{"product_id":"9780006499152","title":"Master and Commander","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): O'Brian, Patrick, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 07\/10\/1996,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 448 pages, 1 Illustrations,\u003cbr\u003e Series: 20th Century Architects, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Harper,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: HarperCollins Publishers,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Historical adventure, Historical fiction\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780006499152\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSet sail for the read of your life... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMaster and Commander is the first of Patrick O'Brian's now famous Aubrey\/Maturin novels,widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ship's surgeon and an intelligence agent. It contains all the action and excitement which could possibly be hoped for in a historical novel, but it also displays the qualities which have put O'Brian far ahead of any of his competitors: his depiction of the detail of life aboard a Nelsonic man-of-war, of weapons, food, conversation and ambience, of the landscape and of the sea. O'Brian's portrayal of each of these is faultless and the sense of period throughout is acute.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis power of characterisation is above all masterly. This brilliant historical novel marked the debut of a writer who grew into one of our greatest novelists ever, the author of what Alan Judd, writing in the Sunday Times, has described as 'the most significant extended story since Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time'.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35022109442201,"sku":"9780006499152","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780006499152.jpg?v=1594320149","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780006499152","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}