Station. The next novel, unfinished and untitled when O'Brian died in 2000, would have been the chronicle of that mission. For true fans, 21 is a fragmentary but worthy addition to the series and a fascinating look at the author at work. www.mcbooks.com /Historical/OBrianPage/OBrianBlurbs/on21.html   (83 words)

Barnes & Noble.com - Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey - Maturin Series #20) - Patrick O'Brian - Paperback   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Blue at the Mizzen begins with a festive display of bonhomie and largesse that belies Aubrey's deep unease. For Aubrey, this uncertain escapade represents the last hope of attaining his personal "blue at the mizzen" -- the pennant that signifies an admiral at the head of his squadron. Some of the earlier books in the series were better than Blue at the Mizzen, but it was still superb. search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=a11eyYfAkh&isbn=039332107X&itm=1   (1609 words)

Glossary of terms from Patrick O'Brian Books There were always two binnacles on the deck of a ship of war, one being designed for the man who steered, the other for the person who superintended the steerage, whose office was called conning. Blue Peter A blue signal flag with white square in the center, hoisted on the foremast to indicate a vessel is ready to sail. It was a recall to the crew "that they repair on board" and for shoresiders to conclude any business they had with the vessel. orik.com /books/obrianglossary.html   (3060 words)

SimplyFamily - Where Families Come Together It has taken him 20 novels to get there and Patrick O'Brian, his creator, looks out at us from the jacket of this one with quizzical self-amusement, as if to share with us the satisfaction of a merry job well done. "Blue at the Mizzen" is not announced as the end of the saga, and of late O'Brian has said he at least is working on the beginnings of another. But this one, if it proves necessary, rounds off the whole enterprise in a manner quintessentially O'Brianesque, that is to say, with graceful and seaman-like restraint. www.simplyfamily.com /display.cfm?articleID=991217home_sea.cfm   (370 words)

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AbeBooks: Suchergebnisse - Patrick Obrian und Blue At The Mizzen AbeBooks: Suchergebnisse - Patrick Obrian und Blue At The Mizzen Blue At the Mizzen :Aubrey 20 (ISBN: 9780393321074) The title of this book, which seems to dance in the breeze. www.abebooks.de /search/sortby/3/an/Patrick+Obrian+/tn/+Blue+At+The+Mizzen   (582 words)

The Morning After   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) In fact, he'd imagined the scene so thoroughly, while pacing the quarterdeck one grey and drizzling afternoon, down to the very words that Stephen would utter, and had received such a measure of comfort from this hypothetical advice, that he'd decided to leave well enough alone and accept it as a given. No darkness, but a sheer dazzling sunlight all around, and an achingly blue sea and sky. For one exquisite moment he lay unmoving, staring up at the beam above his head and softly repeating the words he had heard for the first time only yesterday, from dear Stephen of all people, by now of course committed to memory... www.hmssurprise.org /Fiction/flowing_sheet2/The_Morning_After.htm   (460 words)

Aubrey / Maturin Series : Book 20 : Blue at the Mizzen at Audiobooks Online - Cassette, CD, MP3 audio books Blue at the Mizzen is an intricate, multifaceted work--one of those rare novels that actually bear up under close scrutiny." --The New York Times Book Review, Amanda Foreman on the hardcover edition Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace takes on an ugly complexion for Jack Aubrey: drunken, violent celebrations on the English sailors in Gibraltar; the desertion of nearly half his crew; and the sudden dimming of his own career prospects in a peacetime navy. In the end, Jack's bold initiative to strike at the vastly superior Spanish fleet precipitates naval action that will determine both Chile's fate and his own. www.audiobooksonline.com /shopsite/0375408762.html   (304 words)

Bublos.com: Compare Book Prices ›› 21: The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey - Patrick O'Brian - ... Blue at the Mizzen (novel #20) ended with Jack Aubrey getting the news, in Chile, of his elevation to flag rank: Rear Admiral of the Blue Squadron, with orders to sail to the South Africa station. The next novel, unfinished and untitled at the time of the author's death, would have been the chronicle of that mission, and much else besides. Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey - Maturin Series #20) Patrick O'Brian www.bublos.com /isbn/039306025X.html   (718 words)

John Quiggin: What I'm reading The Yellow Admiral and Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brian. I particularly enjoyed Aubrey's role as a paternalist squire preventing the enclosure of a local commons - almost the only time in the entire series where he is heroic and successful by land. Blue at the Mizzen brings me to the end of the series, always an ambiguous feeling for me. There's still a couple I haven't managed to get hold of, including The Nutmeg of Consolation and The Hundred Days. www.johnquiggin.com /archives/001816.html   (577 words)

George Will   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Not until he was 50 did William F. Buckley read "Moby Dick." Then he told friends: To think I might have died without having read it. That is exactly how O'Brian's readers feel about their voyage that began with "Master and Commander" in 1969 and now has its 20th installment in the publication of "Blue at the Mizzen." "Blue at the Mizzen" refers to the blue flag that an admiral flew from his ship's mizzenmast. www.jewishworldreview.com /cols/will011300.asp   (747 words)

