The Nutmeg of Consolation, Patrick OBrian
The Nutmeg of Consolation, Patrick OBrian
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The Nutmeg of Consolation

Author: Patrick O'Brian

Narrator: Tim Pigott-Smith

Abridged: 5 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/07/2001

Synopsis

We join Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, captain in the Royal Navy and surgeon/intelligence agent respectively, where we left them at the end of The Thirteen Gun Salute: shipwrecked on a remote Dutch East Indies island.

Employing great enterprise, Aubrey secures a new ship and sails for Australia. A penal colony by charter, in fact a grim outpost of legalized slavery, conditions there exacerbate Maturin's Irish temper and nearly provoke a diplomatic crisis. And an excursion into the bush ends in a close encounter of the final kind.

About The Author

Patrick O’Brian’s many novels include Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, and The Unknown Shore, in addition to twenty volumes in the highly respected Aubrey/Maturin series. O’Brian wrote acclaimed biographies of Pablo Picasso and Sir Joseph Banks and translated many works from the French, among them the novels and memoirs of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Lacouture’s biography of Charles de Gaulle. Mr. O’Brian died in January 2000.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Captain Sir Roddy, R.N. (Ret.) on March 11, 2010

This, the 14th volume in Patrick O'Brian's brilliant Aubrey-Maturin canon, is one of my absolute favorites of the twenty completed novels in this wonderful Napoleonic wars seafaring series. "The Nutmeg of Consolation" is a page-turner from page one on. We join Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin......more

Goodreads review by Clemens on December 20, 2021

Read this book in 2009, and its the 14th beautiful volume of the great "Aubrey/ Maturin" series. In this tale Captain Jack Aubrey, after his former ship "Diane" was shipwrecked at the Dutch East Indies, but thanks to the ingenuity by Maturin, they have now this new ship the "Nutmeg", and they are set......more

Goodreads review by Wolfgang on June 20, 2017

Intelligently written. Good story. Interesting characters. Unsure about the characters, they seem a little bit to complex for sailors.........more

Goodreads review by Craig on July 08, 2013

SPOILERS BELOW. This particular edition to the series may well have been entitled "When Maturin, Cannibals and Platypuses Attack." This (and the previous book in the series) is rather meandering and doesn't seem to have much in the way of a concrete objective in terms of where the author wanted to ta......more

Goodreads review by K.M. on April 25, 2013

A little slower and little more self-indulgent than some of the previous entries, but a delight from start to finish, as always. The early part, on the island, put me in mind of Far Side of the World (only better than what we find in that installment), and the return to India (which was very enjoyab......more

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