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"What Mr. O'Brian has created is no less than a tapestry of English life in the early
nineteenth century that is almost Dickensian in its scope.... Mr. O'Brian's language is elegant,
erudite and dense, exposing the reader to a world both high and low, encompassing honor and
tyranny, pederasty and heterosexual love and betrayal, loyalty and treason, drug addiction and
debtor's gaol, fiasco and triumph, cowardice and courage."--New York Observer

"The best novelist in the world."--Chicago Tribune

Shipwrecked on a remote island, Captain Jack Aubrey and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner
from the wreck, only to have their makeshift vessel burned in an attack by Malay pirates. Their escape
from this predicament is one that only the ingenuity of Patrick O'Brian--or Stephen Maturin--could
devise. 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.