num_pages: 459
description: As the Royal Navy takes part in the wars against Napoleonic France, young Jack Aubrey receives his first command, the small, old, and slow HMS Sophie. Accompanied by his eccentric new friend, the physician and naturalist Stephen Maturin, Aubrey does battle with the naval hierarchy, with his own tendency to make social blunders, and with the challenges of forging an effective crew -- before ultimately taking on enemy ships in a vivid, intricately detailed series of sea battles.
language: English
title: Master and Commander
titlecomplete: Master and Commander (Aubrey/Maturin,  #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: W. W. Norton & Company