Desolation Island (Vol. Book 5) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

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Desolation Island (Vol. Book 5) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) is written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0393088529 (ISBN 10) and 9780393088526 (ISBN 13).

"The relationship [between Aubrey and Maturin]...is about the best thing afloat....For Conradian power of description and sheer excitement there is nothing in naval fiction to beat the stern chase as the outgunned Leopard staggers through mountain waves in icy latitudes to escape the Dutch seventy-four." —Stephen Vaughan, Observer 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.