After literary series ends, adventurers Aubrey and Maturin live vividly Sitting on the other side of the kitchen table, I raised my hand to wave farewell to our fictional friends as they set sail for the South Africa squadron, where Jack Aubrey would hoist his blue pennant. We knew, of course, from the title of the last book, "Blue at the Mizzen," that "Lucky" Jack would make admiral. For the last year and a half, at home or traveling, we have devoted what evenings we could to this 20-volume series on the British Royal Navy during the time of Napoleon. www.post-gazette.com /columnists/20010624rubin0624fnp1.asp   (945 words)

From Chile With Love / Aubrey and Maturin set sail to help revolutionaries fight against Spain ``Blue at the Mizzen,'' the 20th volume in this series, finds O'Brian remarkably unimproved from the first book, which is to say in top form after a perceptible falling off of energy and authorial relish evident in some of the shorter books in the middle of the series. ``Blue'' is filled with exuberance and humor, and a writer's palpable delight at exercising his finest muscles. Here, and in his last book, ``The Hundred Days,'' O'Brian seems to have found new wind for himself at age 85 and renewed life for his two doughty and dissimilar protagonists, Capt. Jack Aubrey and his ship's surgeon and ``particular friend,'' Dr. Stephen Maturin. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/12/19/RV94359.DTL&type=printable   (782 words)

Patrick O'Brien Books: Aubrey-Maturin Series H.M.S. Surprise: In India, a prodigious blue diamond, a fatal duel, and a dramatic fleet action against the French. Blue at the Mizzen: Jack Aubrey stakes all on a desperate solo night raid against the might of the Spanish viceroy in Peru. Another impeccably written adventure, by the end of which you should be able to identify a mizzen topsail in your sleep. orik.com /books/patrickobrien.htm   (1626 words)

Abbeys Bookshop - Blue at the Mizzen (V20) Abbeys Bookshop - Blue at the Mizzen (V20) Napoleon's hundred days of freedom and his renewed threat to Europe have ended at Waterloo and Aubrey has finally, as the title suggests, become a blue level admiral. Blue at the Mizzen also brings alive the sights and sounds of revolutionary South America in a story as exciting as any O'Brian has written. www.abbeys.com.au /items.asp?productcode=0006513786   (310 words)

Selected Reading - Fiction Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey/Maturin Series, No 20) The 20th episode, Blue at the Mizzen, is another swashbuckling adventure on the high seas, complete with romantic escapades from smoggy London to Sierra Leone, diplomacy, espionage, the intricacies of warfare, and imperial brinksmanship. As always, these events are bound up in the ongoing friendship between two officers of the Royal Navy. afgen.com /books_fiction.html   (2866 words)

A Bluestocking Knits Charade socks, in Supersock's "Blues and Purples," cast on while the Conwys were still blocking -- these are for Laura, and I was hoping to get them done for the first day of school, but that is Thursday and I already have ripped out this in the photo, since it was too small.... The blue is a little more vivid than I could capture, but still, this gives a pretty good idea. Also in the package was a box of salt-water taffy (a perfect treat, as we missed it at the county fair this year!) and a postcard of the colonial kitchen at Cedar Grove at Fairmount Park -- not only an intriguing thing in itself, but also cleverly color-matched by Specs to the socks. mathomhouse.typepad.com /bluestocking   (3477 words)

Amazon.com: Blue at the Mizzen: Books: Patrick O'Brian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) As always, these events are bound up in the ongoing friendship between two officers of the Royal Navy. The ostensible issue is whether Jack will finally be promoted to Admiral of the Blue. But long before he hears any word from the Napoleonic era's equivalent of Personnel, he loses half his crew to desertion, his ship undergoes a disastrous collision, and the entire company comes close to perishing in the ice-choked seas off Cape Horn. www.amazon.com /Blue-at-Mizzen-Patrick-OBrian/dp/039332107X   (1231 words)

Archived Newsletter Content Days earlier I had flipped to Book Notes on cable TV and found the 85 year old novelist being interviewed by Walter Cronkite, and promoting his twentieth and last Aubrey/Maturin, Blue at the Mizzen (Norton $24, earlier titles $13.95 trade paperback). The author was working (in pen and longhand as with all the earlier manuscripts) on another installment to the saga in his final digs at Trinity College in Dublin. Though some issues in the saga were resolved (as suggested by the title Blue at the Mizzen) other fresh story ideas and horizons appeared, and the last novel was left open-ended. www.unclehugo.com /prod/newsletterSection.shtml?seq=49§ion=mysteryReviews   (4334 words)

Keynsham Online : Shop : Books : Blue at the Mizzen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) This is a pedestrian, disjointed and disappointing addition to one of the (or even THE) most satisfying collections of stories of its type in the English language. In "Blue at the Mizzen" O'Brian has continued to do what he started to do at the beginning of his series. He has portrayed two men passing through their lives from first youth to the end of their careers. www.keynsham.co.uk /shop/ItemDetail0006513786.html   (610 words)

Search Results for mizzen - Encyclopædia Britannica two-masted sailboat, usually rigged with one or more jibsails, a mainsail, and a mizzen. The late Elizabethan galleon that began the true fighting ship of the line reached its culmination in England's Prince Royal of 1610 and the larger Sovereign of the Seas of 1637, along with similar... Also includes excerpts from Blue at the Mizzen. www.britannica.com /search?query=mizzen&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT   (102 words)

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