Master and commander
by Patrick O'Brian
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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin form a friendship in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy is described.
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Unabridged Audio - Fiction/General, Fiction, Historical - General, Sea Stories, Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology, Fiction, sea stories, Aubrey, jack (fictitious character), fiction, Maturin, stephen (fictitious character), fiction, Napoleonic wars, 1800-1815, fiction, Fiction, historical, Jack Aubrey (Fictitious character), Stephen Maturin (Fictitious character), Naval History, Ship captains, Ship physicians, Historical fiction, Seafaring life, History, Large type books, Great Britain. Royal Navy, Great Britain, Fiction, historical, general, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, English literaturePeople
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Master and Commander
October 6, 2003, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Harper Collins Pb
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"First published in 1970 by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd"--T.p. verso.
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"The music-room in the Governor's House at Port Mahon, a tall, handsome, pillared octagon, was filled with the triumphant first movement of Locatelli's C major quartet."
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This is book 1 in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Here is the maiden voyage of O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series, which follows the unique friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. O'Brian renders in riveting detail the life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy: 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. - Publisher.
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