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      Master and Commander

      by Patrick O'Brian
      Published
      Jan 1970
      Main Genre
      Action Adventure Action & Adventure
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      412
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      Aubrey/Maturin Book 1

      About This Book

      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 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 roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.

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      Genres & Themes

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      General Fiction Suspense

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      Action Adventure Historical

      Themes

      Military Nautical

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