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 undermanned, outgunned Leopard sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, where, in mountain seas, the Dutchman closes...
- ISBN10 0393037053
- ISBN13 9780393037050
- Publish Date 29 March 1995 (first published 1 March 1979)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 18 February 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 336
- Language English