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Desolation Island (Aubrey/Maturin, Bk 5)
Desolation Island - Aubrey/Maturin, Bk 5
Author: Patrick O'Brian
The 5th novel in Patrick O'Brian's hugely successful Aubrey/Maturin 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 that decimates the cr...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393308129
ISBN-10: 039330812X
Publication Date: 8/1991
Pages: 325
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Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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While the first 4 books in "the Cannon" are written as squeals to one another, each book's story resolving by its respective end, Desolation Island is the first of what is considered a trilogy inside the wider series (Desolation Island, the Fortune of War and the Surgeon Mate).
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Great fun, riveting. Had to read all the O'Brian books
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My husband says it was great--as are all of O'Brian's book.

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