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Desolation Island Audio

Patrick O'Brian

"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 crew. With a Dutch man-of-war to windward, the undermanned, outgunned Leopard sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, where, in mountain seas, the Dutchman closes"--

GenresWar storiesHistorical fiction

296 pages

English edition · First published 2021 by W. W. Norton & Company · ISBN 9780393541625

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