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Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780006499299 ISBN: 0006499295 Label: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: July 10, 1997 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Studio: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: Shipwrecked! When Captain Aubrey and his crew go aground on a remote island, they labor to construct a seaworthy schooner from the wreckage (taking breaks, of course, to play cricket.) Their subsequent adventures lead them to the dreaded penal colony at Botany Bay, and then, as always, back to sea. Product Description: The fourteenth novel in the classic Aubrey-Maturin series finds Aubrey and Maturin shipwrecked, harassed by pirates and then in the brutal penal colonies of New South Wales. Patrick O'Brian is regarded by many as the greatest living historical novelist writing in English. In The Nutmeg of Consolation, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin begin stranded on an uninhabited island in the Dutch East Indies, attacked by ferocious Malay pirates. They contrive their escape, but after a stay in Batavia and a change of ship, they are caught up in a night chase in the fiercely tidal waters and then embroiled in the much more insidious conflicts of the terrifying penal settlements of New South Wales. It is one of O'Brian's most accomplished and gripping books. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Seems like a place holder to get to the next in the seriesNot the best in the series. Seems like a placeholder to get to the next story. Not much happens. Fifteenth in the series: Truelove (O'Brian, Patrick, Aubrey/Maturin Novels, 15.) Rating:  - great seriesI love this series, I can't stop reading them. Well written, and descriptive, they really take you to a different world. Rating: - Aubrey and Maturin escape shipwreck and head to AustraliaPatrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels continue to defy convention. In form and structure, the novels really aren't separate stories, but instead consist of separate episodes within a much larger narrative. While with most series of novels, the author builds each novel as a self-contained narrative, with each story building to its own particular climax. Not so with these novels, which often end on a point of minor transition but hardly the high point of the novel. "The Nutmeg of ... Read More Rating:  - great series of booksIf you are interested in sailing, British naval history, or the high seas... then this is a great historical fiction series. The single movie doesn't really do justice to this excellent series of novels. Rating:  - The Inaction Outweighs the ActionWho is Paulton and why did Maturin want to visit him? Who were the "men and women on the lists?" Who is Padeen and why is Maturin so particularly concerned about him? Is Padeen also known as Coleman? Why would O'Brien give us a hundred pages with nothing more than the sights, sounds, and smells of Botany Bay, unconnected to any story line? What did O'Brien feel he contributed to the story with the addition of the island children to the story? If the essence of the writer's craft is to create ... Read More |
