Thursday, November 10, 2016

Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation ***

Book 14 of the Aubrey-Maturin series is a typical entry in the back half of the sequence. The prose washes over me like a warm bath as I follow our heroes through a series of low-key adventures. The book begins and ends at basically arbitrary points in the overall story, although the end does find the Surprise headed home to England from the penal colony in Australia.

I like the title of this one.  The British envoy in the The Thirteen-Gun Salute applied the title to himself; in this book, Jack Aubrey borrows it as the name for the former Dutch ship that he sails from Batavia.

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