The Yellow Admiral

Jack Aubrey is ashore in Dorset while the war with France pauses, fighting a local scheme to enclose common land that would ruin his neighbours and damage his own standing. Promotion politics threaten to yellow him - to make him a rear-admiral without a squadron - and money troubles follow earlier prize and estate failures. Stephen Maturin continues intelligence work and natural history as the European peace proves unstable. The novel moves between country politics, the Admiralty, and a return to sea when fighting resumes. It is one Aubrey-Maturin naval novel, not a treatise on enclosure law.

Bound in dark blue buckram, cover blocked in gilt and colour with a design by Neil Gower. Blue slipcase.