Master and Commander (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 1)

Name: Master and Commander (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 1)
Rating: 4.310344696044922 (58 reviews)

Patrick O’Brian

Dec 2011 · Aubrey-Maturin Book 1 · HarperCollins UK

4.3

58 reviews

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In this, the first of Patrick O’Brian’s much lauded Aubrey–Maturin novels, discover a vibrant world conjured by a master storyteller, rich with detail and character.

1800. Napoleon Bonaparte is the biggest threat to peace yet seen.

Newly promoted to command of his first ship, Captain Jack Aubrey, along with his crew, and new friend and ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin, must patrol a Mediterranean fraught with peril but rich with rewards. A glimpse of white sails on the horizon could mean a prize to be taken – or a fight for survival.

‘In Aubrey and Maturin, Patrick O’Brian has created two of the most enjoyable characters in twentieth-century fiction. One of the greatest authors to sail with.’
MICHAEL PALIN

‘There are two types of people in the world: Patrick O'Brian fans, and people who haven't read him yet.’
LUCY EYRE, Guardian

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4.3

58 reviews

Richard Harding

May 15, 2013

Until I'd researched the series I was under the impression that the book had been wrote during the time period it captures. Its accuracy, parlance and prose are wonderful and serve to let you fall right into the Aubrey / Maturin world. While not an easy book to begin, it offers a crash course in sailing terms that you soon pick up with both the in book descriptions and in my case access to Google when I truly needed to understand the position of a certain mast, perfect to read on a tablet with Internet.

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A Google user

February 27, 2018

Wonderfully written and totally believable, you're drawn into a different world, totally loved it, and continued to read the rest of the series.

6 people found this review helpful

Rob Bruce

January 25, 2020

I don't read much, but this is the second book by this author that I have read. I enjoyed them both.

1 person found this review helpful

About the author

Patrick O’Brian was born in 1914 and published his first book, Caesar, when he was only fifteen. In the 1960s he began work on the idea that, over the next four decades, evolved into the twenty-novel long Aubrey–Maturin series (with an extra unfinished volume published posthumously). In 1995 he was awarded the CBE, and in 1997 he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Trinity College, Dublin. He died in January 2000 at the age of 85.

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