description: 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. A penal colony by charter, in fact a grim outpost of legalized slavery, conditions there exacerbate Maturin's Irish temper and nearly provoke a diplomatic crisis. And an excursion into the bush ends in a close encounter of the final kind.
language: English
title: The Nutmeg of Consolation
titlecomplete: The Nutmeg of Consolation (Aubrey/Maturin Book 14)
characters: Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin, Patrick Colman
genres: Historical, Audiobook, Military Fiction, Literature, Adventure, Maritime, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 9321
series: Aubrey & Maturin
publisher: Books on Tape