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Tradotto da: Paola Merla
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Dopo il naufragio su un'isola deserta del mare Cinese meridionale, e un violento attacco dei pirati malesi nei pressi di Giava, il capitano Jack Aubrey, in compagnia dell'inseparabile Stephen Maturin, amico, medico, naturalista, nonché agente segreto, raggiunge finalmente il porto di Batavia per proseguire la sua missione contro la nave francese Cornélie. Le numerose peripezie della spedizione porteranno Aubrey e Maturin non solo all'appuntamento con il nemico, ma anche all'insperato ritorno sull'amata Surprise, a bordo della quale continueranno il loro viaggio alla volta dell'Australia, fino al Nuovo Galles del Sud, dove l'incontaminata bellezza del paesaggio occulta come un velo gli orrori della famigerata colonia penale di Botany Bay.
- ISBN: 885025945X
- Casa Editrice: TEA
- Pagine: 350
- Data di uscita: 28-01-2021
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This, the 14th volume in Patrick O'Brian's brilliant Aubrey-Maturin canon, is one of my absolute favorites of the twenty completed novels in this wonderful Napoleonic wars seafaring series. "The Nutmeg of Consolation" is a page-turner from page one on. We join Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin Leggi tutto
Read this book in 2009, and its the 14th beautiful volume of the great "Aubrey/ Maturin" series. In this tale Captain Jack Aubrey, after his former ship "Diane" was shipwrecked at the Dutch East Indies, but thanks to the ingenuity by Maturin, they have now this new ship the "Nutmeg", and they are set Leggi tutto
Intelligently written. Good story. Interesting characters. Unsure about the characters, they seem a little bit to complex for sailors...
SPOILERS BELOW. This particular edition to the series may well have been entitled "When Maturin, Cannibals and Platypuses Attack." This (and the previous book in the series) is rather meandering and doesn't seem to have much in the way of a concrete objective in terms of where the author wanted to ta Leggi tutto
A little slower and little more self-indulgent than some of the previous entries, but a delight from start to finish, as always. The early part, on the island, put me in mind of Far Side of the World (only better than what we find in that installment), and the return to India (which was very enjoyab Leggi tutto
The one with the lady pirate, the cannibals, Australia, and the platypus. A very Stephen-centric novel, but without the spying and intrigue. Lots of interesting info about the New South Wales section of Australia, and a creepy new fact about the cuddly platypus.
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