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Captain Bligh (yes, the guy from the Bounty) needs to be rescued, and the Royal Navy has the perfect man for the job: Captain Jack Aubrey. With his friend and cloak-and-dagger expert Stephen Maturin in tow, Aubrey sets off for Australia. Several factors, including an attractive spy and a small-scale epidemic, conspire to change his plans, and before long his frigate is being pursued into Antarctic waters by a Dutch man-of-war.
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Desolation Island, Patrick O’Brian
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- Released
- 1994
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- Title
- Desolation Island
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Patrick O’Brian
- Publisher
- Harper Collins Publishers
- Released
- 1994
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0007787472
- ISBN13
- 9780007787470
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Military Fiction, Wars, Series, Great Britain, Napoleonic Wars, Antarctica
- First published
- 1978
- Original title
- Desolation Island
- Rating
- 4.4 out of 5
- Description
- Captain Bligh (yes, the guy from the Bounty) needs to be rescued, and the Royal Navy has the perfect man for the job: Captain Jack Aubrey. With his friend and cloak-and-dagger expert Stephen Maturin in tow, Aubrey sets off for Australia. Several factors, including an attractive spy and a small-scale epidemic, conspire to change his plans, and before long his frigate is being pursued into Antarctic waters by a Dutch man-of-war.