H. M. S. Surprise - Aubrey Maturin #3

Patrick O'Brian

W. W. Norton & Company

1991

416 páginas

13h 52m

ISBN-13: 9780393307610

Third in the series of Aubrey-Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy enjoying overwhelming local superiority. But somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the prize that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams: the ships sent by Napoleon to attack the China Fleet...