Desolation Island
30 November 2020
Territory Rights — Worldwide excluding Canada and the British Commonwealth.
Description
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 undermanned, outgunned Leopard sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, where, in mountain seas, the Dutchman closes.
Reviews
"Good history…espionage, romance…and an action at sea that for sheer descriptive power can match anything in sea-fiction." — Christopher Wordsworth, Guardian
"I have been enthralled since reading Master and Commander. Now, having just finished Desolation Island, I find myself curiously anxious to slow down. True, [more] volumes await me, but what I have read is so rich and splendid that I need to ponder and digest." — Robert Massie