Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0393307050
ISSN
30002954
Category
Fiction
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Publication Year
1990
Publisher
Pages
457
Description
The beginning of the sweeping Aubrey-Maturin series. "The best sea story I have ever read."—Sir Francis ChichesterThis, 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. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
