5 - Desolation Island — Bobbio Scriptorium

✍ O'Brian, Patrick 📂 Fiction 🏛 HarperCollins 🌐 English ⚖ 327 KB

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.

Book 5 - Desolation Island

✍ O'Brian, Patrick 📂 Fiction 🏛 HarperCollins 🌐 English ⚖ 261 KB

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.

Desolation Island

✍ O'Brian, Patrick 📂 Fiction 📅 1977;2007 🏛 [distributor] HarperCollins Distribution Services, 🌐 English ⚖ 210 KB 👁 2 views

EDITORIAL REVIEW: First published in 1978 a historical maritime adventure featuring Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin, who are bound for Australia with a cargo of convicts, among them a beautiful but dangerous spy and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. B

Desolation Island

✍ O'Brian, Patrick 📂 Fiction 📅 1977;2007 🏛 [distributor] HarperCollins Distribution Services, 🌐 English ⚖ 211 KB 👁 2 views

EDITORIAL REVIEW: First published in 1978 a historical maritime adventure featuring Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin, who are bound for Australia with a cargo of convicts, among them a beautiful but dangerous spy and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. By the

Desolation Island

✍ O'Brian, Patrick 📂 Fiction 📅 1977;2007 🏛 [distributor] HarperCollins Distribution Services, 🌐 English ⚖ 211 KB 👁 2 views

EDITORIAL REVIEW: First published in 1978 a historical maritime adventure featuring Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin, who are bound for Australia with a cargo of convicts, among them a beautiful but dangerous spy and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. By the

Desolation Island

✍ Patrick O'Brian 📂 Fiction 📅 1991;1994 🏛 W. W. Norton & Company 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 272 KB 👁 2 views

**"The relationship [between Aubrey and Maturin]...is about the best thing afloat....For Conradian power of description and sheer excitement there is nothing in naval fiction to beat the stern chase as the outgunned *Leopard* staggers through mountain waves in icy latitudes to escape the Dutch seven