{"product_id":"the-nutmeg-of-consolation-9781324020547","title":"The Nutmeg of Consolation","description":"\u003cp\u003eShipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the \u003cem\u003eDiane\u003c\/em\u003e fashion a schooner from the wreck. A vicious attack by Malay pirates is repulsed, but the makeshift vessel burns, and they are truly marooned. Their escape from this predicament is one that only the whimsy and ingenuity of Patrick O'Brian--or Stephen Maturin--could devise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn command now of a new ship, the \u003cem\u003eNutmeg\u003c\/em\u003e, Aubrey pursues his interrupted mission. The dreadful penal colony in New South Wales, harrowingly described, is the backdrop to a diplomatic crisis provoked by Maturin's Irish temper, and to a near-fatal encounter with the wildlife of the Australian outback.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324020547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336","brand":"Patrick O'Brian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42021793202357,"sku":"9781324020547","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_7d8b28ea-d7a1-42a7-a2cb-b28de9ebd7f9.jpg?v=1649300138","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-nutmeg-of-consolation-9781324020547","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}