The World of Jack Aubrey: Twelve-pounders, Frigates, Cutlasses, and Insignia of His Majesty's Royal Navy

by David Miller (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2003

  $16.03

  Here's a stunningly illustrated guide to the ships, weapons, uniforms, and equipment described in Patrick O'Brian's sequence of 20 popular novels about the 19th-century British Royal Navy officer Jack Aubrey and his surgeon colleague Stephen Maturin. Called the best historical novels every written by The New York Times, the books have sold more than three million copies and inspired the epic film adaptation starring Russell Crowe. A must for any O'Brian enthusiast, this volume boasts striking full-color photographs illustrating a vast array of equipment, medals, weapons, and other objects, and is unique in that many of the featured items are actual battle relics, such as the coat Admiral Nelson wore at the Battle of Trafalgar -- complete with bullet hole.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2003

  $3.55

  Patrick O'Brian's great Aubrey-Maturin novel sequence is extraordinary for its attention to detail; not only does he recreate the language, idioms, and habits of the early C19 in his richly imagined characters of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, but he immerses himself fully in the seafaring world. Everything from the ships and weapons to the geographical territory is factually and skillfully rendered for his readers. Written by an established expert on naval history, The World of Jack Aubrey sets out to describe the naval environment in which these popular novels are set. Naturally, many of the conversations are full of nautical technicalities and dedicated followers will be delighted to find their reading enhanced by accurate information on contemporary ships, sails and sailing, naval weapons, uniforms, enemy navies and piracy.