In command now of a new ship, the Nutmeg , 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..
In command now of a new ship, the Nutmeg , Aubrey pursues his interrupted mission