Book is as new except for a little dust spotting to top edge of text block and light softening of spine ends. Jacket (Riou, cover art) is crisp and clean but has a small 1/4" tear to top back edge. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin take the Leopard to New South Wales in a trip around the Horn. 5.5" X 8.5" 276 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Desolation Island

Publisher

Stein and Day, NY

Publication Date

1979

Language

English

ISBN 10

081282590X

ISBN 13

9780812825909

Binding

hardcover

Edition

(1st American edition).

Condition

VERY GOOD

Seller catalogs

FIC047000��FICTION�/ Sea Stories

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Synopsis

Aboard a frigate crossing the stormy Atlantic, Jack, Aubrey and his friend Stephen Maturin, a saturnine Irish physician, become involved with a beautiful American woman being transported to Australia for espionage.

Review

Captain Bligh (yes, the guy from the Bounty) needs to be rescued, and the Royal Navy has the perfect man for the job: Captain Jack Aubrey. With his friend and cloak-and-dagger expert Stephen Maturin in tow, Aubrey sets off for Australia. Several factors, including an attractive spy and a small-scale epidemic, conspire to change his plans, and before long his frigate is being pursued into Antarctic waters by a Dutch man-of-war. Five installments into the series, the Aubrey-Maturin story remains (to quote The Observer) "the best thing afloat since Horatio Hornblower."

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