Desolation Island by Patrick O'brian

Desolation Island by Patrick O'brian

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 that decimates the crew. With a Dutch man-of-war to windward, the undermanned, outgunned Leopard sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, where, in mountain seas, the Dutchman closes.

"Good history…espionage, romance…and an action at sea that for sheer descriptive power can match anything in sea-fiction" -- Christopher Wordsworth - Guardian
"I have been enthralled since reading Master and Commander. Now, having just finished Desolation Island, I find myself curiously anxious to slow down. True, [more] volumes await me, but what I have read is so rich and splendid that I need to ponder and digest." -- Robert Massie

One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O’Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.

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ISBN 13	9780393541625
ISBN 10	0393541622
Title	Desolation Island
Author	Patrick O'brian
Series	Aubrey Maturin Novels
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	2020-11-30
Number of pages	320
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.