Master and Commander

Patrick O'Brian First published 2000

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • aubrey, jack (fictitious character), fiction
  • english literature
  • fairy tales, folklore & mythology
  • fiction
  • fiction, historical
  • fiction, historical, general
  • fiction, sea stories
  • great britain
  • great britain. royal navy
  • historical fiction
  • historical - general
  • history
  • jack aubrey (fictitious character)
  • large type books
  • maturin, stephen (fictitious character), fiction
  • napoleonic wars, 1800-1815
  • napoleonic wars, 1800-1815, fiction
  • naval history
  • seafaring life
  • sea stories
  • ship captains
  • ship physicians
  • stephen maturin (fictitious character)
  • unabridged audio - fiction/general