1811: 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 under-manned, outgunned Leopard sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, where, in mountainous seas, the Dutchman closes....
Desolation Island
- Details
- By: Patrick O’Brian
- Title: Desolation Island
- Series: Jack Aubrey
- First Published by: Collins
- First Published Place: UK
- First Published Format: HC
- First Published Date: 1978