Master and Commander! And nineteen subsequent books, hurrah for Patrick O'Brian. Basically, the Napoleonic Wars, lots of sea-battles, and also random excursions into espionage and naturalism and Tragic Doomed Love Affairs and behind it all Jack and Stephen and how much they clearly adore each other even when they believe the other one can't be let out of the house alone.
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on 2009-03-27 08:18 pm (UTC)