Description
Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubreys crew and the sudden dimming of Aubreys career prospects in a peacetime navy. When the Surprise is nearly sunk on her way to South Americawhere Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert her independence from Spainthe delay occasioned by repairs reaps a harvest of strange consequences.
The South American expedition is a desperate affair; and in the end Jacks bold initiative to strike at the vastly superior Spanish fleet precipitates a spectacular naval action that will determine both Chiles fate and his own.
Author: Patrick OBrian
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/29/2022
Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #20
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.56w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9781324035275
Language: English
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