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Now available in an attractive movie-tie-in jacket for the release of the picture Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World starring Russell Crowe from Motion: This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, sets the friendship between surgeon Captain Aubrey, r.n., and Stephen Maturin, ship and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic War. Details of a living room aboard the good notruf' officers are impeccably displayed: the conversation of the in the room and the men below deck, the food, the flogging, the mysteries of wind and rope, and the roar of their sides as the great close is sent into battle. It is the dawn of the 19th century; Britain is at war with Napoleon of France. When he is promoted to Captain Jack Aubrey, a young lieutenant in Nelson's navy-blue Nelson, he inherits HMS Sophie's command, an old, slow-moving brig unlikely to make his fortune. But Captain Aubrey is a brave and talented sailor, his thirst for adventure and immense Victory. With the help of his ship's friend Stephen Maturin, surgeon and secret intelligence agent, Aubrey and his ship engage in one thrilling battle after another round, their journey in a stunning clash with a mighty Spanish Consular-class cruiser against whose guns and manpower little Sophie is unsurpassed. Por cada 10 membresías que se re utilicen, reforestamos 1 árbol, cumpliendo nuestro desafío de reforestación de más de 10.000 nuevos árboles