Good Condition – noticeable cover creasing, corner and edge wear with page tanning. One page creased.
In 1800, newly promoted Captain Jack Aubrey takes command of HMS Sophie and begins pursuing enemy ships across the Mediterranean. A chance meeting brings Irish-Catalan physician and intelligence agent Stephen Maturin aboard as surgeon, beginning one of historical fiction's great friendships. Patrick O'Brian combines vivid naval action with wit, music, politics and precise observation of life at sea. As Aubrey seeks prize money and professional glory, both men navigate danger, rivalry and the strict hierarchies of the Royal Navy in the opening novel of the celebrated Aubrey-Maturin series.
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