Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

O'Brian, Patrick, frey50

The nutmeg of consolation / Patrick O'Brian. - New York : Norton, 1993, c1991. - 315 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

While fashioning a schooner out of the remains of their wrecked ship, Captain Aubrey and his crew suffer an attack by Malay pirates and must rely on the ingenuity of ship's surgeon--and intelligence agent--Stephen Maturin. Reprint.

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Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character)
Maturin, Stephen (Fictitious character)
Historical fiction.


Great Britain--History, Naval--19th century

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