DESOLATION ISLAND.**
by O'BRIAN**, PATRICK:
- Used
- first
- Condition
- VG+./No dw/dj,wraps - as issued.
- ISBN 10
- 0006136664
- ISBN 13
- 9780006136668
- Seller
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About This Item
The 5th Aubrey/Maturin maritime adventure,following on from the preceding 'The Mauritius Command.' 'Master and Commander',being their debut.
Captain Jack Aubrey is in a hellfire rage with the Admiralty.Bound for Australia,his new ship "Leopard," a fifty-gunner and her skipper's pride, carries a cargo of convicts below the waterline.
Among them is a beautiful and dangerous woman.And a floating time- bomb - a killer disease which will ravage the ship from hold to wardroom.
A highly collected and prolific book author,and an early title from his 21- volume Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin epic in O'Brian's detailed and enthralling,bold style and will be an important and welcome addition to that canon.
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Synopsis
Desolation Island is a name that has been used for several islands. The largest and best known is Kerguelen Island in the Indian Ocean. Desolation Island is a novel in the Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian.
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- Bookseller
- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- rja874320
- Title
- DESOLATION ISLAND.**
- Author
- O'BRIAN**, PATRICK:
- Format/Binding
- Paperback.
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+.
- Jacket Condition
- No dw/dj,wraps - as issued.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,12mo p/back,1st edn.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0006136664
- ISBN 13
- 9780006136668
- Publisher
- LONDON.FONTANA/COLLINS,1979.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1989
- Keywords
- q52.MODERN FIRSTS2.UK,12mo p/back,1st edn.ISBN 0006136664.Jack Aubrey_Stephen Maturin_novels.Master and Commander.Post Captain.H.M.S. Surprise.The Mauritius Command.Desolation Island.Books new,used,signed,rare.
- Bookseller catalogs
- MODERN FIRSTS2;
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