Errata of Five Volume Set
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Errata of the five volume set
"The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels"
by Patrick O'brian
This is a project that I'm starting because I'm very frustrated with the editing of the five volume set. I'm sure that I'm not the only one.
If anyone wants help out I would welcome any inputs, use the discussion tab.
Try to stay away from from text that may just be characterizations, or archaic usages, blatant editorial errors first.
Book 1 - Master and Commander
Page 40, last line "pallas" should be capitalized.
Pg 57, Line 19 "Vertuesuse" should be italicized.
Pg 349, Line 17 "Amelia" would be italicized.
Pg 685, Line 9 "lid" should be "fid"
Pg 738, Line 32 "lat" should be "that"
Book 2 - Post Captain
Pg 810, Line 32 "comer" should be "corner", possibly caused by typeface.
Pg 845, Line 22, possibly style choices, maybe even puns or some other play on words. "once" should possibly be "one" and "mortality" could be "morality".
Pg 858, Line 1 "lively" should be capitalized and italicized.
Book 3 - H.M.S. Surprise
Pg 888, Line 26 "Goldsmids" could be "Goldsmiths"
Pg 896, Line 21 "Blain" should have an e added to it.
Pg 921, Line 29 "cutlash" could be "cutlass", though it could also be Killick's way of speaking. Perhaps he's drunk.
Pg 1106, Line 4 "lively" should be capitalized and italicized.
Pg 1118, Line 36 "her" could be "here".
Pg 1164 , Line 21 "gajined" should be "gained"
Book 4 - The Mauritius Command
Pg 1353, Line 12 "though" should be "thought"
Pg 1447, Line 21 "carryon" should be two words "carry on"
Pg 1473, Line 5 "Ceylon" should be italicized.
Pg 1476, Line 26 "Bel/one" should be "Bellone", and italicized.
Pg 1479, Line 29 "arid" should be "and"
Pg 1486, Line 1 "carne" should be "came", mistake is repeated in line 5
Pg 1488, Line 20 "Iphigenia" should be italicized. Mistake repeated in line 22, on the next page, line 27, and again on Pg 1492, line 16
Pg 1518, Line 17 "seamart's" should be "seaman's"
Volume 2
Book 5 - Desolation Island
Pg 1580, Line 13 "buth" should be "both"
Pg 1669, Line 9 "Iamb" should be "lamb", L instead of i
Pg 1718, Line 28 "loth"? This is an alternate spelling of "loath", but that doesn't make sense contextually.
Pg 1720, Line 5 "bay" should be "bag"
Pg 1749, Line 30 "uopard" should be "Leopard", italicized.
Pg 1757, Line 26 "still" should be "skill"
Pg 1779, Line 24 "Theseus" should be italicized.
Pg 1829, Line 19 "tool!" should be "too!"
Pg 1831, Line 4 "cab lets" should be "cables"
Pg 1873, Line 12 "a propos" should be "apropos"
Book 6 - The Fortune of War
Pg 1910, Line 35 "Java" should not be italicized.
Pg 1948, Line 3 "Chesapeake" should not be italicized.
Pg 1980, Line 11 "Leopard" should be plural, and not italicized.
Pg 2010, Line 21 "Chesapeake" should not be italicized
Pg 2134, Line 15 "Arcturus" should not be italicized.
Book 7 - The Surgeon's Mate
Pg 2398, Line "arc" should be "are"
Pg 2454, Line 2 "tile" should be "the"
Pg 2455, Line 20 "sailor" should be "sail or"
Pg 2472, Line 27 "I n" should be "In"
Book 8 - The Ionian Mission
Pg 2602. Line 17 "arc" should be "are"
Pg 2856, Line 34 "surprise" should be capitalized and italicized
Pg 2865, Line 30 "relics" should be "relies"
Pg 2906. Line 4 "cars" should be "ears"
Volume 3
No Editing errors
Volume 4
The Thirteen Gun Salute
Pg 4267, Line 30 "mort:" should be "more"
The Nutmeg of Consolation
The Truelove
Pg 4893, Line 6 "sailor" should be "sail or"
The Wine-Dark Sea
Pg 5181, Line 26 "like" should be "lie"
Pg 5181, Line 27 "glove" should be "give"
Pg 5324, Line 29 "Fava" should be "Java"
Pg 5337, Line 13 "shuts" should be "shots"
Volume 5
The Commodore
Pg 5467, Line 19 "I" should be deleted
Pg 5516, Line 10 and Line 17 "Fava" should be "Java"
Pg 5522, Line 9 "cab let" should be "cable"
Pg 5613, Line 18 "pot to" should be "potto"
Pg 5639, Line 11 "Fava" should be "Java"
The Yellow Admiral
Pg 5821, Line 6 "sailor" should be "sail or"
The Hundred Days
Pg 5931, Line 12 "Royal Sovereign" should be italicized
Pg 6157, Line 17 "sailor" should be "sail or"
Blue at the Mizzen
Pg 6342, Line 10 "holydeck" should be "holy deck"
