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The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—by English author Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centring on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, a physician, natural philosopher, and intelligence agent.
Master and Commander is a nautical historical novel by the English author Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1969 in the US and 1970 in the UK.The book proved to be the start of the 20-novel Aubrey–Maturin series, set largely in the era of the Napoleonic Wars, on which O'Brian continued working until his death in 2000.
Molly Harte is Captain Harte's wife, with whom Aubrey has an affair in Port Mahon as a lieutenant and commander, in Master and Commander. Amos Jacob is a Jewish physician, intelligence-agent and naturalist who appears first in The Hundred Days. He is close friends with Maturin, and it is clear that they knew each other long before Dr. Jacob was ...
The books are set in the early 19th century and describe the lives and careers of Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his friend, naval physician and naturalist Dr Stephen Maturin, a man of Irish and Catalan parents. The books are distinguished by O'Brian's deliberate use and adaptation of actual historical events, either integrating his ...
A U.S. serviceman attending a special Department of the Navy screening of Master and Commander. Hoping to draw adults during the film awards seasons, Master and Commander was slated for a release in mid-November 2003. However, the film failed to reach the No. 1 spot on its opening weekend. [8]
While a midshipman aboard HMS Resolution commanded by a friend of General Aubrey's, Captain Douglas, Jack was turned before the mast for hiding a girl aboard the ship. [6] He spent six months as a common seaman before being re-rated as a midshipman. [6] This was when Lord Keith was still Captain Elphinstone, [6] therefore pre-1797.
General Abercrombie: Commander of the invasion army, takes command over Keating. Squadron leaders. Captain Pym: captain of HMS Sirius. Lord Clonfert: Commander of HMS Otter and then post-captain in HMS Néréide. Mr Tomkinson: Lieutenant in HMS Otter who is made Master and Commander of Otter upon the promotion of Clonfert to Néréide.
Captain Randolph Miller – an Army officer who courts Christine Wood. Admiral Lord Leyton – Commander-in-Chief South African squadron who is also uncle of Captain Miller. Lieutenant Harding – First Lieutenant on the Surprise. Horatio Hanson – Acting master on the Surprise and natural son of the Duke of Clarence, the future William IV.