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Shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Jack Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner from the wreck. Though a vicious attack by Malay pirates is repulsed, the makeshift vessel burns, and Aubrey and his crew 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.
XIV° libro - Avvincente romanzo marinaresco che vede il suo svolgimento nel mar dei caraibi con profusione di termini velici. Momenti di forte interesse. I protagonisti sono gli stessi degli altri libri dell'autore a cui fa spesso riferimento. ( )
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MARIAE SACRUM
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Any author whose tales are situated in the early nineteenth century and whose people are for the most part sailors must depend for a great deal of his factual information and for much of his sense of the time on the memoirs and letters of seamen, on Admiralty and navy oard records, on naval historians and of course on the invaluable publications of the Navy Records Society.
Author's note.
A hundred and fifty-seven castaways on a desert island in the South China Sea, the survivors of the wreck of HMS Diane, which had struck against an uncharted rock and had there een shattered by a great typhoon some days later: a hundred and fifty-seven, but as they sat there round the edge of a flat bare piece of ground between high-water mark and the beginning of the forest they sounded like the full complement of a ship of the line, for this was Sunday afternoon, and the starboard watch, headed by Captain Aubrey, was engaged in a cricket-match against the Marines, under their commanding officer, Mr Welby.
Chapter one.
The period which Patrick O'Brian has made his own, the Great Wars against France, is at once the least and the best known part of all British naval history.
The naval world of Jack Aubrey, by N.A.M. Rodger.
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'Many books would be far better without their last chapter: or at least with no more than a brief, cool, unemotional statement of the outcome.' [Stephen to Poulton, 242]
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'Jack, I cannot tell you how ardently, how very ardently, I look forward to going home.'
Shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Jack Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner from the wreck. Though a vicious attack by Malay pirates is repulsed, the makeshift vessel burns, and Aubrey and his crew 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.
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