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The Nutmeg of Consolation Paperback / softback - 1997
by Patrick O'Brian
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- Title The Nutmeg of Consolation
- Author Patrick O'Brian
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 338
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Not Avail, London
- Date July 10, 1997
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780006499299
- ISBN 9780006499299 / 0006499295
- Dewey Decimal Code 823.914
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A hundred and fifty-seven castaways on a desert island in the South China Sea, the survivors of the wreck of HMS Diane, which had struck upon an uncharted rock and had there been shattered by a great typhoon some days later: a hundred and fifty-seven, but as they sat there round the edge of a flat bare piece of ground between high-water mark and the beginning of the forest they sounded like the full complement of a ship of the line, for this was Sunday afternoon, and the starboard watch, headed by Captain Aubrey, was engaged in a cricket-match against the Marines, under their commanding officer, Mr Welby.