3 cassettes / 4 1/2 hours
Read by Robert Hardy
Abridged
AudioBook contains an illustration of the sails of a square-rigged ship .
"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.
- ISBN10 0393339319
- ISBN13 9780393339314
- Publish Date 1 January 2020 (first published 1 May 1972)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 September 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Edition Anniversary edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 464
- Language English