Master and Commander - (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) by Patrick O'Brian (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The beginning of the sweeping Aubrey-Maturin series. The best sea story I have ever read.--Sir Francis Chichester<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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 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 roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>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 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[The series shows] a joy in language that jumps from every page...you're in for a wonderful voyage.--Cutler Durkee "People"<br><br>If Jane Austen had written rousing sea yarns, she would have produced something very close to the prose of Patrick O'Brian.-- "Time"<br><br>My hero is Patrick O'Brian...I read all of his books many, many times. I've read them so many times I can't read them anymore because eventually you know the whole book by heart.--David Mamet "New York Magazine"<br><br>O'Brian is a novelist, pure and simple, one of the best we have.-- "Los Angeles Times Book Review"<br><br>One does not get many pages into the Aubrey-Maturin sequence before falling under the spell of O'Brian's prose, which is...elegantly paced, quietly witty.--Katherine A. Powers "The Atlantic"<br><br>Taken as a whole, the Aubrey-Maturin novels are by a long shot the best things of their kind...they are uniquely excellent.--Terry Teachout "New York Times Book Review"<br><br>The best historical novels ever written.--Richard Snow "New York Times Book Review"<br><br>There are two types of people in the world: Patrick O'Brian fans, and people who haven't read him yet.--Lucy Eyre "The Guardian"<br><br>I prefer the Aubrey-Maturin series to all others, even Holmes-Watson. Every book is packed to absolute straining with erudition, wit, history, and thunderous action.--Joe Hill<br>
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