Other editions of book Master & Commander

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, 1st Harper Collins Edition Thus, 1st Impression. Thick Royal 8vo. 402pp. Frontispiece ship illustration. Clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or marks of any kind. In very good bright gilt lettered blue cloth and clipped pictorial dustwrapper featuring ship at sea illustration, rubbed to foot of wrapper. The first and seminal novel of the Aubrey-Maturin series.

Here is the maiden voyage of O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series, which follows the unique friendship between Captain Aubrey, R. N. , and Stephen Maturin, the ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. O'Brian renders in riveting detail the life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy: 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. “Patrick O'Brian can put a spark of character into the sawdust of time. “ -- Observer Patrick O'Brian (1914-2000) was born Richard Patrick Russ in England. During WWII he and his wife were involved in British secret-service activities. After the war he changed his name to Patrick O'Brian. He began his career as a novelist, biographer, and translator. Starting in the 1990s, Mr. O'Brian, then in his seventies, achieved the critical and popular recognition that was his due. Earphones Award recipient Simon Vance was born in England and worked for the BBC for ten years as a radio-news announcer and also worked as a narrator for the Royal National Institute for the Blind in London. In addition to narrating for Blackstone Audiobooks, he involves himself in numerous stage acting projects in the United States and Europe.