Aubrey-Maturin · Book 5
Desolation Island
- Published
- 1 January 1978
- Pages
- 312
- ISBN-13
- 9780007879731
- Type
- novel
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.
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007255870
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780812870664
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780006499244