This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a 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 roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.
- ISBN10 0375405224
- ISBN13 9780375405228
- Publish Date 4 August 1998 (first published 1 May 1972)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Edition Abridged edition
- Format Audiobook
- Duration 4 hours and 30 minutes
- Language English