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The Nutmeg of Consolation is the fourteenth historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by British author Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1991. The story is set during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 . Building a schooner on an island in the South China Sea as food supplies grow scant, Aubrey and his shipmates are attacked by ...
- Patrick O'Brian
- 1991
Jul 17, 1993 · _The Nutmeg of Consolation_ continues Aubrey's voyage into the southern hemisphere that began with _The Thirteen Gun Salute_, the Suprise sailing in and around Indonesia, eventually docking in Sydney. While I recommend reading the Aubrey/Maturin series in order, many of the books can be read out of sequence.
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- Patrick O'Brian
- Patrick O'Brian
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The Nutmeg of Consolation is the fourteenth book in the Aubrey-Maturin series of novels by Patrick O'Brian. Its opening chapter continues directly from the ending of the previous novel in the series, The Thirteen-Gun Salute . . The Nutmeg of Consolation opens with Aubrey and his crew shipwrecked on a remote island in the South China Sea ...
Jun 28, 2022 · "The Nutmeg of Consolation" ranges wide across the South Pacific, from Java and Singapore to Sydney and New South Wales. As usual, Patrick O'Brian's prose uses archaic words and some phrasing that totally transport the reader back to the 18th century (and help one build a vocabulary).
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- Patrick O'Brian
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Jan 1, 2001 · In The Nutmeg of Consolation you get shipwrecks, pirates and duels fought for honor. With content like that, some might expect a dime-store novel in The Nutmeg of Consolation, but when it's Patrick "the Jane Austen of historical fiction" O'Brian, you get treated to high-quality writing. A literary adventure, if you will!
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May 23, 1995 · The Nutmeg of Consolation opens as the castaways fashion a makeshift vessel from the wreckage, only to have it destroyed in a fiery attack by Malay pirates. Only the wondrous ingenuity of Stephen, along with the unexpected appearance of one of Jack's oldest allies, leads them to escape-and to dubious safety in a penal colony at New South Wales.
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- Patrick OBrian, Patrick O'Brian
About The Nutmeg of Consolation. We join Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, captain in the Royal Navy and surgeon/intelligence agent respectively, where we left them at the end of The Thirteen Gun Salute: shipwrecked on a remote Dutch East Indies island. Employing great enterprise, Aubrey secures a new ship and sails for Australia.
