Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are to be re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets. 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 which decimates the crew. The ingredients of a ...
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Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are to be re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets. 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 which decimates the crew. The ingredients of a wonderfully powerful and dramatic O'Brian novel are heightened by descriptive writing of rare quality. Nowhere in contemporary prose have the majesty and terror of the sea been more effectively rendered than in the thrilling chase through an Antarctic storm in which Jack's ship, under-manned and out-gunned, is the quarry not the hunter.
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Add this copy of Desolation Island to cart. $48.97, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Harpercollins.
Add this copy of Desolation Island to cart. $110.00, very good condition, Sold by Chapter 1 Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA, published 1978 by Collins, London.
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Very Good in Good jacket. 276 pages (complete). A pleasing copy of this first edition Jack Aubrey story from O'Brian. The dustjacket is benign. It has some wear, light sunning to the spine. It is decent and sure. The boards are tidy and healthy. The frontispage has a previous retailer stamp. The pages are most agreeable. They are tight, fresh, clean, clear, congenial. fk.
Add this copy of Desolation Island to cart. $303.00, like new condition, Sold by Aquila Books rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Calgary, AB, CANADA, published 1978 by Collins.
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Fine. 1st English Edition. 276pp. Octavo. Original grey cloth with gilt lettering on spine in dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped. fine A Jack Aubrey story.
Add this copy of Desolation Island to cart. $303.00, very good condition, Sold by Aquila Books rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Calgary, AB, CANADA, published 1978 by William Collins Sons & Co.
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Near fine. 1st UK Edition. 276pp. Octavo. Original grey cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very light wear to ends of spine. Mark from a price sticker on front free endpaper. Clean, tight text block. In dust jacket, price clipped. Light wear to edges of jacket with some very light chipping to top corners. A lovely copy. near fine A book in the Aubrey? aturin series of novels, written by O'Brian, a celebrated English Author. The novels are set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centred on the friendship of English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish? atalan physician Stephen Maturin. The 20-novel series is known for its well-researched and highly detailed portrayal of early 19th-century life, as well as its authentic and evocative language.
Patrick O'Brian wrote 20 novels in this series and Desolation is one of the overall best. The action is intense, the story believable and the characters will cause anyone who reads this to catch AMS - the Aubry/Matrian Syndrome!
More than a nautical tale, it is a story about a relationship between a ships capitan (Jack Aubry) and his "particular" friend and surgen, Stephen Matrian. Beyond that is the intregue that comes with the special duties that Maturian conducts.
Most start with the first book in the series, not this 5th one, but each are written as a complete book so you can start with Desolation Island as it is a complete story on its own.
There are none who have done historical fiction better than O'Brian. His details make every story come alive.
