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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.

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Third in the series of Aubrey-Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian... Read more

    Publisher: WW Norton & Co
    Publication Date: 25/07/1991
    ISBN13: 9780393307610, 978-0393307610
    ISBN10: 0393307611

    Number of Pages: 416

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    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.

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