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4.4 · 320 pages · First published 1991
“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.”
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Subjects
FictionNaval HistoryStephen Maturin (Fictitious character)Jack Aubrey (Fictitious character)Ship physiciansShip captainsNovelaHistoria navalMaturin, Stephen (Figura ficticia)Aubrey, Jack (Figura ficticia)Médicos de barcoCapitanes de barcoHistory, NavalHistorical fictionFiction, historicalGreat britain, fictionAubrey, jack (fictitious character), fictionMaturin, stephen (fictitious character), fictionFiction, action & adventureSea stories
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- Norton & Company Limited, W. W., HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Blackstone Audiobooks, Collins, Chivers Press, W.W. Norton
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- eng