O'Brian, Patrick <br/><br/>
Desolation island 
Patrick O'Brian. 
 - New York :  W.W. Norton & Co.,  1991, c1978. 
 - 352 p. ;  20 cm. 
 - Aubrey & Maturin Series  Book 5 . <br/><br/> "First published in 1978 by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd."-- T.p. verso. 
<br/><br/> Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and 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 mountain seas, the Dutchman closes... 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>039330812X 
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<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>O'Br   2