This is book 1 in 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, 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. - Publisher.
Genres
- Unabridged Audio - Fiction/General
- Fiction
- Historical - General
- Sea Stories
- Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology
- Fiction, sea stories
- Aubrey, jack (fictitious character), fiction
- Maturin, stephen (fictitious character), fiction
- Napoleonic wars, 1800-1815, fiction
- Fiction, historical
- Jack Aubrey (Fictitious character)
- Stephen Maturin (Fictitious character)
- Naval History
- Ship captains
- Ship physicians
- Historical fiction
- Seafaring life
- History
- Large type books
- Great Britain. Royal Navy
- Great Britain
- Fiction, historical, general
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
- English literature
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