Desolation Island

By: Patrick O'Brian

"[o'brian's] aubrey-maturin series, 20 novels of the royal navy in the napoleonic wars, is a masterpiece. it will outlive most of today's putative literary gems as sherlock holmes has outlived bulwer-lytton, as mark twain has outlived charles reade." —david mamet, new york timescommissioned to rescue governor bligh of bounty fame, captain jack aubrey and his friend and surgeon stephen maturin...