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A breathtaking collection of sea-faring tales. Contains Desolation Island, The Fortune of War and The Surgeon’s Mate. These three tales follow Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend the surgeon, Stephen Maturin as they sail to Australia with a hold full of convicts and a beautiful and dangerous spy; as they arrive in the Dutch East Indies where Jack Aubrey is appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate...

Desolation Island written by Patrick O'Brian performed by Robert Hardy on CD (Abridged)

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ISBN: 9780007261734
Genre - Main: Fiction
Genre - Specific: Historical
Duration: 180 mins
Length: Abridged
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Performer 1: Robert Hardy

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A Genius Performance by Robert Hardy!

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 which decimates the crew. The ingredients of a wonderfully powerful and dramatic O’Brian novel are heightened by descriptive writing of rare quality. Nowhere in contemporary prose have the majesty and terror of the sea been more effectively rendered than in the thrilling chase through an Antarctic storm in which Jack’s ship, under-manned and out-gunned, is the quarry not the hunter.

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