O'Brian's World

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O’Brian’s World: A Reader’s Companion to the Aubrey-Maturin Novels provides a wealth of detailed information about the British navy during the period of the Napoleonic wars, as well as an enormous amount of information about the historical, literary, and social background of the Aubrey-Maturin books. Written by the distinguished eighteenth-century scholar Thomas E. Edwards, the Companion is organized in an easy-to-use format keyed to page numbers in the standard Norton edition of O’Brian’s novels. A series of appendices covesr such subjects as music, religion, geography, the Royal Society, and other topics essential to an appreciation of Patrick O’Brian’s imaginative world.

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