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Desolation Island
- Aubrey-Maturin Series, Book 5
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin, Book 5
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure
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- I.F.Coyle
- 14-04-13
Another winner
Having read all these books (twice) over the years, I still find them endlessly fascinating, and Mr Jerrom's reading has added immensely to my enjoyment of them all.
Desolation Island starts off slowly, as many in this series do, but builds to a clever, exciting (go on, I'll say it, "rip-roaring", but I'm drawing the line at swashbuckling!) climax with everything you could wish for in a sea-adventure: sea-chases, battles, plague, near-mutiny, a spectacular wreck on a desert island. All seen through the contrasting eyes of our two very different, but complementary heroes, Stephen Maturin and "Lucky" Jack Aubrey.
Excellent...really didn't want it to end. I've already downloaded the next one. Why no "Mauritius Command" though?
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- Caro64
- 13-12-18
Rich, multi-layered, action-packed..
So much to praise! The rich cast of characters; the multiple and expertly managed storylines - some of which will resonate for several books to come; the thrills and dramas of the voyage; Stephen’s deadly and delicate intelligence work... and Babbington’s Newfoundland dog. Wonderful stuff!
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- Claes-jan W.
- 14-10-20
Ric Jerrom deserves an oscar
Ric Jerrom deserves an oscar for narrating the complete Aubrey/Maturin works
There must be an English award for best narrating !
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- John
- 14-01-18
Good story well told
Another enjoyable tale by Patrick O’BrIan, well read, bringing the characters to life.
I am fascinated by this period of naval history since discovering Hornblower many years ago.
The book would appeal to people like myself but you need to read them in sequence as I am attempting to do.
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- Mr S.C. Jeffery
- 22-07-15
Another great tale
What did you like most about Desolation Island?
With all Patrick O'Brian books you feel that you are in the centre of the action, and this one is no exception. You are rooting for our heroes throughout the whole story.
What did you like best about this story?
The story builds on the existing back history of "Lucky" Jack Aubrey and his particular friend Stephen Maturin. The book tells the tale so well you could almost smell the sea salt in the air.
What does Ric Jerrom bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
Ric Jerrom narration is brilliant, thoroughly consistent throughout not only this book but across other books of the series.
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Patrick O'Brian tells his tales so well that you have trouble turning it off, I have often found myself listening well into the night.
Any additional comments?
This story carries on the series so well that I didn't want it to finish, and had bought and downloaded the next book so it could carry on. Absolutely brilliant.
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- sinbad4england
- 09-07-21
getting even more long winded.......
as the series goes on so does the long windedness (especially of Stephen Machurin). I miss the gung ho adventures of the early novels, still I'm sticking with them a while longer because Ric Jerron makes an excellent job of narration and so helping to 'put up' with the occasional boring bits !
The description of the sea and of the ships/boats/briggs/sloops etc etc transports you along with the characters to far and wide !
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- L. Kelly
- 21-11-16
Wonderful
Possibly my favourite Aubrey/Maturin novel, read very well by Jerrom. The various struggles of the leopard's crew make for a splendid story.
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- Viv
- 09-11-16
Top man
All of this series is unmissable. Following the characters development has been an unreserved treat. This recording is well made and good listening.
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- Alex Bowling
- 08-03-16
best on series
best in the series. the long chase down to the Cape will have you sweating for our likely duo
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- Tom
- 30-06-20
Ghastly twaddle
Jayne Are goes to sea. Awful stuff. Compare this to CS Forester and it pales into the romcom it is.
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- Jefferson
- 15-06-15
Psychological Age of Sail Adventure
Desolation Island (1978), the fifth novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, begins like the fourth one, depicting the home life of Captain Jack Aubrey, but now his situation appears to be improved, due to his successful completion of the Mauritius mission (complete with juicy prize ships) in the fifth novel, so that he's paid off the debts of his mother-in-law-from-hell and has enough money to add extensions to his house and even to lend 780 pounds to his bosom buddy Stephen Maturin. Jack's twin daughters are looking like little girls instead of like wizened aliens, and his infant son is healthy. Wife Sophie is worried, however, because Jack ashore tends to be too trusting, with the result that he's being cheated out of money by card sharps and a dubious silver refining venture. As a sailor aptly puts it later in the novel, "When we're ashore, sometimes we're a little at sea." Luckily for Jack, he's got a new commission: he's to captain the Leopard, a renovated fourth class war ship, some 15,000 miles to Botany Bay, Australia, there to deal with a delicate situation involving Captain Bligh, who has suffered from a second mutiny after the famous Bounty incident.
