- Title:
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The Nutmeg of Consolation
- Series:
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Aubrey-Maturin #14
- Written by:
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Patrick O'Brian
- Read by:
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Ric Jerrom
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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11
- Duration:
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13 hours 8 minutes
- Published:
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May 28 2017
- Available Date:
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May 28 2017
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489393586
- Genres:
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Fiction; Historical Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
‘The best historical novels ever written.’
The New York Times Book Review
Shipwrecked! When Captain Aubrey and his crew run aground on a remote island, they labour to construct a seaworthy schooner from the wreckage ...
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 are truly marooned. Their escape from this predicament is one that only the whimsy and ingenuity of Patrick O'Brian or Stephen Maturin could devise. 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 the Australian outback.