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Title: Desolation Island (Aubrey/Maturin #5)
Author(s): Patrick O'Brian
Paperback: 348 pages
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publication date: August 1st 2007
(first published 1977)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 000725587X
ISBN-13:
9780007255870
Book Description
Commissioned to rescue
Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his
friend, surgeon Stephen Maturin, sail the Leopard to Australia
with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous
spy- and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. With a Dutch
man-of-war to windward, the undermanned, outgunned Leopard
sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, where, in
mountainous seas, the Dutchman closes in.
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Title: Mauritius
Author(s): Theresa Rebeck
Paperback: 80 pages
Publication date: March 12th 2009
(first published 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0573660190
ISBN-13:
9780573660191
Book Description
3m, 2f / Comedy /
Interior Stamp collecting is far more risky than you think. After their
mother's death, two estranged half-sisters discover a book of rare
stamps that may include the crown jewel for collectors. One sister tries
to collect on the windfall, while the other resists for sentimental
reasons. In this gripping tale, a seemingly simple sale becomes
dangerous when three seedy, high-stakes collectors enter the sisters'
world, willing to do anything to claim the rare find as their own.
"Unsurprisingly for a writer with extensive experience in TV police
procedurals like "NYPD Blue" and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," one of
Rebeck's strengths is her skill at stitching tension into every
exchange. The five characters in Mauritius pair up and face off in
shifting configurations, the emotionally fraught edges of their twisty
encounters made all the more intriguing by the fact that items as
apparently innocuous as postage stamps fuel the friction." -Variety "One
wouldn't think that the subject of rare stamps would make for gripping,
entertaining theater, but Theresa Rebeck's Mauritius, being given its
Broadway premiere by the Manhattan Theatre Club, proves otherwise...The
sort of well-made, engrossing and unpretentious play rarely encountered
on Broadway these days, Mauritius is a welcome introduction to the fall
season." -The Hollywood Reporter.
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Title: The Mauritius Command
(Aubrey/Maturin #4)
Author(s): Patrick O'Brian
Paperback:
368 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: May 17th 1991
(first published 1977)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 039330762X
ISBN-13:
9780393307627
Book Descripption
"O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin volumes actually constitute a single
6,443-page novel, one that should have been on those lists of the
greatest novels of the 20th-century." —George Will, Washington Post
Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command—until
Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate
to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant, there to mount an
expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Réunion.
But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of
his own captains—Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and
Captain Corbett, whose severity pushes his crew to the verge of mutiny. |
