The Nutmeg of Consolation: (Book 14) (Aubrey/Maturin Series) (Paperback)
Amazon.com Review
Shipwrecked! When Captain Aubrey and his crew go aground on a remote island, they labor to construct a seaworthy schooner from the wreckage (taking breaks, of course, to play cricket.) Their subsequent adventures lead them to the dreaded penal colony at Botany Bay, and then, as always, back to sea.
From Publishers Weekly
Readers will welcome the reappearance here of elegant Stephen Maturin, one hero of O’Brian’s excellent 19th-century seafarer series. Maturin is a ship’s doctor, naturalist, spy, musician, ex-opium eater and, we’re reminded here, terrific swordsman. His “brother” is Capt. Jack Aubrey, RN, MP, popular hero for his success against Napoleon, less introspective but as subtly drawn as Maturin and as avid a musician. Last seen in The Thirteen-Gun Salute the two were shipwrecked on a barren isle in the South China Sea. After a bitter fight with Dyaks and Malays they reach Batavia, where Governor Raffles gives Aubrey the eponymic Dutch sl (more…)
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pure O’Brian
You just get lost in the prose and the detail. Aubrey and Maturin continue their adventure in the South China Sea.
3.0 out of 5 stars
For fans of the series only
This 14th installment of the Aubrey-Maturin series finds our heroes shipwrecked, rescued, and then off to refit their ship at the notorious penal colony of Botany Bay.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Best
I have read the entire series from Master and Commander to #21, The Unfinished Voyage, three times. I am a voracious reader and this is the best series I have ever read, no…
3.0 out of 5 stars
Seems like a place holder to get to the next in the series
Not the best in the series. Seems like a placeholder to get to the next story. Not much happens.
Fifteenth in the series: Truelove (O’Brian, Patrick,…
4.0 out of 5 stars
great series
I love this series, I can’t stop reading them. Well written, and descriptive, they really take you to a different world.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Aubrey and Maturin escape shipwreck and head to Australia
Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin novels continue to defy convention. In form and structure, the novels really aren’t separate stories, but instead consist of separate episodes…
5.0 out of 5 stars
great series of books
If you are interested in sailing, British naval history, or the high seas… then this is a great historical fiction series.
1.0 out of 5 stars
The Inaction Outweighs the Action
Who is Paulton and why did Maturin want to visit him? Who were the “men and women on the lists?” Who is Padeen and why is Maturin so particularly concerned about him?
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great as always but turning into chap books
The Nutmeg is as good as O’Brian gets in his writing, plotting, character development, sense of place and time, all the things that make a great great historical novelist…
5.0 out of 5 stars
Aubrey and Maturin’s South Pacific Sojourn Continues
“The Nutmeg of Consulation” opens with Captain Jack Aubrey and the surviving crew of HMS Diane playing cricket on a deserted, lush tropical East Indies island.