num_pages: 276
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.
language: English
title: Desolation Island
titlecomplete: Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin Book 5)
characters: Stephen Maturin, Jack Aubrey
genres: Adventure, Historical, Maritime, Novels, War, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Literature, Fiction, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 14296
series: Aubrey & Maturin
publisher: Harpercollins