Its a good read from the Royal Navy of the Georgian era. A tale of the men who sailed small wooden ships in harms way.

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I really liked this book. It was a bit slow in places, and it used a lot of nautical terms I didn't know, but overall a good story and pretty easy to read. I was pleasantly surprised. It does have some differences from the movie, but most do. Enjoy!

Hard to put down! I had to buy the set.

This, the first in a splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Capt. Aubrey, Royal Navy, and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the offers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.

"The best historical novels every written." NY Times.

The first of the classic series.

The first in the fabulous series.

Great stuff

Great book

good sea yarn, too many technical details for my taste, my heart belongs to Hornblower

Historical novel of the Royal Navy set in the eighteenth century. The improbability of reality nearly over rides the fiction.

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