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Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning with Master and Commander these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the fifth book in the series. Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy -- and a treacherous disease which decimates the crew. The ingredients of a wonderfully powerful and dramatic O'Brian novel are heightened by descriptive writing of rare quality. Nowhere in contemporary prose have the majesty and terror of the sea been more effectively rendered than in the thrilling chase through an Antarctic storm in which Jack's ship under-manned and out-gunned is the quarry not the hunter.
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Desolation Island : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers : 9780006499244 : : 29 Sep 2014 : On Desolation Island, with the known world out of reach, uneasy alliances are sometimes forged...
- 0006499244
- 9780006499244
- Patrick O'Brian
- 1 April 2010
- Harper
- Paperback (Book)
- 348
- (Reissue)
- Special Edition
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