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Original Title:	Patrick O'Brian's Navy: The Illustrated Companion to Jack Aubrey's World
ISBN:	0762415401 (ISBN13: 9780762415403)
Edition Language:	English

Patrick O'Brian's Navy

Richard O'Neill

Hardcover | Pages: 160 pages

Rating: 4.24 | 2045 Users | 29 Reviews

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Title	:	Patrick O'Brian's Navy
Author	:	Richard O'Neill
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	September 4th 2003 by Running Press (first published 2003)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. Reference. War. Military Fiction

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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 millions of copies. This first full-color illustrated companion to the Aubrey-Maturin series, timed to coincide with 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 An in-depth historical reference, it brings to life the political, cultural, and physical setting of O'Brian's novels.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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A nicely informative overview of the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Organization is a little haphazard. For example, the book ends randomly with a chapter on punishment in the navy. Filled out with lots of period paintings and illustrations. There are two appendices - one of naval terms and expressions and another of characters from the Aubrey canon. The latter includes some unnecessary spoilers regarding the ultimate fates of some characters. Could have been

I highly recommend this book if you are feeling a bit lost in nautical terms and the history of the Napoleon Wars and the Royal British Navy at the time. There are some dangerous spoilers, but I learned more than I lost from just having it around for a few weeks to page through as I read the second Aubrey-Maturin, Post Captain. I have just started the third in the series, HMS Surprise, and I was happy to have immediate assistance from the companion to know what was meant by the First Lord and

Great pictorial companion to the O'Brian series.

Comprehensive, well-illustrated, authoritative, readable - and skilfully linked-in to the Aubrey-Maturin stories. This is, indeed, an excellent companion to Jack Aubrey's world. I doubt if there are many readers of Patrick O'Brian's great work who would not find this a useful and welcome source book for much information that sets the scene and describes the context.

Patrick O'Brian is the bedrock for my Mount Rushmore of authors! If you enjoy reading, you will find his books worthy of your time and probably will find them as favorites.

Not as detailed as I would have like it to be. Not even one descent cut-away drawing.

This is an excellent resource not only for the Aubrey/Maturin series, but as an introduction to naval warfare and the seagoing life in the late 18th/early 19th centuries. I particularly appreciated the tables about such things as the actual breakdown of personnel on a Royal Navy ship by rating (how many lieutenants, how many Marines, etc.) and diagrams about how a crew would be broken down into smaller groups aboard ship. Fans of the Aubreyad will appreciate the sidebars relating historical fact