Master and Commander

by Patrick O'Brian

MASTER AND COMMANDER is the first volume in the O'Brian's delightful series about the English Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, in which Jack Aubrey (a captain in the Royal Navy) and Stephen Maturin (who will become his ship's surgeon and closest friend) first meet, in April 1800 at a performance of Locatelli's C-major Quartet at a concert in Minorca. This first installment is a beautifully written and observed novel of war, friendship, love, and--not incidentally--natural history, amateur music-making, the British intelligence network, and 18th-century life in general. The book was the basis for the successful and critically acclaimed 2003 movie.

Available editions of Master and Commander

	9780786188376, Compact Disc, Blackstone Audio Inc, 2004 $72.90 (NEW) Other copies of 9780786188376

	9780786187133, MP3 CD, Blackstone Audio Inc, 2004 $23.70 (New ) Other copies of 9780786187133

	9780786126699, Audio Cassette, Blackstone Audio Inc, 2004 $25.00 (Very Good) Other copies of 9780786126699

	9780786186297, Compact Disc, Blackstone Audio Inc, 2004 $36.49 (NEW) Other copies of 9780786186297

	9780786127634, Audio Cassette, Blackstone Audio Inc, 2004 $42.70 (New ) Other copies of 9780786127634

	9780754013341, Hardcover, Chivers, 1999 None currently available

	9780754022480, Hardcover, Thorndike Pr, 1999 $2.00 (VG-) Other copies of 9780754022480

	9780736657136, Audio Cassette, Books on Tape, 2001 $60.39 (New) Other copies of 9780736657136

	9780393325171, Paperback, W W Norton & Co Inc, 2003 $1.00 (Very Good) Other copies of 9780393325171

	9780393307054, Paperback, W W Norton & Co Inc, 1990 $1.00 (Very Good) Other copies of 9780393307054

	9780393037012, Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc, 1994 $8.00 (Good ) Other copies of 9780393037012

	9780786219322, Hardcover, Thorndike Pr, 1999 None currently available

Publisher Notes

The first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of life aboard a man-of-war are rendered: the conversational idiom of the men, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of wind and rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.

Media Reviews

"Patrick O'Brian's sophisticated sea story...re-creates with delightful subtlety, the flavor of life aboard a midget British man-of-war....Even for a reader not especially interested in matters nautical, the author's easy command of the philosophical, political, sensual and social temper of the times flavors a rich entertainment."

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