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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled The Far Side of the World about South, Language, English with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction.
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conversations.value: s: 400 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK the author's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written.Now these evocative stories are being re- issued in paperback by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets.It is still the War of 1812.the author takes his hero Jack Aubrey and his tetchy. sardonic friend Stephen Maturin on a voyage as fascinating as anything he has ever written.They set course across the South Atlantic to intercept a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade.If they do not come up with her before she rounds the Horn. they must follow her into the Great South Sea and as far across the Pacific as she may lead them.It is a commission after Jack's own heart.Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world...
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book about South, Language, English with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction.. End with the sentence '\nTheir cheering stops when the whaler loses two masts and strikes her colours, because it is the Surprise that takes her in chase.'.
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conversations.value: The Far Side of the World: Aubrey meets Admiral Ives, now in Gibraltar, who is pleased with the last mission of HMS Surprise, despite Aubrey's negative report.\nMr Yarrow will rephrase the report to make the results clearer to the Admiralty.\nThe admiral is now a peer, his deepest wish, and he is a happy man.\nAubrey dines with Laura Fielding and her husband, Lieutenant Fielding, who is now completely satisfied that his wife is true to him and thanks Aubrey for his kindness to her in bringing her from Malta to Gibraltar (though it is Maturin who is responsible for her being on the ship, having saved her from two assassins and brought her aboard to escape).\nMaturin receives news from his intelligence-chief in London, Sir Joseph Blaine, confirming high level infiltration of British intelligence by the French.\nMaturin's wife Diana has heard rumours of the infidelity he pretended in Valletta, Malta, with Mrs Fielding for intelligence reasons.\nHe sends her a letter via Andrew Wray, unsuspecting of Wray's role as a French agent.\nMaturin learns of his success in Malta, destroying the French intelligence network based there, all but André Lesueur taken.\nSurprise is not yet to be broken up; Aubrey is sent by Admiral Ives on a mission to protect British whalers in the Pacific Ocean from the USS Norfolk, sailing on HMS Surprise.\nAubrey makes all haste to prepare his ship with men and supplies.\nHe recruits Mr Allen, a new master with an in-depth knowledge of whalers, takes on Mr Martin as schoolmaster to the midshipmen and mr Hollom, an aging midshipman.\nAubrey wonders if his kindness takes aboard a Jonah with Hollom.\nThe Surprise sails to the farthest east point of Brazil, where the bowsprit is burnt by lightning.\nDuring the repairs, Pullings sees the USS Norfolk pass by.\nMrs Horner, the gunner's wife, engages in an affair with Hollom, and gets pregnant.\nMaturin will not interfere with the pregnancy, so she turns to his assistant, Higgins, who leaves her near death.\nMaturin saves her life.\nHollom was long considered a Jonah by the crew.\nSurprise rounds Cape Horn with some losses, and then reaches the Juan Fernández Islands to refit and recover.\nThere, the gunner kills his wife and Hollom, and re-boards the ship.\nOff Chile, Horner learns that Higgins performed an abortion on his wife; Higgins disappears from the ship and Horner hangs himself in his cabin.\nSurprise retakes the packet Danaë, with Lieutenant Lawrence in command, and in the Pacific, retakes the valuable whaler Acapulco with Caleb Gill, nephew to the Norfolk's captain in command.\nTom Pullings sails the packet ship back to England, after Maturin and Aubrey take possession of a hidden brass box, per instructions to Maturin.\nMr Allen negotiates with the agent for the whaler in Valparaiso, where the American prisoners are left ashore.\nTaking the whaler restores the spirit to the crew.\nArrived at the Galapagos archipelago, Maturin and Martin are amazed at the new species they see on land, in the air and in the sea.\nSurprise picks up men from the whaler Intrepid Fox, now burnt by USS Norfolk.\nKnowing where the Norfolk is headed, Aubrey sails along the equator west toward the Marquesas.\nMaturin is disappointed and furious that the promise made to let him explore ashore is broken.\nAubrey saves Maturin when he falls overboard one evening, but no one misses them until dawn.\nThe two men are rescued by Polynesian women on a Pahi, who ultimately leave them on a small island with a fishing line.\nThe launch from the Surprise finds them.\nMaturin is needed aboard Surprise, as the group sent to board the Pahi was cruelly beaten by the women.\nAfter surviving the tail of a typhoon, the Surprise finds the Norfolk wrecked on a reef by the same typhoon and her survivors encamped on an island.\nAubrey, Mr Martin and some of the crew take Maturin ashore for surgery; he is in a coma since hitting his head during the typhoon.\nJust as the surgeon from the Norfolk, Dr Butcher, prepares to operate, Maturin wakes from his coma.\nBefore they can rejoin their ship, a heavy storm blows the Surprise away.\nRelations between the two marooned groups are tense, because some of the Norfolks were mutineers in 1797 aboard HMS Hermione; they will be hanged by the British.\nOne admits this to Bonden.\nAubrey tells the American Captain Palmer that he and his crew are prisoners of war.\nBoth groups are eager to leave this island.\nAubrey orders his carpenters to lengthen the launch so they can sail away, pushing the rest to collect food.\nHe sees an American whaler on the horizon.\nThe crew of the Norfolk spot the same whaler, cheer at the sight, and then kill their informer.\nThe Norfolks fight with the Surprises.\nTheir cheering stops when the whaler loses two masts and strikes her colours, because it is the Surprise that takes her in chase.