The Nutmeg of Consolation

by Patrick O'Brian Narrated by Patrick Tull

Overview

When last seen, Jack and Stephen had been shipwrecked on a desert island in the glittering South China Sea. The Nutmeg of Consolation opens as the castaways fashion a makeshift vessel from the wreckage, only to have it destroyed in a fiery attack by Malay pirates. Only the wondrous ingenuity of Stephen, along with the unexpected appearance of one of Jack's oldest allies, leads them to escape-and to dubious safety in a penal colony at New South Wales.

Editorial Reviews

Daily Telegraph - William Waldegrave

"Pure gold. . . . O’Brian is a man whose books you would dare to give to Sterne; whose conversation would have delighted Coleridge. It is his misfortune, but our great good luck, that he is our contemporary, and not theirs."

Kevin Myers

"O'Brian's sheer brilliance as a writer constantly dazzles."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940177736853
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	03/04/2011
Series:	Aubrey/Maturin , #14
Edition description:	Unabridged

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