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The Ionian Mission is the eighth historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1981. The story is set during the Napoleonic Wars . The plot begins with the marriage of Dr Maturin and Diana Villiers.
The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—by English author Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centring on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, a physician, natural philosopher, and intelligence agent.
In The Ionian Mission and Treason's Harbour, he is called Davis, with the same description as Davies, and was saved from drowning just once. In Treason's Harbour (Chapter 7), in port at Suez, he negotiated with a bear leader to buy the cub, when "a fight broke out in the square below, a fight between Davis and the bear, which resented his ...
A 74-gun ship by the name of HMS Worcester featured in The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian.Despite the events of the novel taking place during this ship's lifetime, the Worcester of the novel is described as being one of the 'forty-thieves'—a name ascribed to the ships of the later, and somewhat infamous Surveyors' class of third rates, sometimes also known as the Vengeur class.
The Ionian Mission: 1813 Converted to shear hulk following storm damage Yes HMS Surprise: 6th 28 12 lb The Ionian Mission: 1813 Temporary command No HEICS Niobe: 9 lb Treason's Harbour: 1813 Temporary command Yes HMS Surprise: 6th 28 12 lb The Far Side of the World: 1813 Paid off, then sold out of service No HMS Diane: 5th 32 18 lb The Thirteen ...
The Ionian Mission The Surgeon's Mate is the seventh historical novel in the Aubrey–Maturin series written by Patrick O'Brian , first published in 1980. The story is set during the War of 1812 and the Napoleonic Wars .
The Ionian dialect was one of the three major linguistic divisions of the Hellenic world, together with the Dorian and Aeolian dialects. When referring to populations, "Ionian" defines several groups in Classical Greece. In its narrowest sense, the term referred to the region of Ionia in Asia Minor.
The Ionian school of pre-Socratic philosophy refers to Ancient Greek philosophers, or a school of thought, in Ionia in the 6th century B.C, the first in the Western tradition. The Ionian school included such thinkers as Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, and Archelaus. [1] This classification can be traced to the ...