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Patrick O'Brian's Navy | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard O'neill
Publisher: Running Press
Category: Book
List Price: $30.00
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 15724
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 10.7 x 0.9
ISBN: 0762415401
Dewey Decimal Number: 359
EAN: 9780762415403
ASIN: 0762415401
Publication Date: September 3, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: New book, but cover is torn. Fast shipping. May have small remainder mark.
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Product Description
From the moment that Master and Commander, the first of Patrick O'Brian's sequence of 20 novels about the 19th century British Royal Navy officer Jack Aubrey and his surgeon colleague Stephen Maturin, was published in 1970, critics hailed his work as a masterpiece of historical recreation. Called "the best historical novels ever written" by The New York Times, the books have sold more than 3 million copies. This first full-color illustrated companion to the Aubrey-Maturin series, timed to benefit from the release of the blockbuster Twentieth-Century Fox film adaptation starring Russell Crowe, explains the fascinating physical details of Jack Aubrey's fictional world. An in-depth historical reference, it brings to life the political, cultural, and physical setting of O'Brian's novels. Annotated drawings, paintings, and diagrams reveal the complex parts of a ship and its rigging, weaponry, crew quarters and duties, below-deck conditions, and fighting tactics, while maps illustrate the location featured in each novel.
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 GET YOUR SEA LEGS April 27, 2008
Vincent Paul Staley
This book is not just for landlubbers. This old sea dog acquired a lot of new information about the history of sail from this book. I keep it handy when reading the Alan Lewrie Series and the Patrick O'Brien books.
It expands the O'Brian reading experience September 25, 2007
Glenn Travis (Lake Jackson, TX United States)
I feel that it is a must have companion to:
A Sea of Words, Third Edition: A Lexicon and Companion to the Complete Seafaring Tales of Patrick O'Brian.
The books complement each other and in particular to the wonderful illustrations in this book helps to clarify and in places, expand the information that one finds in A Sea of Words.
Perfect company for the 'Sea of Words' September 24, 2007
Stephen Maturin (Adirondack Mtns)
This informative, wonderfully-organized book is presently one of two on my coffee table and is picked up by just about all who visit.
Yes, I have all twenty (twenty-one) of O'Brian's works on Jack Aubrey's travels and travails and this text sets the whole collection off nicely.
Sweet.
 tg September 14, 2007
Terry Gower (Fairfax Station, VA United States)
This is a fine complement to the Aubrey-Maturin series as it brings to life the action, locations, politics, etc about the period when the action took place by artwork, maps, tools, ship information and many other things that you read about but if you have this book when you are reading then it really brings everything to life. Highly recommended. Also recommend the Sea of Words and Harbours and High Seas: 3rd Edition, both by Dean King. The first explains the terms you wonder about when reading the series, and the second includes synopses and tracing of each voyage on maps. These are great.
Beautiful pictures August 22, 2007
L. Zeigler (Utah)
This is a good overall book for visual explanation for the O'Brian series of books. I enjoyed this book, but must admit that I was looking for something more in depth. I haven't seen anything better yet, but will keep hoping that someone will write something even better. There is a lot of ground to cover and although this is a good book, and I would happily purchase it again, I am still looking for more visual information that just doesn't seem to be out there.
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