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Original Title:	Master and Commander
ISBN:	0393307050 (ISBN13: 9780393307054)
Edition Language:	English URL https://wwnorton.com/books/master-and-commander/
Series:	Aubrey & Maturin #1
Characters:	Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee for The Lost Man Booker Prize Longlist (1970)

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As the Royal Navy takes part in the wars against Napoleonic France, young Jack Aubrey receives his first command, the small, old, and slow HMS Sophie. Accompanied by his eccentric new friend, the physician and naturalist Stephen Maturin, Aubrey does battle with the naval hierarchy, with his own tendency to make social blunders, and with the challenges of forging an effective crew -- before ultimately taking on enemy ships in a vivid, intricately detailed series of sea battles.

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Title	:	Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin #1)
Author	:	Patrick O'Brian
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 464 pages
Published	:	August 17th 1990 by W. W. Norton Company (first published 1970)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Adventure. Classics

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The first book in a series that I adore.I've spent a long time trying to figure out the Aubrey / Maturin phenomenon. On the surface, O'Brian appears to make some rookie mistakes when it comes to historical nautical fiction. In places, when describing complex tacking maneuvers, the ways in which sails are set, or fleets wearing or attacking together, O'Brian gets fathoms deep into nautical jargon so that even Stephen Maturin, the well-appointed lubberly reader's surrogate, can't bail you out. A

Maybe it's a blasphemy, but I prefer the Aubrey-Maturin series to all others, even Holmes-Watson. Every book is packed to absolute straining with erudition, wit, history, and thunderous action. I read two books from the series every year - they're reliable standbys when I absolutely must read something I know I will love.

Jack Aubrey, the frustrated naval officer, at last, after a long wait, on shore, receives his own ship to command, the brig Sophie, but by the strange ways of the British Royal Navy , called a sloop. The year 1800, Napoleon is unstoppable on land, but the British rule the Seas. In Port Mahon, on the Mediterranean island of Minorca, captured from the Spanish, allies of the French. Aubrey tries to gets his ship ready, war rages, it has for many years. He, a music lover, meets Stephen Maturin, on

Its 1800 and the British navy is at war with Napoleon. Jack Aubrey is given command of his first ship. The main and most lovingly drawn character in this book is the ship itself, the Sophie. The knowledge Patrick OBrian has of 19th century naval vessels is remarkable, almost overwhelming. I have to confess that at times there was almost too much research in this novel. Virtually every sentence contains nautical terms that I had to look up. Its a very cinematic novel more focused on action

I'm putting this volume on my list to represent the entire twenty-volume series, which I've almost finished now. If you saw the Peter Weir movie, my impression was that the period detail was nice and Russell Crowe was well-cast but the rest of the film really didn't convey what is wonderful about Patrick O'Brian's mind. These are naval adventure stories, set mostly aboard a British man-of-war during the Napoleonic conflicts. In those respects they are like C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower

Second time lucky: in my first attempt, I put the book away after a chapter and a half, slightly daunted by maritime jargon and a little bored by the lack of action right from the start. I guess it also caught me in a bad spot, too tired to give the story a fair chance, because coming back to it years later, I couldn't put it down, immediately setting aside the other three books I had on. The technical terms are as eclectic and frequent as I remembered (the schematic of a square rigged ship

I think Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are two of the greatest characters ever. And part of what makes them so great is that POB wasn't afraid to let them be complex and awkward and sad. He wasn't afraid, either, to let them be products of their time. Too often, writers of historical fiction feel like they need to make their characters some kind of historical prodigy -- the 18thC doctor who has discovered that if he feeds his patients this special mold, they'll get better. That sort of thing.