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	Kerguelen Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kerguelen Islands or the Kerguelen Archipelago (French: Îles Kerguelen or Archipel de Kerguelen or officially Archipel des Kerguelen or officially Archipel Kerguelen) is a group of islands in the southern Indian Ocean.
		The islands are one of four districts of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, and were discovered by Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec in February 1772.
		In the seafaring novel Desolation Island, one of the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, the crew repair their disabled ship on an island that strongly resembles Kerguelen, although a later book in the series asserts that it is a different Desolation Island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kerguelen_Islands (613 words)

	Kerguelen Islands Online Research :: Information about Kerguelen Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Kerguelen Islands or the Kerguelen Archipelago (French language : Ãles Kerguelen or Archipel de Kerguelen or officially Archipel des Kerguelen or officially Archipel Kerguelen) is a group of Island in the southern Indian Ocean.
		The Kerguelen Islands are located at 49°15 S 69°35 E. The main Island, Grande Terre, originally called Desolation Island, is 1 E9 m and it is surrounded by another 300 smaller islands and islets, forming an Archipelago of 7,215 km².
		In the seafaring novel Desolation Island (novel), one of the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, the crew repair their disabled ship on an island that strongly resembles Kerguelen, although a later book in the series asserts that it is a different Desolation Island.
	www.in-northcarolina.com /search/Kerguelen_Islands.html (560 words)

	Channel Island Cattle
		The Channel Islands are situated in the English Channel west of Normandy and north of St. Malo in Brittany, ALderney, the northernmost of these Islands, is seven miles from the coast of France, whence the inhabitants were long accustomed to procure their grain, flour and provisions in small boats.
		The Channel Islands breeds were but at their very beginning at the end of the 19th century, and the process of breed formation is in its early stages at the present time.
		The purpose of the Island ordinances, therefore - both of the Jersey ordinance of 1789 and the Guernsey ordinance of 1819 - was to exclude French cattle from competing with Island cattle in the English trade.
	www.jersey.syd-fyn.dk /prentice.htm (17410 words)

	Allegory Wrestling, or Desolation Island Decoded
		The voyage of the Leopard in Desolation Island is introduced as a conventional adventure, to assist Governor Bligh at Botany Bay and explore new lands.
		While Desolation Island hints at this kind, the characters and their relationships are not drawn so darkly, and the heroes do not suffer mortally, which would end the series; we get not catharsis, but a sequel.
		Desolation Island is the hinge of the series, settling its form and accomplishments.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~hfc/pob/aw.html (3443 words)

	Getting to Vancouver Island
		It is separated from Vancouver, BC by the Strait of Georgia to the east and from Washington State, by the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the south and southeast.
		The west coast of the island is mostly uninhabited, except for a sprinkling of small communities, notably Ucluelet and Tofino, located on either side of the world renowned Pacific Rim National Park.
		While Vancouver Island’s west coast is mostly uninhabited, the Island’s major settlements and roads are mainly clustered on its east coast, where the ocean is protected.
	www.sailingcharters.bc.ca /FAQ.htm (1762 words)

	2002 VOC Duyfken Voyagie: Captain's Log (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Stijn and I have both read the Patrick O'Brien novel, which has a description of the Rocks, I think it was the novel Desolation Island.
		In the novel the ship is becalmed near the rocks and the doctor is rowed ashore to study the bird life.
		As we sail past the rocks on the lee side we see a small fishing vessel moored to the permanent buoy on the west side of the island, no movement could be seen on the vessel, must have been asleep.
	www.duyfken.com /voyagie/log/default.asp-id=1243.htm (673 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Desolation Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Desolation Island is in some ways similar to contemporary works by LeCarre such as The Honourable Schoolboy or The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.
		Desolation Island is one of the richest, and at the same time most easily approached, titles in the Aubrey Maturin series.
		Stephen really takes center stage in the novel, since his on-again off-again relationship with Diana is explored early, and Stephen (with his intelligence background) is intricately involved in the action of the novel as American agents are aboard the Leopard, on the verge of the outbreak of the War of 1812.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1402502249 (1452 words)

