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O'Brian, Patrick, 1914-2000199503UU
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The beginning to the sweeping Aubrey/Maturin series. "The best sea story I have ever read."--Sir Francis Chichester. This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, RN, and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleanic wars. Details of life aboard a man-of-war are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggins, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.
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Imprint:
New York : W W Norton & Co Ltd : 1995.
Collation:
416 p. : ill. ; 22x15x4 cm.
Notes:
Hardback.
Audience:
Undergraduate.
ISBN:
9780393037012 (hbk)0393037010 (hbk)978007157860 (invalid)
Dewey class:
AF
Language:
English
Index terms:
Great Britain - History, Naval - 19th centuryShip physiciansHistorical fictionSea storiesShip captainsGreat Britain - History, Naval - 19th century - FictionAubrey, Jack (Fictitious character) - FictionMaturin, Stephen (Fictitious character) - FictionAubrey, Jack (Fictitious character)Maturin, Stephen (Fictitious character)
BRN:
4124609
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