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Master & Commander
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Master & Commander
Book 1 of the Aubrey & Maturin series
464 pages · First published 1969
In 1800, Jack Aubrey receives his first command in the Royal Navy and befriends Stephen Maturin, an impoverished physician and natural philosopher he meets after an argument at a musical performance. Maturin joins Aubrey as ship’s surgeon aboard HMS Sophie, where their friendship develops amid patrols, prizes, naval bureaucracy, and combat during the Napoleonic Wars. Aubrey is brilliant at sea but often foolish ashore, while Maturin’s scientific curiosity and inward complexity make him an unusual naval companion. Patrick O’Brian begins the Aubrey–Maturin series with richly detailed historical fiction centered as much on friendship, music, and character as on sailing and battle.
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