Master and Commander (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 1) (Aubrey-Maturin)

3 Cassettes, 4 1/2 hours
Read by Robert Hardy
Abridged
AudioBook contains an illustration of the sails of a square-rigged ship.

The 1st installment in O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series

"The best historical novels ever written..."
-The New York Times Book Review

This, 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.

• Post Captain (Aubrey/Maturin)
• H. M. S. Surprise (Aubrey / Maturin)
• The Mauritius Command (Aubrey/Maturin)
• Desolation Island (Aubrey/Maturin)
• A Sea of Words, Third Edition: A Lexicon and Companion to the Complete Seafaring Tales of Patrick O'Brian
• The Surgeon's Mate (Aubrey/Maturin)
• The Fortune of War (Aubrey / Maturin)
• The Ionian Mission (Vol. Book 8) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
• The Far Side of the World (Vol. Book 10) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
• Treason's Harbour (Vol. Book 9) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)