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MASTER AND COMMANDER [Special edition including bonus book: MEN-OF-WAR] (Hardcover, Special edition)
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MASTER AND COMMANDER [Special edition including bonus book: MEN-OF-WAR] (Hardcover, Special edition)
Series: Aubrey-Maturin, Book 1
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List price R635
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Discovery Miles 4 800
You Save R155 (24%)
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This special hardback edition celebrates the 50th anniversary of
first publication with a brand-new foreword by O'Brian's stepson
and biographer, Nikolai Tolstoy, and artist's note by Geoff Hunt,
and includes the complete text of the previously unavailable
Men-of-War, O'Brian's fascinating guide to the world of
Aubrey/Maturin. Master and Commander is the first of Patrick
O'Brian's now famous Aubrey/Maturin novels, regarded by many as the
greatest series of historical novels ever written. It establishes
the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin,
who becomes his secretive ship's surgeon and an intelligence agent.
It contains all the action and excitement which could possibly be
hoped for in a historical novel, but it also displays the qualities
which have put O'Brian far ahead of any of his competitors: his
depiction of the detail of life aboard a Nelsonic man-of-war, of
weapons, food, conversation and ambience, of the landscape and of
the sea. O'Brian's portrayal of each of these is faultless and the
sense of period throughout is acute. His power of characterisation
is above all masterly. This brilliant historical novel marked the
debut of a writer who has grown into one of the most remarkable
literary novelists now writing, the author of what Alan Judd,
writing in the Sunday Times, has described as 'the most significant
extended story since Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of
Time'.
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