(P/B) MASTER AND COMMANDER

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"Master and Commander" is the first of Patrick O'Brian's now famous Aubrey-Maturin novels, regarded by many as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. It establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ship's surgeon and a secret agent. It contains all the action and excitement which could possibly be hoped for in a historical novel, but it also displays the qualities which have put O'Brian far ahead of his competitors: his depiction of the detail of life aboard a Nelsonic man-of-war, of weapons, food, conversation and ambience, of the landscape and of the sea. O'Brian's portrayal of each of these is faultless and the sense of period throughout is acute. His power of characterisation above all is masterly. (From the publisher)

'There is nothing in this century that rivals Patrick O'Brian's achievement. His novels embrace with loving clarity the full richness of the 18th-century world. They embody the cruelty of battle, the comedy of mens' lives, the uncertain fears that plague their hearts; and yet, not far away, is the vision of an ideal existence.' (AMANDA FOREMAN, New York Times)

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