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Written by Patrick O'Brian - Audio book performed by Tim Pigott-Smith - Abridged Fiction - Abridgment approved by Patrick O'Brian - 3 CASSETTES - 5 hours

Publisher, Random House Audiobooks (December 1999)

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The 5th installment in the Aubrey/Maturin series.

"O'Brian is not that hard a taste to acquire, but he is very tough to shake. . . . The Aubrey/Maturin series/ is a great work." --John Ferguson, Boston Globe on the hardcover edition

"This is a work of genius, and in the face of its inevitable end, I can only think with pleasure at the now 20 volumes (of the Aubrey/Mat series) on my shelf." --BookPage, J.W. Foster, November 1999 on the hardcover edition

"After a spell in the doldrums O'Brian has presented his readers with a shining jewel. Blue at the Mizzen is an intricate, multifaceted work--one of those rare novels that actually bear up under close scrutiny." --The New York Times Book Review, Amanda Foreman on the hardcover edition

Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy--and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. With a dutch man-of-war to windward, the under-manned, out-gunned Leopard sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, where, in mountainous seas, the Dutchman closes...