Patrick O'Brian's Navy: The Illustrated Companion to Jack Aubrey's World
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (767 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0762415401 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Don't read this if you're reading the series John E. Mosley Others have commented on the content and many glossy illustrations. I want to make one important point: the book gratuitously reveals important plot details and surprises in the Aubrey series. I strongly recommend not reading this book while you are reading the series, but to save it until later (or simply not buy it). I bought the book to learn background information . TGower said tg. 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 Se. "Five Stars" according to pagrest@stockcero.com. Beautiful book. Great reading for sailors.
An in-depth historical reference, it brings to life the political, cultural, and physical setting of O'Brian's novels. 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. 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.. 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 Au
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Although not uniformly well reproduced, the illustrations are outstanding, including many period items, and the book as a whole makes a fine treat O'Brian's many fans. The volume also details the training of officers, fleet actions, frigate actions (prominent in the career of both Cochrane and his avatar) and the role of piracy, slave trading and mutiny in the maritime history of the era. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. However, the book also depicts, in words and pictures, the political background of the Napoleonic Wars, the development of the major navies, the sailors' life at sea (where weather and disease killed far more men than battles did) and the design and construction of the wooden s