Stephen is in bad condition because Diana Villiers has yet again jilted him by going to America with another man and because his laudanum regimen has begun to debilitate him, but Jack's mission might get him out of his funk. Because an American friend of Diana's, Mrs. Louisa Wogan, has just been arrested for spying on England and will be transported to Botany Bay aboard the Leopard, Stephen will join the voyage in both his official role as ship's surgeon and his covert role as intelligence agent, and the prospect of encountering interesting flora and fauna in the southern hemisphere appeals to him. And of course Jack and Stephen enjoy each other's company aboard ship, whether making good music with their violin and cello or good conversation when duty permits.
Over their voyage of thousands of miles, Jack and Stephen have to deal with challenging matters relating to their respective duties, Jack captaining a ship full of 340 men, a score of transportation prisoners (including, much to Jack's discomfort, a few women), and an untrustworthy officer, all the while being on the look out for enemy ships (England still being at war with Bonaparte's France and the Dutch) and, after a certain point, "ice islands," while Stephen has to keep the people on the ship in good health while withdrawing from laudanum and plumbing Mrs. Wogan and befriending her lover to see how deep her espionage runs. Though the book has fewer exciting violent action scenes than earlier novels in the series, there are two wonderfully suspenseful, extended passages that offer unique challenges to Jack and his men (O'Brien is skilled at finding ever new types of opponents, battles, and disasters for his characters without repeating pattern or outcome).
This novel has at least as much psychological exploration and action as the others in the series so far, about drug addiction ("habituation"), superstition, love, leadership, and espionage in situations of close proximity to other men (as on a ship for over a year) or intense activity (as in battles or wrecks). Stephen's diary is full of insights on himself and the people around him. He worries that his manipulation of people for his intelligence work could corrupt his character. And he is able to tell Mrs. Wogan (from first-hand experience) that love involves "the abdication of the critical sense."
O'Brien varies his narration by adding the ship's log, Jack's letters to Sophie, and Stephen's diary entries to his basic third person narration limited to Jack or Stephen's points of view. There is little here from the female point of view, apart from one letter by Mrs. Wogan to Diana (that we take the liberty of reading when Stephen does), and although the American woman's laughter is large and her lover says of her that "the word possession is so very foolish when it is applied to a woman as entire as Louisa," the novel is, like the others so far, male-centered.
In addition to developing the ever-worsening relations between the USA and the UK, implying that war will break out in future books in the series, Desolation Island offers plenty of fascinating depictions of flora and especially fauna, as of myriad penguins flying under the water as they chase fish chasing shrimp while they themselves are being chased by seals being chased by killer whales, or as of, 12' wing-span albatrosses gracefully at home in ocean gales, and a sublime 100' blue whale. And of course the novel features O'Brien's wonderfully precise, beautiful and bracing prose of "the splendid, empty sea":
"The long, even, fairly heavy swell lifted him and set him down at a measured pace, so that sometimes his horizon was no more than three miles away, and sometimes he saw an enormous disc of ocean, a cold uneasy sea, endless miles of desolation, a comfortless element, in which he was at home."
Reader Ric Jerrom continues to be O'Brien, Jack, and Stephen for me; I'll continue listening to any books in the series read by him. And I'll continue enjoying and recommending the series (starting with the first novel about Jack and Stephen, Master and Commander) to readers who like psychological historical nautical fiction. Each book so far has been of a different shape and texture and mood and pattern, all so far being unified by the complex and appealing characters of Jack and Stephen and by their rich friendship.
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- Mark O'Connell
- 31-05-21
No German flutes in the Ward Room, if you please.
I love Rick Jerome, he is the narrator of the world, the true apotehosis of a story teller, for all over, never has such a man read such works!
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- PJ
- 04-05-21
The Unlucky Ship
Jack and Stephens relationship comes under great strain as they transport convict prisoners to Botany Bay in New Holland.
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- Dr. Terence M. Dwyer
- 29-09-20
Too good!
It won’t help you go to sleep if you wake up during the night. Excellent reading and accents.
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- Taylor Britton
- 08-01-20
great naval action
even more dynamic naval action and mechanics than the last book, but now I just wish I could play it as a resource management heavy age-of-sail videogame.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-09-15
excellent series
Again I love the Albury Machurin series of books, reside permanently on my phone and listened to several times a year.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-09-14
Thrilling and masterfully narrated.
Who was your favorite character and why?
The main protagonists Jack and Steven are my favourites, often I thought: " That's Jack for you, he would say that" or when Steven says something particularly droll... I laugh out loud!
Believable characters.
Have you listened to any of Ric Jerrom’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Having listened to the previous 9 books and looking forward to a whole lot more, The combination of Patric O'Brian's work and Ric Jerrom's voicing makes this an great series to listen to.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
The thrilling chase by the dutch 74 gun ship, murderously on the tail of Capt. Aubrey's relatively smaller and slower ship, and the most heart racing outcome of that scene. I still see it clearly in my mind.