The Nutmeg of Consolation (Abridged)

by Patrick O'Brian Narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith

Overview

We join Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, captain in the Royal Navy and surgeon/intelligence agent respectively, where we left them at the end of The Thirteen Gun Salute: shipwrecked on a remote Dutch East Indies island.

Employing great enterprise, Aubrey secures a new ship and sails for Australia. A penal colony by charter, in fact a grim outpost of legalized slavery, conditions there exacerbate Maturin's Irish temper and nearly provoke a diplomatic crisis. And an excursion into the bush ends in a close encounter of the final kind.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169234220
Publisher:	Penguin Random House
Publication date:	08/07/2001
Edition description:	Abridged

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