	Aubrey-Maturin series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The novel gives further scope to Maturin's role as both a secret agent (in which he uses propaganda effectively to support the campaign) and as a naturalist (in which he is seen collecting relics of the extinct birds the Dodo and the Solitaire).
		En route to Australia, the Leopard is becalmed and devastated by a plague, engaged in a chilling life-or-death chase by the Dutch 74 gun Waakzaamheid, gravely wounded by an Antarctic iceberg, and stranded on Desolation Island, a frigid, uninhabited archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean.
		The novel provided much of the overall plot structure for the 2003 Peter Weir film, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, though the USS Norfolk was changed to the French privateer Acheron, and episodes were also taken from other books in the series, including Master and Commander and HMS Surprise.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Desolation_Island_(novel) (4105 words)

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		The holy man had gone almost entirely round the island without meeting any inhabitants, when he came to a vast amphitheatre formed of fl and red rocks whose summits became tinged with blue as they rose towards the clouds, and they were filled with sonorous cascades.
		It was the Beach of Shadows, and the inhabitants of the island never ventured on it for fear of the serpents that lodged in the hollows of the rocks and lest they might encounter the souls of the dead who resembled livid flames.
		But during the troubles that desolated the kingdom in the time of King Collic and his successors, the tomb of St. Orberosia was plundered of its wealth, the monastery burned down, and the monks dispersed.
	eserver.org /fiction/penguin-island.txt (21492 words)

	Jed Marum, Soul of a Wanderer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Here is a writer and performer who has a feel for a tale and the talent to put the words and music together in a hypnotic mix.
		"Desolation Island" is a fabulous song written by Marum about an incident in a book by Patrick O'Brien.
		It has a feel of a song written at the time of the fictional disaster and is a treat to hear.
	www.rambles.net /marum_soul02.html (587 words)

	Chatham Islands, New Zealand
		For one, it is one of the few oceanic islands or archipelagoes that resides between 40 and 50 degrees either north or south latitude.
		So back to Chatham Island, and as we land I realize, in my imaginary global tour, that this is one of the few inhabited oceanic island groups in the world at this general latitude, in either the northern or southern hemisphere.
		Also present was the endemic Chatham Island mahoe or Melicytus chathamica of the Violaceae family, with lance-shaped, sharply-toothed leaves 5-12 centimeters long, growing as an understory tree to 5 meters tall in rapidly revegetating regions of the coastal reserves.
	www.spiritone.com /~brucem/chatham.htm (3052 words)

	Desolation Island (novel) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Desolation Island (1978) is a novel by Patrick O'Brian, the fifth in the Aubrey–Maturin series;.
		The story charts the voyage of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin to Australia and the East Indies aboard HMS Leopard.
		After a close encounter with a Dutch warship the 'Leopard' is badly damaged by an iceberg in the Southern Ocean and makes a last-ditch landfall on a desolate island.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/desolation_island__novel_ (149 words)

	Alibris: Island
		Set in 1935, when guards actually lived on Alcatraz Island with their families, Choldenko's second novel brings humor to the complexities of family dynamics and illuminates the real struggle of a kid trying to free himself from the "good boy" stance he's taken his whole life.
		The considerable trials of a Cape Breton Island family in the early 20th century are chronicled in this novel: James, the father, who has an unhealthy attraction toward his talented daughters; his repressed wife who commits suicide after her daughter's death in childbirth; and three sisters.
		Told in four distinct voices, the winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2004 is a courageous novel of tender emotion and sparkling wit, encapsulating the most American of experiences: the immigrant's life.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Island (1143 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Kerguelen Archipelago is in the southern Indian Ocean at 49°20' S, 70°20' E. The main island Kerguelen, originally called Desolation Island, is 6,675 km
		The islands belong to France, and were discovered by Yves Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec in February 1772.
		In the seafaring novel Desolation Island one of the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, the crew is shipwrecked on Kerguelen.
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Kerguelen_Islands (244 words)

