Master and Commander: Patrick O’Brian: Book 1 (Aubrey-Maturin)

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Even when I found out that there was a real ship whose nickname was Cagafuego ("fire-shitter"), I have let the worm of doubt in, and it creeps still. Filming took place on the open sea, on replica ships in the water tanks of Baja Studios, and on the Galápagos Islands.

Stephen Maturin is his unlikely sidekick, confidant and best friend… the ship’s surgeon and an intelligence officer whose doings are not always known to Jack Aubrey. The film omits completely the fact that the doctor and naturalist is also a spy for England—a key plot element in the novels.Taking two broadsides while their own could scarcely penetrate the thick oak of the Acheron the crew decimated and the rudder shot it seems that the Acheron should have been able to maintain close contact, fire more broadsides, perhaps chain and grapeshot and been able to board. I've read a few novels by Tom Clancy, and his tediously detailed accounts of weaponry and military equipment stop narrative momentum cold. Harland/ if you please” seems unrealistic in such situations but it was very common aboard warships of the time.

Century Fox executive Tom Rothman had wished to adapt O'Brian's novels since first reading them, recognizing the potential for a film franchise. Following the privateer south, Surprise rounds Cape Horn and heads to the Galápagos Islands, where the whaling fleet is concentrated.Numerous authors have admired the Aubrey–Maturin series, including Iris Murdoch, Eudora Welty and Tom Stoppard.