Master and Commander

O'Brian Patrick

ISBN 10: 0006499155 / ISBN 13: 9780006499152

Published by Harper Collins, London, 1996

About this Item

A Jack Aubrey Novel . Light self rubbing to edges and corners but generally v.g. Seller Inventory # 004144

Bibliographic Details

Title: Master and Commander

Publisher: Harper Collins, London

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: paperback/soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition in This Form.

About this title

Synopsis:

3 Cassettes, 4 1/2 hours
Read by Robert Hardy
Abridged
AudioBook contains an illustration of the sails of a square-rigged ship.

The 1st installment in O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series

"The best historical novels ever written..."
-The New York Times Book Review

This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, Royal Navy, and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars.  Details of 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 road of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.

Review:

The opening salvo of the Aubrey-Maturin epic, in which the surgeon introduces himself to the captain by driving an elbow into his ribs during a chamber-music recital. Fortunately for millions of readers, the two quickly make up. Then they commence one of the great literary voyages of our century, set against an immaculately-detailed backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. This is the place to start--and in all likelihood, you won't be able to stop.