Master and Commander
By Patrick O’Brian
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 a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of life aboard a man-of-war are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom, the food, the floggings….
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