Description

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 OBrianor Stephen Maturincould 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 Maturins Irish temper, and to a near-fatal encounter with the wildlife of the Australian outback.

Author: Patrick OBrian
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/28/2022
Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #14
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781324020547
Language: English