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.