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

Publisher, Random House Audiobooks (August 2001)

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"The best historical novels ever written." --The New York Times

"Although O'Brian is ingenious at devising new adventures, it is the richness of his characters which justifies his readers' continuing enthusiasm." --The New Yorker

"Always gripping. And everything -- skies and seas and ports and creatures -- is vivid and sensuously present." --A.S. Byatt

While fashioning a schooner out of the remains of their wrecked ship, Captain Aubrey and his crew suffer an attack by Malay pirates and must rely on the ingenuity of ship's surgeon--and intelligence agent--Stephen Maturin.