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Title:

Desolation Island
 

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Genres:

Historical
Nautical
Adventure

Series:

Aubrey-Maturin Series, the
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1 1978-00-00 W.W. Norton & Company  

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Blurb: 
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.