21 (novel)

21 (2004) is the American title of The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey which is the unfinished twenty-first novel by Patrick O'Brian in the Aubrey–Maturin series. It was released in the fall of 2004. It comprises the partially corrected typescript of the approximately three chapters completed by O'Brian before his death in January, 2000, as well as a facsimile of the handwritten manuscript which continues beyond the end of the typescript. It is obvious that there would have to have been a lot more polishing and editing of the text to bring it to O'Brian's usual standards. There is a Foreword by William Waldegrave and an Afterword by Richard Snow .

Patrick O'Brian's Last