McGregor, Tom (2003). The Making of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-05865-4. In the 1960s two of O'Brian's seafaring books for children, The Golden Ocean (1956) and The Unknown Shore (1959), caught the attention of a US publisher, J B Lippincott, who were seeking an author to follow in the footsteps of C S Forester, creator of the Hornblower series of novels. Forester had died in 1966 and a year later, at the age of 53, O'Brian started work on Master and Commander. [1] [21] The novel was first published in the US by Lippincott in 1969. [1] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. November 14, 2003. Archived from the original on October 29, 2020 . Retrieved October 12, 2023.

In the first of the series, during a tour of the rigging, Maturin asked his tourguide if he "could not explain this maze of ropes and wood and canvas without using sea-terms" and the reply came "No, for it is by those names alone that they are known, in nearly every case". [15] And I will quote myself, speaking to a friend: "I was just thinking, hey, I haven't heard from those two guys in a while. The big loud sailor and his naturalist friend. Then I realized the reason why I hadn't heard from them: they are characters in a book. They are fictional. They are not real, however much I want them to be." A Literary Companion to the Film which explores the film's connections to the Aubrey Maturin series Stephen dutifully asks for her hand in marriage and she says……… (oh, c’mon, I’m not giving that away). James D'Arcy". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on January 24, 2021 . Retrieved March 1, 2021.

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a b "The odd couple all at sea". The Telegraph. London. 11 January 1997. Archived from the original on 9 February 2015 . Retrieved 21 February 2010.

The capture of Sophie by Christy-Pallière of the Desaix parallels the experience of Cochrane aboard the Speedy, down to the detail of the real Christy-Pallière refusing to accept the vanquished captain's sword: "I will not accept the sword of an officer who has for so many hours struggled against impossibility". [17]

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Tobias, Scott (January 4, 2019). "Revisiting Hours: Ships Ahoy — 'Master and Commander' ". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on January 17, 2021 . Retrieved February 18, 2021. I will quote my wife here: "I don't care about England, I don't want to know anything about their navy, and I certainly don't give a shit about English naval battles in the 19th century. But once I got started on these books I couldn't stop." Roger Ebert gave the film 4 stars out of 4, saying that "it achieves the epic without losing sight of the human". [18] The Guardian 's Peter Bradshaw praised the film and Crowe's performance. [32] New York Times critic A. O. Scott described the film as "stupendously entertaining". [33] However, Jason Epstein, also writing for The New York Times, criticized the film, taking issue with changes from the novel, Crowe's "one-dimensional action hero", and implausible events in the script. [14]