Master and Commander

By: Patrick O'Brian

ardent, gregarious british naval officer jack aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as commander: the fourteen-gun ship hms sophie. meanwhile—after a heated first encounter that nearly comes to a duel—aubrey and a brilliant but down-on-his-luck physician, stephen maturin, strike up an unlikely rapport. on a whim, aubrey invites maturin to join his crew as the sophie’s surgeon. and so...