Author: Patrick O’BrianPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007429363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
On Desolation Island, with the known world out of reach, uneasy alliances are sometimes forged...
Desolation Island (Vol. Book 5) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
Author: Patrick O'BrianPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393088529
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
"The relationship [between Aubrey and Maturin]...is about the best thing afloat....For Conradian power of description and sheer excitement there is nothing in naval fiction to beat the stern chase as the outgunned Leopard staggers through mountain waves in icy latitudes to escape the Dutch seventy-four." —Stephen Vaughan, Observer Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy—and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. With a Dutch man-of-war to windward, the undermanned, outgunned Leopard sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, where, in mountain seas, the Dutchman closes.
Desolation Island
Author: Adolfo García OrtegaPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446468240
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
As the twentieth century draws to a close, a ship heads for Punta Arenas at Chile's southern tip. On board is Oliver Griffin, who is fascinated by the island and spends his life drawing intricate maps of it. He is on an unusual quest, inspired by a photograph of his grandparents embracing a strange automaton that now lives in the Punta Arenas museum. This fearsome metal warrior is a sixteenth-century robot from a proposed mechanical army, commissioned to guard the straight against the English. It was discovered on the island by a grieving woman scouring the archipelago for the bodies of her shipwrecked husband and son, and is now the curious axis around which countless stories spin, surrounded by the terrible yet mesmerizing sea...
Author: John NunnDesolation Island
Author: Patrick O'BrianPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0006499244
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin sail to Australia with a hold full of convicts, including a dangerous spy, while the crew is decimated by disease their ship, the "Leopard," is pursued by a Dutch man-of-war
Desolation Island
Author: Patrick O'BrianPublisher:
ISBN: 9780754024125
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
First published in 1978 a historical maritime adventure featuring Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin, who are bound for Australia with a cargo of convicts, among them a beautiful but dangerous spy and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. By the author of HMS SURPRISE and POST CAPTAIN.
Desolation Island
Author: Patrick O'BrianPublisher: Fontana Press
ISBN: 9780006155867
Category : Fiction in English
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
First published in 1978 a historical maritime adventure featuring Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin, who are bound for Australia with a cargo of convicts, among them a beautiful but dangerous spy and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. By the author of HMS SURPRISE and POST CAPTAIN.
Sea Kayak Desolation Sound and the Sunshine Coast
Author: Heather HarbordPublisher: Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781894765534
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This paddling guide to Desolation Sound and the Strait of Georgia provides historical travel information on a part of the Inner Passage between Vancouver Island and the BC mainland. Follow the Marine Trail up the east coast of Vancouver Island with perhaps a digression to Hornby or Denman islands. Or tackle the savage inflow-outflow winds of Jervis Inlet to reach the jewel of Princess Louisa Inlet.
Desolation Sound
Author: Marion C. JensenPublisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460271998
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This book is about recovery from loss. In the aftermath of a death, Ann Patterson's family is becoming unglued. To save it, the hot-tempered librarian splurges on a trip to Desolation Sound. The trip turns out far different from her expectations. With the help of a ghostly adviser, Ann must face her own shortcomings and get a grip on the realities of her life.
Voyage to Desolation Island
Author: Jean-Paul KauffmannPublisher: Harvill Secker
ISBN:
Category : Kerguelen Island
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Jean-Paul Kauffmann, the author and literary explorer, follows in the footsteps of the eighteenth-century sailor Yves-Joseph Kerguelen, who gave his name to the archipelago he discovered in the southern Indian Ocean. It remains part of the French Southern and Antarctic Territories. When he made his discover, Kerguelen was convinced he had found Hell and could not bring himself to go ashore. It was left to Captain Cook two years later to set foot on the principal landmass, to name it Desolation Island and its grey beach Christmas Harbour, and to describe the towering black arch that would later astound every sailor who saw it.Where better than in this isolated spot to plumb the depths of one's own solitude? A truly desolate place, littered with the abandoned, wind-and-rain-lashed remnants of failed expeditions; its weather treacherous, capricious, unforgiving. But there are those who have adapted to the harsh conditions of Desolation Island as successfully as its unique flora and fauna. Why are there so many scientist here? What are they up to? And what is the shadow hanging over the reputation of Yves-Joseph Kerguelen? How did he disgrace himself at ? These are but some of the questions Kauffmann asks as he explores on of the loneliest points on the globe in his own quest to see for himself and famous arch of Kerguelen.
