The journey of the Diane encompasses a great and satisfying diversity of adventures.
Maturin climbs the Thousand Steps of the sacred crater of the orangutans; a killer typhoon catches Aubrey and his crew trying to work the Diane off a reef; and in the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang a classic duel of intelligence agents unfolds: the French envoys, well entrenched in the Sultan\'s good graces, against the savage cunning of Stephen Maturin..
The journey of the Diane encompasses a great and satisfying diversity of adventures