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**"[The series shows] a joy in language that jumps from every page....You're in for a wonderful voyage."—Cutler Durkee, *People***Shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the *Diane* fashion a schooner from the wreck. A vicious attack by Malay pirates is repulsed, but the makeshift vessel burns, and they are truly marooned. Their escape from this predicament is one that only the whimsy and ingenuity of Patrick O'Brian—or Stephen Maturin—could devise.In command now of a new ship, the *Nutmeg*, Aubrey pursues his interrupted mission. The dreadful penal colony in New South Wales, harrowingly described, is the backdrop to a diplomatic crisis provoked by Maturin's Irish temper, and to a near-fatal encounter with the wildlife of the Australian outback.Shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane finally escape and pursue their interrupted mission on the Nutmeg. "Forrester is still the master of ocean-going derring-do . . . look no fur ther than Patrick O'Brian."--Cleveland Plain

Author

Patrick O'Brian, Graham Roberts

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780006499299

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.4 / 5 (2,269 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14