Patrick O'Brian's The Golden Ocean (1956) and The Unknown Shore (1959) both depict fictional pairs of young men, loosely based on real seamen, who participate in George Anson's voyage around the world. Russell Crowe played the role of Jack Aubrey, and Paul Bettany that of Stephen Maturin. The 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World drew from five books in the series. Forester and other British authors central to English literature.
These novels comprise the heart of the canon of an author often compared to Jane Austen, C. The series received considerable international acclaim, and most of the novels reached The New York Times Best Seller list. The 21st novel of the series, left unfinished at O'Brian's death in 2000, appeared in print in late 2004. The first novel, Master and Commander, was published in 1969 and the last finished novel in 1999. 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.
Literary fiction, nautical fiction, historical fiction Nautical historical novels by Patrick O'Brian
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