	Savary Island Chat Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It is an island rule to have those fires well away from the logs and flammable banks of Savary and to clean up after you when you leave.
		Our uncle has a cabin that he had built on the island in the late 1950's, so our family has been going up there, and I think that we are on the third generations going up now.
		In 1792 Vancouver was desperately trying to be the first to circle the island - in the first true round-iland race - being tailed by various Spaniards who left their name on many Gulf Islands that same year.
	www.savaryonline.com /chat/guestbook.html (6906 words)

	Pagination of Various Aubrey-Maturin Novel Editions
		The first three Patrick O'Brian Aubrey-Maturin novels were published in the US by Lippincott and the next two by Stein and Day.
		US publication of the novels was not resumed until 1990 until W.W. Norton began a reissue of the series, at first in trade paperback format but later in hardcover.
		In the UK all the novels until Clarissa Oakes (The Truelove) were published by Collins until the publishing house, through a merger, became HarperCollins.
	www.hmssurprise.org /Resources/ChapterPage.html (129 words)

	Desolation Island, by Patrick O'Brian
		In a way, one of the central characters of "Desolation Island" is Jack Aubrey's ship, HMS Leopard, unaffectionately known as "the horrible old Leopard," one of that class of Fourth Rates known as 50-gun ships.
		And of course, "Desolation Island" is the first book in what I think of as being the Great Sequence of novels at the heart of the Aubrey-Maturin Canon, that sequence of novels stretching from "Desolation Island" through "The Wine-Dark Sea" in a virtually unbroken, continuous narrative.
		A search for Desolation Island, and I quickly have a list of everyone of them that has a Stein & Day copy of DI, and whether it is currently on the shelf.
	jfinnera.www1.50megs.com /Desolation.htm (17590 words)

	Amazon.com: Desolation Island (Aubrey Maturin Series): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It may sound silly, but since most of "Desolation Island" is a series of misfortunes and tragedies, it was hard going for me. Unlike other installments of this 20 book series, the plot of "Desolation Island" is pretty much self-contained; it has very few repercussions in the later books in the series.
		Desolation Island and The Maritius Command are both fast paced and hard to put down.
		That said, looking back I think Desolation Island is the best of what I have read so far (no reflection on the later books, which are outstanding).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/039330812X?v=glance (1801 words)

	Gifts-Vouchers.co.uk - Desolation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This book is the French translated version of Stephen King's Novel: 'Desperation', so you might be better off trying the original English version for a better read.
		It is not one of SK's best novels, but I didn't find anything cliched or derived in the story, just maybe not very believable, but then again, it is fantasy/horror fiction!4
		Although I am not averse to this format, I found the plot weak and the narrative extremely cliched and derivative.
	www.gifts-vouchers.co.uk /gift.php?asin=2290306673 (237 words)

	The Island Home
		In some two or three islands, a solitary white man was found, one of whom, Paddy Connell, (an Irishman, of course), a short, wrinkled old man, with a beard reaching to his middle, in a rich Milesian brogue, related his adventures during a forty years' residence at Ovolan, one of the Feejees.
		That these islands have been peopled at a period not very remote is tolerably certain, as the natives state that only a few generations back, the people were fewer than at present, and that then there were no wars.
		It was now clear that we must give up the hope of reaching the island which we had left, for it was certain that we had sailed farther since morning than the boat could possibly have been drifted during the night, by the wind, or the current, or both combined.
	www.pos1.info /i/islehome.htm (20056 words)

	Buy Half Broken Things, At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances (Portuguese Irregular Verbs), The Finer Points of Sausage ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A stunning, thought-provoking crime novel of chilling moral complexity, Half Broken Things is a gripping, haunting exploration of love and our need for it, of the damage done when we go long without it, and the deeds we might be driven to in its name.
		A sweeping novel of huge ambition, Ireland is the beautifully told story of a remarkable nation.
		From the epic sweep of its telling to the precision of its characters -- great and small, tragic and comic -- it rings with the truth of a writer passionate about his country and in full command of his craft.
	ambooks.com.ru /CAT_10088 (2026 words)

