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Master and Commander ( 1971) is a novel by Patrick O'Brian, the first in the Aubrey–Maturin series.
The 2003 film , starring Russell Crowe, is very freely based on this and other books in the Aubrey–Maturin series.
1 Plot Summary
Master and Commander begins on April 18th, 1800 in Port Mahon, Minorca, at the time a base of the Royal Navy. Jack Aubrey is a Lieutenant languishing in port without a ship, Stephen Maturin a penniless half- IrishThe island of Ireland ire in Irish, Airlann in Ulster Scots) is the third-largest island in Europe. It lies on the west side of the Irish Sea, close to the island of Great Britain. It is composed of the Republic of Ireland in the south and Northern Irelan, half- CatalanComunitat Autonoma de Catalunya In detail Capital Barcelona Official languages Spanish and Catalan In Val d'Aran, also Aranese. Area total % of Spain Ranked 6th 32 114 km˛ 6,3% Population Total (2003) % of Spain Density Ranked 2nd 6 506 440 15,6% 190,73/k physicianA physician is a person who practices medicine. In the United States the term physician is traditional and commonly used. In Britain and Australia, the term doctor is more common as physician refers to specialists in internal medicine. Because of the exte and natural philosopher. The two main characters are first set at odds by and then united by a love of music (Aubrey plays the violinThe violin is a stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a fifth apart. It is the smallest and highest-tuned member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola, cello and double bass. The lowest string (and hen, Maturin the celloString instruments Alternate meaning: Cello web browser A cropped image to show the relative size of a cello to a human The cello (also violoncello or cello is a stringed instrument and part of the violin family. The cello is much larger than a violin, an).
The novel introduces these two characters and gives Jack his first command (and promotion to the rank of CommanderCommander is a military rank used in many navies but not generally in armies or air forces. It is below Captain and above Lieutenant-Commander. Formerly the rank was Master and Commander . A Commander in the U. Navy commands a Frigate, Destroyer, Submarin) on a tiny sloop-of-warUSS Constellation, a United States Navy sloop-of-war. In the 18th and 19th century, a sloop-of-war was a small sailing warship with a single gun deck which carried between ten and eighteen cannons. A brig sloop had two masts and a ship sloop had three, be, HMS Sophie. Stephen accepts a position as Sophie's surgeon.
We also meet Pullings and Mowett, who become permanent fixtures in the series, and James Dillon, Sophie's first lieutenant, whose secret background of Irish Republicanism intersects Stephen's own.
The capture of the Spanish xebec- frigate Cacafuego by the greatly inferior Sophie brings Aubrey and his crew great glory and wealth and is based on the capture of the Spanish frigate El Gamo by Thomas Cochrane commanding the sloop Speedy [1].
