The Nutmeg of Consolation (Aubrey & Maturin)
O'Brian, Patrick
From Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since May 31, 2006
From Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since May 31, 2006
About this Item
"[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. Seller Inventory # SONG0393030326
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Nutmeg of Consolation (Aubrey & Maturin)
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
About this title
"[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."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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