![]() I delight in sailing along with Captain Aubrey from my comfortable armchair, plowing through hurricanes and typhoons, avoiding icebergs, clawing off a lee shore in a tempest, even fleeing an erupting volcano in the middle of the ocean. I’ll admit, even with many years of sailing experience, I don’t fully understand all the jargon that describes the maneuvering of these massive ships from 300 years ago, but I do get the gist of it. ![]() The books center on the friendship and adventures of its two main characters: Jack Aubrey, a British naval officer, and Stephen Maturin, the ship’s surgeon, naturalist, and part-time intelligence agent.Īs a sailor, I appreciate the technical portions of driving a tall ship on the open sea. O’Brian passed away in 2000 but left behind a treasure of twenty meticulously researched historical sea novels set in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. ![]() Patrick O’Brian, the author of the Aubrey-Maturin seafaring novels, would have been 104 years old today. ![]()
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