📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 27: Surprise

My all-time favorite Surprise. In fact, all twenty volumes of this Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian are wonderful. I am perpetually rereading them. I think I’m on my fourth circumnavigation after my first voyage some 20 years ago.

Photo of the Folio Society edition of HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brian