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Desolation Island

Patrick O'Brian

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In this fifth novel of the Aubrey/Maturin series, Captain Jack Aubrey is commissioned to sail the HMS Leopard to Australia to rescue Governor Bligh (the former captain of the HMS Bounty). Jack and his friend, the surgeon Stephen Maturin, sail with a hold full of convicts. Among the prisoners is a beautiful and dangerous spy, as well as a lethal outbreak of gaol fever that decimates the crew. The undermanned, outgunned Leopard is then pursued by a Dutch man-of-war into the freezing, mountainous seas of the Antarctic.