Master and Commander is the first book of the 21-book Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian, Jack Aubrey having just been promoted to command of his first ship, the Sophie, and Stephen Maturin, a physician at loose ends regarding his practice, who was hired by Jack as the Sophie’s surgeon. The first book in the series was written in 1969, and it was made into a movie in 2003 staring Russell Crowe. O’Brian died in 2000, and the 21st book was published in 2004. These are naval adventures, and while I’ve now only read the first, I know someone who was quickly hooked on these main characters and he has read them all.
I listened to this book in audio format at the same time I was reading Pitcairn’s Island. Both stories take place in the beginning of the 19th, and they essentially complimented each other in terms of the descriptions of the life of those people who were willing to go on serious adventures at that time of our history. Given some free time, I’d love to dive into O’Brien’s second book, Post Captain.
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