The Golden Ocean
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The Golden Ocean is a novel written in the 1950s by Patrick O'Brian. It tells the story of a novice midshipman, Peter Palafox, who joins Anson's 1740 circumnavigation of the globe. As with O'Brian's later Aubrey–Maturin series the book contains a wealth of period detail, a smattering of historical figures including the midshipman Keppel who has a song for every occasion.
The same expedition is described from a different perspective in O'Brian's The Unknown Shore.
| Patrick O'Brian |
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| Characters: Jack Aubrey | Stephen Maturin |
| Aubrey-Maturin series: Master and Commander | Post Captain | HMS Surprise | The Mauritius Command | Desolation Island | The Fortune of War | The Surgeon's Mate | The Ionian Mission | Treason's Harbour | The Far Side of the World | The Reverse of the Medal | The Letter of Marque | The Thirteen-Gun Salute | The Nutmeg of Consolation | Clarissa Oakes | The Wine-Dark Sea | The Commodore | The Yellow Admiral | The Hundred Days | Blue at the Mizzen | The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey |
| Other Novels: Caesar | Hussein | Testimonies | The Catalans | The Golden Ocean | The Unknown Shore | Richard Temple | The Rendezvous and other stories |
| Non-Fiction: Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy | Picasso | Joseph Banks: A Life |
| Biographies of O'Brian: Patrick O'Brian - A life revealed | Patrick O'Brian: The Making of the Novelist | Patrick O'Brian: A Bibliography and Critical Appreciation |
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