Master and Commander
A Novel
by Patrick O'Brian
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Pub Date Aug 17 1990 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Description
This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.
Advance Praise
Re-creates with delightful subtlety, the flavor of life aboard a midget
British man-of-war plying the western Mediterranean in the year 1800, a
year of indecisive naval skirmishes with France and Spain. Even for a
reader not especially interested in matters nautical, the author's easy
command of the philosophical, political, sensual and social temper of
the times flavors a rich entertainment.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780393307054 |
| PRICE | $15.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 464 |
