Master and Commander: 01 (Aubrey-Maturin (Audio))

O'Brian, Patrick

ISBN 10: 0786188375 ISBN 13: 9780786188376

Verlag: BLACKSTONE PUB, 2004

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"Earphones Awards winner Simon Vance juggles multiple characters, accents, and dramatic and comedic scenes with aplomb....Vance's warm, welcoming voice captures colorful characters, entertaining relationships....Readers in search of a handful of excellent companions with whom to spend many enjoyable hours will be hail and well met."

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Here is the maiden voyage of O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series, which follows the unique friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent.

It is the dawn of the nineteenth century; Britain is at war with Napoleon's France. When Jack Aubrey, a young lieutenant in Nelson's navy, is promoted to captain, he inherits command of HMS Sophie, an old, slow brig unlikely to make his fortune. But Captain Aubrey is a brave and gifted seaman, his thirst for adventure and victory immense. With the aid of his friend Stephen Maturin, Aubrey and his crew engage in one thrilling battle after another, their journey culminating in a stunning clash with a mighty Spanish frigate against whose guns and manpower the tiny Sophie is hopelessly outmatched.

O'Brian renders in riveting detail the life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy: 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.

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• Verlag: BLACKSTONE PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0786188375
• ISBN 13: 9780786188376
• Einband: CD de audio