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While fashioning a schooner out of the remains of their wrecked ship, Captain Aubrey and his crew suffer an attack by Malay pirates and must rely on the ingenuity of ship's surgeon--and intelligence agent--Stephen Maturin. Reprint.
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Characters/People edit
- Stephen: For a great captain Aubrey gets shipwrecked a lot.
- Jack Aubrey: Captain of the Surprise
- Mr Martin: Add a description of this character.
- Killick
- Mr Reade
- Dr Maturin
- Mr Richardson
- Bonden
- Captain Aubrey
- Tom Pullings
- Diane
- Mr White
- Ahmed
- Dr Redfern
- Mrs Macquarie
- Mr Adams
- Oakes
- Macmillan
- Welby
- Li Po
- Riley
- Paulton
- Miller
- Joseph
- Bennett
- Mr Seymour
- Nelson
- Macpherson
- John
- Harper
- Mrs Raffles
- Diana
- Davidge
- Wilkins
- Slade
- Mr Sowerby
- Goffin
- Brampton
- Sowerby
First Sentence edit
A hundred and fifty-seven castaways on a desert island in the South China Sea, the survivors of the wreck of HMS Diane, which had struck upon an uncharted rock and had there been shattered by a great typhoon some days later: a hundred and fifty-seven, but as they sat there round the edge of a flat bare piece of ground between high-water mark and the beginning of the forest they sounded like the full complement of a ship of the line, for this was Sunday afternoon, and the starboard watch, headed by Captain Aubrey, was engaged in a cricket-match against the Marines, under their commanding officer, Mr Welby.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 14 of 21 in Aubrey-Maturin. (standard series)
Preceded by The Thirteen-Gun Salute, and followed by The Truelove.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Patrick O'Brian (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.914
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