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| Original Title: | Desolation Island |
| ISBN: | 039330812X (ISBN13: 9780393308129) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Aubrey & Maturin #5 |
| Characters: | Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin |
Patrick O'Brian
Paperback | Pages: 350 pages Rating: 4.4 | 11732 Users | 465 Reviews
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"[O'Brian's] Aubrey-Maturin series, 20 novels of the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars, is a masterpiece. It will outlive most of today's putative literary gems as Sherlock Holmes has outlived Bulwer-Lytton, as Mark Twain has outlived Charles Reade." —David Mamet, New York TimesCommissioned 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.
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| Title | : | Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin #5) |
| Author | : | Patrick O'Brian |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 350 pages |
| Published | : | August 17th 1991 by W. W. Norton Company (first published 1978) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Adventure. Audiobook. War. Military Fiction |
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Ratings: 4.4 From 11732 Users | 465 ReviewsJudgment Out Of Books Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin #5)
This was my favorite of the series. Probably because I love Antarctica and hate the Dutch. Just kidding, Dutch people!This is now my third time reading through this brilliant series and I am reminded again how beautifully written and how wonderfully, addictively enjoyable they are.In The Mauritius Command, Jack is finding shore-bound domestic life somewhat less blissful than he had anticipated, but through Steven's machinations is given command of a squadron to fight in the Indian Ocean where French warships are playing havoc with the Company's trade. As always, there is a gripping, varied narrative and some
(I listened to the unabridged audiobook version, read by Patrick Tull. --10/24/11)Loved this story, the best of the lot I've read since Post Captain (though every single one is head and shoulders above most historical fiction I've ever read). It was quite different from the previous books, with the "action" being more of the episodic type aboard the HMS Leopard on its trip around the Cape, en route to Australia on a mission. The mission itself is secondary, as things like typhus, female
This is one of my favorites from the series. It contains what I believe to be arguably the most riveting sea chase in any novel. Captain Aubrey is to take the Leopard, a two deck ship of fifty guns to Botany Bay to come to the aid of William Bligh (yes that William Bligh of the Bounty) who is now Governor of New South Wales and seems to have yet another mutiny on his hands. On route, they are chased by the Waakzaamheid, a Dutch ship of the line (three decks of 74 guns) into the far southern
This was one of the best in this series yet. From start to finish I was intrigued, there was so much in this book. Spy games, sea chases, storms, iceberg, diseases and of course the friendship of Jack and Stephen.
Excellent, as always. I can't say enough about this series. It requires some work from the reader, or the willingness of the reader to simply not understand some of it. What I mean is, writers of historical fiction have a choice to make: explain every custom, odd phrase, popular dish, law -- anything that the contemporary reader might not know about that period. Doing that, he or she has to slow the action down and explain, explain, explain.But O'Brian never does that. Never. And we're talking
I haven't got time to properly read this lovely book again, but I love the close descriptions, the period phrases thrown in just often enough (like "cutting his coat according to his cloth"), and the close Third Person narrated internal monologue that keeps enough vivid action imagery to hold interest for several surprising pages.Well worth a first or second read.7 Feb, 12019 HEShira
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