Patrick Tull
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Fierce storms off Cape Horn have scattered Commodore Anson's squadron and sunk the Wager on Chile's rocky coast. The despised captain's callousness soon incites the survivors to drunkenness and mutiny when food stores run low and rum is in surplus. With only their wits and a small band of Indians to guide them, two young men--midshipman Jack Bryon and his friend Tobias Barrow, an alarmingly naive surgeon's mate--survive this harrowing adventure. They...
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After a dangerous tour of duty in the Great South Sea, Jack and Stephen finally return to their families in England. For Jack, the return is joyful, but for Stephen, it is heartbreaking. His wife, Diana, has left for parts unknown; his young daughter has all the symptoms of autism. To escape these painful circumstances, Stephen joins Jack on a bizarre decoy mission to the lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea.
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Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 10
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Captain Jack Aubrey, accompanied by ship's surgeon and intelligence operative Stephen Maturin, sails for Cape Horn, assigned to intercept an American frigate that is disrupting the British whaling trade.