01530cam a2200301 4500 332836422 TxAuBib 20170101120000.0 781222m19781991||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 78066244 //r932 9780393308129 039330812X 9780393037050 0393037053 (OCoLC)44024595 TxAuBib O'Brian, Patrick, 1914- Desolation Island / Patrick O'Brian. New York : W.W. Norton, 1978-1991. 325 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Captain Bligh (yes, the infamous captain from the Bounty) needs to be rescued, and the Royal Navy has the perfect man for the job: Captain Jack Aubrey. With his friend and cloak-and-dagger expert Stephen Maturin in tow, Aubrey sets off for Australia. Several factors, including an attractive spy and a small-scale epidemic, conspire to change his plans, and before long his frigate is being pursued into Antarctic waters by a Dutch man-of-war. Five installments into the series, the Aubrey-Maturin story remains (to quote The Observer) "the best thing afloat since Horatio Hornblower.". 20170101. Aubrey, Jack Fictitious character Fiction. Maturin, Stephen (Fictitious character) Fiction. Great Britain History, Naval 19th century Fiction. Historical fiction. Sea stories.