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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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Fiel a su esp ritu de reproducir los entresijos de la historia, O'Brian logr en esta obra una de sus novelas m s arrebatadoras. Si al final de "Trece salvas de honor", los tripulantes de la "Diane" hab an logrado arribar a una isla desierta al naufragar la embarcaci n, en esta... Read Full Overview