num_pages: 11
description: The beginning of 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, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly 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.
language: English
title: Master and Commander
titlecomplete: Master and Commander (Aubrey/Maturin, #1)
characters: Stephen Maturin, Jack Aubrey
genres: Adventure, Classics, Historical, Novels, War, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Literature, Fiction, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 56109
series: Aubrey & Maturin
awards: awardedAt: 28800000
name: Booker Prize
category: The Lost Man Booker Prize Longlist
publisher: Books on Tape