MASTER AND COMMANDER

O'Brian, Patrick

ISBN 10: 0393037010 / ISBN 13: 9780393037012

Published by W.W. Norton, 1970

About this Item

W.W. Norton, 1970. First printing noted on copyright page. 8vo. lower edge of spine lightly bent, else fine hardcover, near fine d/j.

Seller Inventory # 113347

Bibliographic Details

• Title: MASTER AND COMMANDER
• Publisher: W.W. Norton
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393037010
• ISBN 13: 9780393037012
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: near fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • FICTION

About this title

Synopsis

The beginning to the sweeping Aubrey/Maturin series. "The best sea story I have ever read."―Sir Francis Chichester

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 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.

About the Author

One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O’Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.