	Amazon.com: Master and Commander (Aubrey Maturin Series): Books: Patrick O'Brian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Some critics have referred to the Aubrey/Maturin books as one long novel united not only by their historical setting but also by the central plot element of the Aubrey/Maturin friendship.
		Several of these stories can be enjoyed as psychological novels, as adventure stories, as suspense novels, and even one as a legal thriller.
		Desolation Island, Fortune of War, and The Surgeon's Mate are one such grouping.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393307050?v=glance (4008 words)

	Champney's Island Georgia USA
		ea island and river delta agriculture began within almost a decade of the founding of the Colony of Georgia in 1733.
		Thomas would first establish a career as a lawyer and later as a planter on Sapelo Island; in between he would be one of Georgia's signers of the U.S Constitution.
		Kemble's later book would recount the horrors she witnessed during a stay at Butler Island plantation and become one of the most famous abolitionist works in American history.
	www.arcl.ed.ac.uk /arch/remotesense/georgia/gwtw.html (1583 words)

	The Desolation Angels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It would be pretty novel to have both signs in our yard, though; would definitely present a correct view of the war-situation to people of the anti-war persuasion: You may not support the war, but you ought to support our boys, eh.
		He told me the names of dim capes and shadowy islands as we glided by them in the solemnity of the night, under the winking stars, and by and by got to talking about himself.
		He seemed over-sentimental for a man whose salary was six dollars a week -- or rather he might have seemed so to an older person than I. But I drank in his words hungrily, and with a faith that might have moved mountains if it had been applied judiciously.
	palinode.blogspot.com /2003_02_01_palinode_archive.html (13776 words)

	Desolation Island (Aubrey / Maturin, book 5) by Patrick O'Brian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy -- and a treacherous disease which decimates the crew.
		The ingredients of a wonderfully powerful and dramatic O'Brian novel are heightened by descriptive writing of rare quality.
		Nowhere in contemporary prose have the majesty and terror of the sea been more effectively rendered than in the thrilling chase through an Antarctic storm in which Jack's ship, under-manned and out-gunned, is the quarry not the hunter.
	www.ffbooks.co.uk /n12/n61213.htm (212 words)

	The Desolation Angels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It makes me want to write a novel or screen play about a goodly politician, unwavering in his convictions, and affable even to his severest political adversaries, who suffers an untimely, tragic death, only to have the scum-of-the-earth self-agrandising politicians converge on his memorial like vultures and co-opt his memory for their own politician machinations.
		As was sometimes his habit he spent a summer alone on a lookout post somewhere in Yellowstone (I believe) keeping watch for fires.
		For days and days on end he looked out across the gulf at Desolation Peak and developed a perception of The Void; namely, an immutable, everlasting, all-encompassing presense, or reality, that sat there, and by Its existence mocked everything that the poor Kerouac was, his transient.
	www.ontoblogical.com /palinode/archives/2002_10_01_palinode_archive.html (1241 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Desert Island Experiment
		It wasn't a desert island, granted (Japan is fairly thickly settled), and it was only for a few months, but I have, in fact, packed books for a trip to an island where I wasn't certain to be able to find any other reading material.
		It's not exactly a true "desert island" list, as I did buy a fair number of books there (especially once I was shown how to find Good Day Books), but I can more or less reconstruct what I bought for the trip.
		It makes more sense as a Web novel, and would've been a surreal reading experience even if I hadn't been reading it in the middle of a 12-hour flight to Tokyo.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2003/12/30/191150.php (1718 words)

	Falkner A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He fancied that he held a flower in his hand, from which the sweetest perfume alone could be extracted -- but the germ was blighted, and the very core turned to bitter ashes and dust.
		If indeed it were -- if it be so, it might move any heart to imagine poor Alithea's misery -- the obloquy that mantles over her remembrance at home, while she broods over the desolation of the hearth she so long adorned, and the pining, impatient anguish of her beloved boy.
		What could or can keep her away, is matter of fearful conjecture; but this much is certain, that, at that time at least, and now, if she survives, she must be miserable.
	www.harvestfields.ca /horror/005/178.htm (18013 words)

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