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Desolation Island

โœ Scribed by Patrick O'Brian

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Year
2011
Tongue
en-US
Weight
279 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0393088529

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โœฆ Synopsis

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now, for the first time, they are available in electronic book format, so a whole new generation of readers can be swept away on the adventure of a lifetime. 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
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**"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

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Desolation Island
โœ O'Brian, Patrick ๐Ÿ“‚ Fiction ๐Ÿ“… 1977;2007 ๐Ÿ› [distributor] HarperCollins Distribution Services, ๐ŸŒ English โš– 211 KB ๐Ÿ‘ 1 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