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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10039330812X
ISBN-139780393308129
eBay Product ID (ePID)9038793064
Product Key Features
Book TitleDesolation Island
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSea Stories, Action & Adventure, Historical
Publication Year1991
FeaturesReprint
GenreFiction
AuthorPatrick O'Brian
Book SeriesAubrey/Maturin Novels Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight9.9 Oz
Item Length8.7 in
Item Width5.3 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsI have been enthralled since reading Master and Commander. Now, having just finished Desolation Island, I find myself curiously anxious to slow down. True, nine volumes await me, but what I have read is so rich and splendid that I need to ponder and digest., I fell in love with his writing straightaway, at first with Master and Commander. It wasn't primarily the Nelson and Napoleonic period, more the human relationships. ...And of course having characters isolated in the middle of the goddamn sea gives more scope. ...It's about friendship, camaraderie. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin always remind me a bit of Mick and me., O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin volumes actually constitute a single 6,443-page novel, one that should have been on those lists of the greatest novels of the 20th century., The Aubrey-Maturin series... far beyond any episodic chronicle, ebbs and flows with the timeless tide of character and the human heart., The best historical novels ever written... On every page Mr. O'Brian reminds us with subtle artistry of the most important of all historical lessons: that times change but people don't, that the griefs and follies and victories of the men and women who were here before us are in fact the maps of our own lives., [O'Brian's] Aubrey-Maturin series, 20 novels of the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars, is a masterpiece. It will outlive most of today's putative literary gems as Sherlock Holmes has outlived Bulwer-Lytton, as Mark Twain has outlived Charles Reade., Good history, fascinating erudition, espionage, romance, fever in the hold, a wreck in lost latitudes, and an action at sea that for sheer descriptive power can match anything in sea fiction., I haven't read novels [in the past ten years] except for all of the Patrick O'Brian series. It was, unfortunately, like tripping on heroin. I started on those books and couldn't stop., I have been enthralled since reading Master and Commander . Now, having just finished Desolation Island , I find myself curiously anxious to slow down. True, nine volumes await me, but what I have read is so rich and splendid that I need to ponder and digest., It has been something of a shock to find myself--an inveterate reader of girl books--obsessed with Patrick O'Brian's Napoleonic-era historical novels... What keeps me hooked are the evolving relationships between Jack and Stephen and the women they love., I devoured Patrick O'Brian's 20-volume masterpiece as if it had been so many tots of Jamaica grog.
Dewey Edition22
Series Volume Number5
Dewey Decimal823.914
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisCommissioned 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 undermanned, outgunned Leopard sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, where, in mountain seas, the Dutchman closes., "The relationship [between Aubrey and Maturin]...is about the best thing afloat....For Conradian power of description and sheer excitement there is nothing in naval fiction to beat the stern chase as the outgunned Leopard staggers through mountain waves in icy latitudes to escape the Dutch seventy-four." --Stephen Vaughan, Observer, "The relationship [between Aubrey and Maturin]...is about the best thing afloat....For Conradian power of description and sheer excitement there is nothing in naval fiction to beat the stern chase as the outgunned Leopard staggers through mountain waves in icy latitudes to escape the Dutch seventy-four."--Stephen Vaughan, Observer
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- 13. Okt. 2021
Adventure and a slight romance on the frozen seas
A wonderful continuation of the Aubrey-Maturin series, with an expanded role for Dr. Maturin. You may never forget the unique trip to the very remote Desolation Island or the horrific description of the loss of a Dutch three decker.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 16. Jul. 2019
Not the best in the series
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- 05. Feb. 2020
Great
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- 19. Aug. 2020
Great story
Another fascinating Aubrey - Maturin story! Working my way through the series!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 11. Jun. 2024
Perfect!
Perfect!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 02. Nov. 2016
Swash-Buckling adventure that doesn't buckle!
Generally, I find history as usually written, boring, but not this series. Beautifully written and edited, as only the English seem to do. Every few years, I reread the entire series, and can't find them all at my library. I have a few more to buy, and then I will have the entire collection. Great writing, giving a background of Great Britain and the British Navy in the 1800s. Adventure wrapped around a core of history. Plenty of action, too!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
