ENGLISH

Master and Commander

By Patrick O'Brian

Book information

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Year
1996
ISBN
0006499155, 9780006499152
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
582 kB (595704 bytes)
Pages
\0
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

3 Cassettes, 4 1/2 hoursRead by Robert HardyAbridgedAudioBook contains an illustration of the sails of a square-rigged ship.The 1st installment in O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series"The best historical novels ever written..."-The New York Times Book ReviewThis, 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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