The second book Patrick O’Brian wrote about the sea and a brilliant sequel to The Golden Ocean.

Follows the adventures of two young seamen who are shipwrecked along the coast of Chile in 1740, and are driven to drink and mutiny by a ruthless captain.

"The old master has us again in the palm of his hand." —Los Angeles Times Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both th

Commodore (late Admiral) Anson's fatefaul circumnavigation of the globe in 1740, wherein Anson and his men encounter disaster, disease, and astonishing success,

The sixteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series, and Patrick O'Brian's first bestseller in the United States. At the outset of this adventure filled with disa