Master and Commander

O'Brian, Patrick

ISBN 10: 1860510035 ISBN 13: 9781860510038

Publisher: Bespoke Audio, 1995

Synopsis

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.

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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. -- Amazon.com

Review

“Treat yourself: buy the tapes” Irish Times 7/6/97

‘…full of the energy that comes from a writer having struck a vein… Patrick O’Brian is unquestionably the Homer of the Napoleonic wars.’
James Hamilton- Paterson

‘You are in for the treat of your lives. Thank God for Patrick O’Brian: his genius illuminates the literature of the English language, and lightens the lives of those who read him.’
Kevin Myers, Irish Times

Edition details

• Publisher: Bespoke Audio
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1860510035
• ISBN 13: 9781860510038
• Binding: Audio Cassette