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The Nutmeg of Consolation

Aubrey-Maturin Series, Book 14

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The Nutmeg of Consolation

By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
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Shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner from the wreck.

A vicious attack by Malay pirates is repulsed, but the makeshift vessel burns, and they are truly marooned. Their escape from this predicament is one that only the whimsy and ingenuity of Patrick O Brian or Stephen Maturin could devise. In command now of a new ship, the Nutmeg, Aubrey pursues his interrupted mission.

The dreadful penal colony in New South Wales, harrowingly described, is the backdrop to a diplomatic crisis provoked by Maturin s Irish temper, and to a near-fatal encounter with the wildlife of the Australian outback.

©1989 The Estate of the late Patrick O'Brian CBE (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Fiction Historical Fiction Feel-Good Pirate
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I love it that in the 14th book of the series Patrick O'Brian still has the ability to shock, intrigue and surprise. Ric Jerrom is a master reader - keeping the consistency of all the many, many different voices.

Love the unpredictability

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An education of times past in a wooden shop powered only by sails and swept along by the wind. Discover life on board and the beginnings of Australia's settlement by the British, a wild country !

Another great way to go sail the seas

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one of Patrick O'Brian's best novels from an outstanding series. wonderful story and beautifully read

one of best stories from this incredible author

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Unbelievable transportation to the mores and challenges of life at the turn of the 19th century.

Fascinating account of early Australia

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A fine piece of storytelling by O’Brian with extraordinary detail about the ship yet delivered through a fascinating narrative.

Or how they escaped shipwreck and saved a friend

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