description: The 1st installment in O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series"The best historical novels ever written..."-The New York Times Book ReviewThis, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, Royal Navy, and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: 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 road of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.
language: English
title: Master and Commander
titlecomplete: Master and Commander (Aubrey/Maturin Book 1)
characters: Stephen Maturin, Jack Aubrey
genres: Audiobook, Historical, Historical Fiction, Novels, Literature, Military Fiction, Classics, War, Adventure, Fiction
ratings_count: 56103
series: Aubrey & Maturin
awards: awardedAt: 28800000
name: Booker Prize
category: The Lost Man Booker Prize Longlist
publisher: Random House Audio