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Aubrey-Maturin · Book 5

Desolation Island

by Patrick O'Brian
Published
1 January 1978
Pages
312
ISBN-13
9780007879731
Type
novel
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About this book

"Desolation Island" (1978, 312 pages) follows "The Mauritius Command" as the fifth Aubrey-Maturin novel, continuing O'Brian's immersive, period-accurate rendering of sailing, gunnery and naval medicine that readers say takes some adjustment before it clicks — and rewards patience once it does.

Key facts about Desolation Island

Patrick O'Brian wrote Desolation Island, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1978. The book has 312 pages.

We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780007879731 to find the main one.

Desolation Island is book 5 of 21 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. The series has 21 published books. However, the series starts with Master and Commander (1969). The Hundred Days is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 28 September 1998.

That series sits on our historical fiction shelf. Meanwhile, The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey is the latest published Patrick O'Brian book on file, from 2004.

About Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O'Brian (1914-2000) was a British novelist and translator best known for the Aubrey-Maturin series, twenty novels of Napoleonic-era naval fiction following Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey and his close friend, the ship's surgeon and intelligence agent Stephen Maturin. See every Patrick O'Brian book in order.

Its place in Aubrey-Maturin

Desolation Island is book 5 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows The Mauritius Command. It is followed by The Fortune of War. See the full Aubrey-Maturin reading order.

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels follow the friendship of Jack Aubrey, a bluff, brilliant, and perpetually broke Royal Navy officer, and Stephen Maturin, the ship's surgeon who is also a naturalist and, unbeknownst to most of the crew, a British intelligence agent. The two meet as strangers at a concert in Menorca in 1800 — nearly duelling before becoming friends — and the twenty novels that follow chart Jack's rise through the Napoleonic-era Navy and Stephen's parallel career gathering intelligence across…

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