Master and Commander |
|
| Author:
| O'Brian, Patrick |
| Read by:
| Hardy, Robert |
| Series title: | Aubrey-Maturin Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7393-1565-1 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2004 |
| Publisher: | Random House Audio Publishing Group
|
| Book Format: | CD-Audio |
| List Price: | USD $22.00 |
Book Description:
|
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...
More DescriptionThe 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.