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Desolation Island

by Patrick O’Brian

Part of Aubrey–Maturin Novels

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Jack Aubrey takes HMS Leopard toward New South Wales with convicts, officials and an American intelligence agent aboard. Stephen Maturin is charged with watching the prisoner while disease and divided loyalties spread through the crowded ship.

A powerful Dutch warship pursues the weakened Leopard into southern waters. The chase through storms and ice forces Jack to sacrifice ship and crew for survival, ending with refuge at remote Desolation Island.

Historical periods

Napoleonic Era Transportation to Australia Royal Navy in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Genres

Espionage Exploration & Survival Fiction Maritime Fiction War Fiction

Historical people

William Bligh1754–1817

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